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Dale Wasserman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dale Wasserman
(November 2, 1914 – December 21, 2008) was an
American
playwright
.
Early life
Dale Wasserman was born in
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
,
and was orphaned at the age of nine
. He lived in a state orphanage and with an older brother in
South Dakota
before he "hit the rails". He later said:
“
I'm a self-educated hobo. My entire adolescence was spent as a hobo, riding the rails and alternately living on top of buildings on Spring Street in downtown
Los Angeles
. I regret never having received a formal education. But I did get a real education about human nature.
[2]
”
Career
Wasserman worked in various aspects of theatre from the age of 19. His formal education ended after one year of high school in
Los Angeles
. It was there that he started as a self-taught lighting designer, director and producer, starting with musical impresario
Sol Hurok
as stage manager and lighting design and for the
Katherine Dunham Company
, where he invented lighting patterns imitated later in other dance companies. In addition to U.S. cities, he produced and directed abroad in places such as
London
and
Paris
.
In the middle of directing a
Broadway musical
; which he later refused to name; he abruptly walked out, later saying he "couldn't possibly write worse than the stuff [he] was directing", and left his previous occupations to become a writer. "Every other function was interpretive; only the writer was primary."
Matinee Theatre
, the television anthology which presented his first play,
Elisha and the Long Knives
, received a collective
Emmy
for the plays it produced in 1955, the year that
Elisha and the Long Knives
was telecast on that series (it had originally been shown in 1954, on
Kraft Television Theatre
, another anthology). Wasserman wrote some 30 more television dramas, making him one of the better known writers in the
Golden Age of Television
. "Man of La Mancha," which first appeared as a straight play on TV,is frequently and erroneously called "an adaptation" of "Don Quixote": It is not. It is a completely original work that uses scenes from "Don Quixote" to illuminate Miguel Cervantes' life. Don Quixote was Cervantes' Man of La Mancha; it was Cervantes himself who was Dale Wasserman's Man of La Mancha.
Man of La Mancha
ran for five years on
Broadway
and continues worldwide in more than 30 languages.
Dale Wasserman adapted Ken Kesey's novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
into a play also titled
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
which ran for six years in
San Francisco
and has had extensive engagements in
Chicago
,
New York
,
Boston
and other U.S. cities. Foreign productions have appeared in
Paris
,
Mexico
,
Sweden
,
Argentina
,
Belgium
, and
Japan
. Kesey is said to have told Dale that but for the play, the novel would have been forgotten.
Dale Wasserman was a founding member and trustee of The
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
and was the artistic Director of the
Midwest Playwrights Laboratory
, which encompasses 12 states in its program and awards
fellowships
and production to 10
playwrights
yearly.
[
citation needed
]
Recently, research by Howard Mancing, a
Miguel Cervantes
scholar and Professor of Spanish Literature at
Purdue University
, uncovered an earlier use of the line "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe," which were made famous in Wasserman's
Man of La Mancha
. The lines were actually invented for publicity matter that accompanied an earlier stage adaptation of
Don Quixote
by the American playwright
Paul Kester
, first performed in 1908. The phrase "To each his Dulcinea", featured in Wasserman's play, was also first used in the Kester play.
At the time of his death, Dale Wasserman had, arguably, some fine and thought-provoking work ready to be produced: "Players in the Game", set in 1316 Prague, poses the question: Is fiery, incorruptible zealotry necessarily to be preferred to benign corruption. The operative word here being "benign"? ;
"Montmartre,"'
is a musical set in early 20th century Paris, the two main protagonists are Kiki, the most sought-after model of her day (an actual person), and a cynnical mature man being confronted by his idealistic younger self.
Personal life
Reclusive by nature, Wasserman and his wife, Martha Nelly Garza, made their home in
Arizona
("because it's the one State which refuses to adopt
Daylight Saving Time
"). Dale's first marriage, to actress Ramsay Ames ended in divorce, He married Martha Nelly in 1984. She survires him, is his executrix/executor and holds the rights to all his work.
Wasserman died of
heart failure
on December 21, 2008 in Arizona, aged 94.
[3]
[4]
Works
Plays
·
1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
was based on a 1962
novel
by
Ken Kesey
. In 1975 it was made into an
Academy Award
-winning
film
. Wasserman and star
Jack Nicholson
have
contrasting remembrances
of the original production. Although Wasserman adapted
Ken Kesey
's
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
for the American stage in 1963, his playscript was not used as the basis for the film, and Wasserman did not write the movie screenplay.
·
2001
How I Saved the Whole Damn World
— A sailor on a drunken spree welds items from a junkyard into the mast of his ship. A plane flying overhead explodes, creating an all-powerful weapon and, indirectly,
world peace
.
·
Boy On Blacktop Road
— An investigation takes place related to the arrival and subsequent disappearance of a young boy.
The latter two plays comprise the World Premiere of
Open Secrets
which opened In June 2006 at the
Rubicon Theatre Company
in
Ventura, California
.
Musical theatre
·
1966
Man of La Mancha
(music by
Mitch Leigh
and lyrics by
Joe Darion
) won multiple
Tony Awards
, including
Best Musical
, and is among the longest-running
Broadway
musicals of all time. Originally written for television as a non-musical titled
I, Don Quixote
.
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