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Dale Wasserman (November 2, 1914 – December 21, 2008) was an American playwright, [1] perhaps best known for his book, Man of La Mancha.
Dec 27, 2008 · Dale Wasserman, an autodidact who became the playwright responsible for two Broadway hits of the 1960s, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Man of La Mancha,” died on Sunday at his home in...
Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Man of La Mancha” and the stage version of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...
Jan 7, 2009 · The playwright Dale Wasserman adapted Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as a Broadway play in 1963, and wrote the libretto for one of New York's...
Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Man of La Mancha” and the stage version of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...
Dec 21, 2008 · Dale Wasserman was an American playwright. His protagonists are a bit like Wasserman himself: raffish rebels, fiercely independent fools—poets, madmen and misfits—societal outcasts who defy authority and "tilt at windmills," reluctant heroes (sometimes anti-heroes), who are called upon to make some extraordinary sacrifice in ...
In demand on stage and screen, Wasserman’s main legacy lies in his adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which was filmed in 1975. He also wrote the teleplay I, Don Quixote (1959) and the libretto for Man of La Mancha, itself filmed in 1972.