Dear World
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The Paris madwoman, Countess Aurelia (Angela Lansbury), one day discovers that there are some greedy, unpleasant people in the world so with her cohort the Sewerman and the approval of her looney friends Gabrielle (Jane Connell) and Constance (Carmen Mathews), Aurelia passes judgment on the villains of the world and sends them to their death in her cellar.
- Opened
- 1969
- Performances
- 132
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1969 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Original. February 6, 1969 · Peter Glenville | 132 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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Mathews appeared in Dear World, which won the Pulitzer Prize. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p185
Jerry Herman, who had enjoyed two smashes in the 1960s Hello, Dolly! and Mame—came up with a clinker named Dear World (1969), based on the sparkling play The Madwoman of Chaillot. Angela Lansbury won a Tony Award for her performance and that was the only redeeming feature of this pretentious musical. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p312
Lansbury, Herman, and Mame librettists Lawrence and Lee teamed up again for Dear World (2/6/69), a musical version of Jean Giradoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p263
JERRY HERMAN followed his string of hits—Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly! and Mame—with a failure, Dear World (2/6/69; 112 performances). Based on Jean Giraudoux’s play The Madwoman of Chaillot, the Alexander Cohen production featured the stars of Mame, Angela Lansbury and Jane Connell, as well as Milo O’ Shea, Kurt Peter… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p355
Then came her biggest smash (comparatively speaking) as one of the madwomen in Jerry Herman’s Dear World (1969), which managed a 132-per-formance run. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p121
AFTER THE SMASH HITS /ello, Dolly! and Mame, Jerry Herman had a series of disappointments with Dear World, Mack and Mabel, and The Grand Tour. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p183
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