{"id":531185,"date":"2026-03-10T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/531185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:15:13","slug":"cycling-legend-gino-bartalis-story-becomes-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/531185\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Legend Gino Bartali’s Story Becomes a Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can cycling and theater come together for one great experience? Glory Ride and Delaware Theater Company thing so.<\/p>\n

Glory Ride is the story of Tour de France champion Gino Bartali<\/a>. Bartali was a legendary Italian cyclist who opposed the fascist regime of Mussolini. In a time when few spoke out against the dictator for fear of their lives, Bartali was openly critical.<\/p>\n

\"Glory<\/a>
\nPhotos by Matt Urban<\/p>\n

Like most men his age during World War 2, Bartali received the call to serve in the Italian military. Since he was already a famous cyclist \u2013 he\u2019d already won the Tour by then \u2013 Bartali served as a courier on, you guessed it, his bike.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just military documents he delivered. With forged documents smuggled into the frame of his bike, Bartali helped save thousands of innocent lives.<\/p>\n

Now, the musical Glory Ride tells Bartali\u2019s story. A father-daughter duo, Victoria and Todd Buchholz, wrote Glory Ride, and Michael Bello is the Director. It hit the stage on February 25 and will run for only a few more weeks.<\/p>\n

\"Glory<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Glory<\/a>
\nRehearsal<\/p>\n

The remaining shows are:<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 12 at 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

Friday, March 13 at 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 PM<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 15 at 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

Delaware Theater Company holds the performances in Wilmington, Delaware. For tickets and more information, visit delawaretheater.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support us! Bikerumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More Can cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,1571,80143,2328,6342,144844,85,2845],"class_list":["post-531185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-history","tag-italian","tag-italy","tag-performance","tag-road-bike","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}