Think what you want about me, but one of my great literary heroes is none other than the idealistic Don Qixote, Man of La Mancha, and I just adore the music from the Broadway show and subsequent film.
Israel Zwick did a great job in his very serious "parody," The Impossible Dream.
To give you just a "taste" of it, here's the theme song:
Rebbe of the Menchen
Adapted from “Man of La Mancha”
Lyrics by Joe Darion, Music by Mitch Leigh
Hear me now, Oh thou
bleak and unbearable world
Thou art based and debauched as can be
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Dovid Chaim, the Rebbe of the Menchen
Destroyer of evil am I
I will march to the sound of the Shofars of glory
Forever to conquer or die.
Hear me heathens, and wizards and serpents of sin
All your dastardly doings are past
For a holy endeavor is now to begin
And virtue shall triumph at last!
I am I, Dovid Chaim, the Rebbe of the Menchen,
My destiny calls and I go
And the wild winds of fortune
will carry me onward
Oh whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow
Onward to glory I go.
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