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
Sally Beauman Sunday Telegraph Magazine". She worked as an investigative journalist, interviewer and critic for many leading publications in Britain and the US, including "The New Yorker". It was an article about the work of Daphne du Maurier in this magazine that eventually led to her writing "Rebecca's Tale", her companion novel to du Maurier's "Rebecca". She wrote an early appreciation of Monique Wittig's second novel, "Les Guérillères", in "The New York Times Book Review". The book was published in France in the wake of the 1968 upheavals, but was not available to English readers until the 1971 translation. Beauman's first work