This is the very good recording of the revised "Dear World", with cut songs restored and a chamber orchestra arrangement much more in keeping with the material. Maureen McGovern is very good, and this recording came to me sounding like it was from a scratchy LP, though since it was recorded in 2002 that is unlikely. Hopefully the full recording, which is live but obviously off the soundboard, will be issued. In this revised version, it's certainly a show worth producing. The much and properly to my ears maligned title song and "One Person", added at the original producers' insistence for a more commercial 'sound', are used here nearly as one song and also used more dramatically than seems apparent from the original recording. Also hoping that there are preview tapes of Angela Lansbury singing the cut songs, it was one of her great roles.

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