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Inigo Montoya On Broadway

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PrincessbrideLast night I watched the movie The Princess Bride for the 137th time.  It just never gets old.  While the entire star-studded cast of The Princess Bride (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Christopher Guest, Peter Falk, Wallace Shawn, Carol Kane, Fred Savage) is uniformly fantastic, it is hard to imagine a better role for Mandy Patinkin ("My name is Inigo Montoya . . . you killed my father . . . prepare to die!").  And, yet, I recently learned of the ultimate role for Tony Award winning vocal powerhouse Patinkin.  With any luck he will reprise the role of Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride on Broadway.

That’s right, word has it that William Goldman, the author of the book The Princess Bride, and Adam Guettel, 2005 Tony Award winner for his music to Light in the Piazza, are teaming up to bring The Princess Bride to Broadway.  Guettel has Broadway in his blood — he is the grandson of Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame) and the son of Mary Rogers (of Once Upon a Mattress fame).  And Goldman’s storytelling credentials are hard to beat — he penned the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President’s Men, Marathon Man, and, of course, The Princess Bride.  The combination should be fantastic.  I know I’ll be heading to New York as soon as The Princess Bride opens on Broadway.