The run closed May 31, 1969
- Opened
- February 6, 1969
- Closed
- May 31, 1969
- Performances
- 132
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Mark Hellinger Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 154th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Bruce Becker
Toney Brealond
Jane Coleman
Michael Davis
Jack Davison
Jacque Dean
Richard Dodd
Miguel Godreau
John Grigas
Marian Haraldson
Tony Juliano
Charles Karel
Gene Kelton
Zale Kessler
Carolyn Kirsch
William Larsen
Urylee Leonardos
Joe Masiell
Ty Mcconnell
Larry Merritt
Ruth Ramsey
Orrin Reiley
Patsy Sabline
Connie Simmons
Margot Travers
Gene Varrone
Charles Welch
Mary Zahn
Peter Walker
8 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Glenville
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
He next did the scores for two of the biggest hits of the sixties, Hello, Dolly!
- Mathews appeared in Dear World, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 185
- 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. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 312
- 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. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 263
- 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… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 355
- 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. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 121
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Dear World at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.