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Ambassador is a musical with a book by Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and music by Don Gohman. It is based on the 1903 Henry James novel The Ambassadors. Synopsis Lewis Lambert Strether experiences a clash of cultures when he journeys to 1906 Paris to find his fiancée's wayward son and bring him back to America to take his rightful place as heir to the family fortune. The strait-laced Strether's mission falls by the wayside when he finds the openness of the European lifestyle far more attractive than his stifling existence and comes to the realization the only rescue the young man requires is from the values of his manipulative mother. Production history The show was first produced at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on October 19, 1971, and ran for 86 performances. The production was directed by Stone Widney, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, and starred Howard Keel as Lewis Lambert Strether, Danielle Darrieux as Marie de Vionnet, Margaret Courtenay as Amelia Newsome, Judith Paris as Sarah, and Blain Fairman as Bilham. The show had its American premiere at Philadelphia's La Salle Music Theatre in June 1972 with no cast members from either the London or Broadway productions. The local cast had the benefit of the creators' input as they rewrote and revised for the production. In particular, several new opening scenes and numbers were tried out for what was then considered the plot problem: "get the boy to Paris". A couple of new numbers were tested for the show.

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“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 72 (originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book).
“Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.”
— Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), , p. 58
“Although the expression “citizen diplomacy” was coined in the late 20th century, in fact some 2,200 years before the word existed Guiguzi had already established the fundamental principle that diplomacy and promoting peace between the states [and between other kinds of parties] is not a profession, but a skill acquired through self-cultivation.”
— Massimo Introvigne, "The Chinese Ethos of Citizen Diplomacy, from Guiguzi to Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (2022)
“May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions.”
— Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, After the Battle of Waterloo (1815).
“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”
— Scott Ritter, in Chris Davis, "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.", Memphis Flyer (May 3, 2008).
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
— Zhou Enlai, Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".

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Notable quotes

“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 72 (originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book).
“Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.”
— Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), , p. 58
“Although the expression “citizen diplomacy” was coined in the late 20th century, in fact some 2,200 years before the word existed Guiguzi had already established the fundamental principle that diplomacy and promoting peace between the states [and between other kinds of parties] is not a profession, but a skill acquired through self-cultivation.”
— Massimo Introvigne, "The Chinese Ethos of Citizen Diplomacy, from Guiguzi to Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (2022)
“May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions.”
— Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, After the Battle of Waterloo (1815).
“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”
— Scott Ritter, in Chris Davis, "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.", Memphis Flyer (May 3, 2008).
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
— Zhou Enlai, Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".

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