![]() ![]() ![]() Mostel created a minor brouhaha during the production when he refused to smash any props during the rehearsal of his transformation scene – the actor claimed he had an aversion to destroying property. Zero Mostel, who starred in the 1961 Broadway production of the play, recreated his role as the man who turns into a Rhinoceros. Tom O'Horgan, a theater director best known for his staging of the original Broadway production of the musical Hair, directed Rhinoceros. A new music score by Galt MacDermot was created for the film and a dream sequence was added to the story. ![]() The setting was switched from France to a contemporary United States, complete with a photograph of President Richard Nixon that was comically venerated and the lead characters Bérenger and Jean were renamed Stanley and John. In adapting Ionesco’s play, several changes were made to the original text. ![]()
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