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Based on The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, Dear World was to be a big deal, with a score by Jerry Herman and a book by the adaptors of Mame three years before, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It also starred the glittering Angela Lansbury, but unfortunately, Mame it was not. In its belabored plot, the three local Madwomen help two lovers in search of each other while exposing a scheme to drill for oil under the streets of Paris. Lansbury got great support from Jane Connell, Carmen Mathews, and Milo O’Shea, but neither the stars, nor the score, nor the story connected with the audience, and the show, which opened at the Mark Hellinger in February 1969, closed after only 132 performances. First LP release: February 1969. 

Track List:

1. Overture

2. The Spring Of Next Year

3. Each Tomorrow Morning

4. I Don't Want To Know

5. I've Never Said I Love You

6. Garbage

7. Dear World

8. Ballet

9. Kiss Her Now

10. The Tea Party

11. And I Was Beautiful

12. Each Tomorrow Morning (Reprise)

13. One Person

14. Finale