Angela Lansbury as the Countess Aurelia in "Dear World" (1969). Photo by Friedman-Abeles.March 17, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler "I was terribly spoiled," Jerry Herman once said. "I thought you just wrote a musical and it ran for seven years." Can you blame the man? In 1969, with the opening of Dear World, Herman held the honor as the first of only two composer-lyricists to ever have three s…
