| I can't swear to this but I think that guitar opening to Man of La Mancha was there from the beginning, or at least from the Broadway opening night. The Guitarist was in the opening night cast list, and the condensation in the 1965-66 Best Plays mentions a guitar playing in the opening sequence. It may be that it was, as you suggest, improvised early in the run and then later set, but something was there. Perhaps some financial arrangement had to be made with the original guitarist, and that's why it was not in the first publication of the score. |
