Oh, Dear
The 1969 Jerry Herman musical Dear World, based on the play The Madwoman of Chaillot – later made into a movie with Katharine Hepburn -- starred Angela Lansbury. It was a flop, running only 132 performances, however Lansbury won the Tony Award, and the show has some wonderful songs in it (as well as another fun, Jerry Herman title song), and may be the most “adventurous” of his scores, going off in some challenging directions, including a long sequence called “The Tea Party” that ends up having three separate, interesting songs overlap with one another.
Last year, the Encores! group in New York – which puts on semi-staged, limited runs of lesser-known shows -- did a production of the show, that starred Tony-winner Donna Murphy. This is a video of two good songs. The first is “Tomorrow Morning” (that cuts off early, as the chorus is about to join in), and the second is “I Don’t Want to Know.”
Oh, okay, I’m also going to post a finale, of sorts: a very short video of the curtain call – not for the bows, though, but because 55-seconds into the video the cast sings one chorus of the title song, which I like.
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