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Dear World

This musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux’s play The Madwoman of Chaillot is a haunting, delicate charmer celebrating life, passion and madness.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical - Angela Lansbury (1969)
Adapted from Jean Giraudoux’s play The Madwoman of Chaillot, Dear World is a haunting, delicate and charming musical celebrating life, passion and madness. A Tony award winner for its original leading lady Angela Lansbury, the musical features some of Jerry Herman’s most beloved songs, including “Kiss Her Now,” “Each Tomorrow Morning,” “I’ve Never Said I Love You,” “I Don't Want To Know” and the title song.

Premiere Production: Dear World opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on February 6, 1969, and played for 122 performances, starring Angela Lansbury and Milo O'Shea. This revised version of the show opened at the Sundance Theatre in Utah in June of 2002, starring Maureen McGovern as the Countess Aurelia.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • THE COUNTESS AURELIA – the Madwoman of Chaillot
    MME. CONSTANCE – the Madwoman of Passy
    MME. GABRIELLE – the Madwoman of St. Sulpice
    THE SEWERMAN – an elegant slob with superb manners, the authority on underground Paris
    NINA – a waitress at the Café Francis
    JULIAN – a young assistant to the Presidents
    THE SERGEANT – a Police Officer assigned to Chaillot, near the Seine
    THE WAITER AT THE CAFÉ FRANCIS
    THE MUTE – a young street urchin
    PRESIDENT NUMBER ONE – The International Substrate of Paris, Inc.
    PRESIDENT NUMBER TWO – The International Substrate of Paris, Inc.
    PRESIDENT NUMBER THREE – The International Substrate of Paris, Inc.
    THE PROSPECTOR – a Cassius-like cadaver of a man in an oversized raincoat

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Lib-Vocal Book

    		$24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    13 x Prompt Books for Actors
    13 x Vocal Parts
    1 x Prompt Book
    1 x Piano-Conductor's Score

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    1 Reed (Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bass Clarinet)
    1 Horn
    1 Violin (One Player)
    1 Cello (One Player)
    1 Bass
    1 Keyboard Synthesizer
    1 Percussion
    Piano (Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal material)

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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