Rebecca (musical) Rebecca (musical) Rebecca is a German-language musical based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was written by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), the authors of the musicals "Elisabeth", "Mozart!" and "Marie Antoinette". The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who
Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) her "best work," New American Library announced in April 2004 that it would not be republishing the book after all. In a February 9, 2005 interview on NPR with Terry Gross, Cheney denied that "Sisters" contained a lesbian relationship. Cheney suggested that the relationship between the two characters was in question and a historical mystery. She also suggested that "Sisters" was her one bad book, written in an "attempt to take the novel "Rebecca" (by Daphne du Maurier) and put it in a Western setting." In an interview that took place on October 27, 2006 with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's