"DEAR WORLD" AND IT'S CONNECTIONS
"RADIATING GRACE"--Blog # 4 "Dear World' and It's Connections by Desiree de Angelise" "Dear World" is one of my favorite musicals, which I discovered when I was working in a campus library, shortly after we moved from California to Wisconsin. Jerry Herman, who wrote music for "Mame," "Hello, Dolly," and more recently, "La Cage..." wrote the music for "Dear World". He had discovered Giraudoux' "Madwoman"... when he was a student and acted in it and loved it. While "Dear World" was nothing like his other successes, he is quoted in the information in the cd, as saying, that "Dear World" is "one of his favorites." It is easy to see why given the "Madwoman" plot and his music, such as "One Person," "Dear World" and "Tomorrow Morning" alone. He also created a complicated three-part harmony for the "Madwo