First Look: Tyne Daly Takes the Stage in the Mad, Passionate Tale DEAR WORLD
The 1969 musical Dear World with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, new version by David Thompson (based on an adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, starring 6-time Emmy® Award and Tony® Award-winner Tyne Daly (Gypsy) as Countess Aurelia. The final presentation of the three shows in the Winter 2017 Musicals in Mufti Series features Alison Fraser (March of the Falsettos) as Constance, Ann Harada (Avenue Q) as Gabrielle,and Lenny Wolpe (Wicked) as The Sewerman, with Dewey Caddell (Finian's Rainbow) as The Sergeant, J. Bernard Calloway (Memphis) as President 2, Ben Cherry (Fiddler on the Roof) as The Waiter, Stephen Mo Hanan (Jolson & Co.) as President 3, Erika Henningsen (LES MISERABLES) as Nina, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music) as Julian, Peter Land (My Fair Lady) as President 1, Gordon Stanley (Ragtime) as The Prospector, and Kristopher Thompson-Bolden (The Nutty Professor) as The Mute. Stage Manager is Kimothy Cruse, with Assistant Stage Manager Shanna Allison. Directed by Michael Montel(director of twenty preview Musicals in Mufti presentations including Dear World, Take Me Along, and A Time for Singing), with music direction by Christopher McGovern (Cagney). PerCasting for the series is by Geoff Josselson.
Performances continue through March 5, 2017 at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Opening night is Sunday evening, February 26, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to popular demand, a special added performance has been scheduled for Sunday evening, March 5, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
The Winter 2017 series concludes with Dear World, book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, new version by David Thompson (based on an adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, starring 6-time Emmy® Award and Tony® Award-winner Tyne Daly as Countess Aurelia. When a group of businessmen scheme to drill for oil in Paris, there is only one force in the world that can stop them: Countess Aurelia, the Madwoman of Chaillot. With the help of idealism, love, and poetry-not to mention two other madwomen, a local sewerman, and a pair of young lovers-the Countess fights to save Paris and the world from greed. With Dear World's opening on Broadway in 1969, Mr. Herman became the first composer-lyricist to have three productions simultaneously running on Broadway, and for her performance 2015 Oscar Hammerstein Honoree Angela Lansbury received the second of her five Tony® Awards. The York Theatre Company's acclaimed Musicals in Mufti series of musical theatre gems, performed in a simply-staged, book-in-hand concert format, celebrates its twenty-second historic year of shows from the past that deserve a second look. Mufti means "in street clothes, without the trappings associated with a full production."
Photo Credit: Ben Strothmann
Tyne Daly
Alison Fraser
Ann Harada
Alison Fraser, Tyne Daly, Ann Harada
Tyne Daly, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Peter Land, Gordon Stanley, J. Bernard Calloway, Stephen Mo Hanan
Tyne Daly, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden
Tyne Daly, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Erika Henningsen
Ben Cherry, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Erika Henningsen, Tyne Daly, Lenny Wolpe, Dewey Caddell
Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Erika Henningsen, Ben Cherry, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Lenny Wolpe, Tyne Daly
Ann Harada, Tyne Daly, Alison Fraser
Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Ann Harada, Tyne Daly, Alison Fraser
Dewey Caddell, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Ben Cherry, Tyne Daly, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Alison Fraser, Ann Harada
Tyne Daly
Gordon Stanley, Peter Land, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Stephen Mo Hanan, J. Bernard Calloway
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Tyne Daly
Lenny Wolpe, Dewey Caddell
Lenny Wolpe, Dewey Caddell, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Erika Henningsen, Alison Fraser, Tyne Daly, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Ann Harada, Ben Cherry
Alison Fraser, Lenny Wolpe
Curtain Call â€" Tyne Daly and Company
Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, J. Bernard Calloway, Stephen Mo Hanan, Peter Land, Gordon Stanley, Alison Fraser, Tyne Daly, Ann Harada, Lenny Wolpe, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Dewey Caddell, Erika Henningsen, Ben Cherry
