Dear World [Original Broadway Cast]

by Dear World / O.C.R.

Overview

Dear World, a 1969 musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's play The Madwoman of Chaillot (which had been a Broadway hit in the late '40s as translated by Maurice Valency), brought together many of the principals from the 1966 hit Mame, including composer Jerry Herman, book writers Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and star Angela Lansbury. But all of them seem to have been going for something off-beat, rather than another big commercial success. The anti-establishment theme, with its questioning of whether those thought to be insane aren't really saner than the rest of us, must have seemed timely. (The play was also adapted into a movie in the same year as the show.) And Lansbury, for one, had actually addressed something similar five years earlier with Stephen Sondheim's flop Anyone Can Whistle. But Sondheim might have made a better choice for songwriter than Herman, who was able to get into the material only to the extent of lamenting for an earlier time when life was glamorous, unlike the late '60s, when the clash between counterculture dissidents and the corporate establishment seemed to represent a choice between two evils. Herman gamely used plenty of French-sounding accordion music and wrote a title song that was clearly intended to have the same pop appeal as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mame," as well as one of his trademark march songs, "One Person." He also came up with the seven-minute "The Tea Party," a colloquy among crazy women that was far from his usual style. But he was most at home, and most successful, with the sentimental ballad "And I Was Beautiful" and the defiant waltz "I Don't Want to Know," in which the madwoman rejects reality because, well, it just isn't fabulous enough. Dear World was a bad mix of talented creators and good source material that just weren't suited to each other. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/1992
Label:	Sony Classical
UPC:	0074644822021
Rank:	97854

Tracks

1. Dear World, musical~Overture
2. Dear World, musical~The Spring Of Next Year
3. Dear World, musical~Each Tomorrow Morning
4. Dear World, musical~I Don't Want To Know
5. Dear World, musical~I've Never Said I Love You
6. Dear World, musical~Garbage
7. Dear World, musical~Dear World
8. Dear World, musical~Ballet
9. Dear World, musical~Kiss Her Now
10. Dear World, musical~The Tea Party
11. Dear World, musical~And I Was Beautiful
12. Dear World, musical~Each Tomorrow Morning (Reprise)
13. Dear World, musical~One Person
14. Dear World, musical~Finale

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Original Broadway Cast   Primary Artist
Milo O'Shea   Primary Artist
Zale Kessler   Primary Artist
Clifford Fearl   Primary Artist
Joe Masiell   Primary Artist
Kurt Peterson   Primary Artist,Vocals
Charles Karel   Primary Artist
Angela Lansbury   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Vocals
Jane Connell   Primary Artist,Vocals
William Larsen   Primary Artist,Vocals
Carmen Mathews   Primary Artist
Charles Welch   Primary Artist
Pamela Melanie Hall   Primary Artist
Don Pippin   Conductor,Musical Director

Technical Credits

Trevor Rabin   Composer
John Kander   Composer
Angela Lansbury   Cast
Jerry Ross   Composer
Oliver Smith   Scenic Design
William Larsen   Cast
Philip J. Lang   Orchestration
Bruce Becker   Cast
Milo O'Shea   Cast
John Taliaferro   Cast
Jerry Adler   Production Supervisor
Wolfgang Steuhl   Translation,Liner Note Translation
Zale Kessler   Cast
Mary Zahn   Cast
Fay Gage   Artwork
Urylee Leonardos   Cast
Clifford Fearl   Cast
Joe Masiell   Cast
Larry Merritt   Cast
Dorothea Freitag   Arranger
Kurt Peterson   Cast
Carmen Mathews   Cast
Jerry Herman   Composer,Lyricist
Don Pippin   Vocal Arrangement
George Gershwin   Composer
Geoffrey Burgon   Composer
Janet Gari   Composer
Jane Connell   Cast
David Shire   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Richard Dodd   Cast
Michel Legrand   Composer
Thomas Z. Shepard   Producer,Remixing,Reissue Producer,Reissue Remixing
Harold Rome   Composer
Miklos Rozsa   Composer
Pam Hall   Cast
Stan Freberg   Composer
Stephen Schwartz   Composer
Richard Adler   Composer
Joe Layton   Choreographer,Production Director
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Mark Mancina   Composer
Fred Lombardi   Photography
Charles Welch   Cast
Tony Juliano   Cast
Gene Varrone   Cast
Gene Kelton   Cast
Hildy Parks   Associate Producer
Jean Giraudoux   Story
Genevieve Haines   Translation,Liner Note Translation
Anna Saxon-Forti   Translation
Maurice Valency   Story Adaptation
Patsy Sabline   Cast
Charles Karel   Cast
Jane Coleman   Cast
Ted Agress   Cast
Ruth Ramsey   Cast
Jacque Dean   Cast
Nicole Barth   Cast
Jerome Lawrence   Book
Charles Burr   Liner Notes
Marc Kirkeby   Liner Notes
Francis Pierce   Reissue Engineer,Reissue Remixing
Robert E. Lee   Book
Carolyn Kirsch   Cast
Jack Davison   Cast