Cassidy Carol Channing Rita Coolidge Billy De Wolfe Roberta Flack Rosey Grier Dustin Hoffman Michael Jackson Kris Kristofferson Robert Morse The New Seekers Tom Smothers Cicely Tyson Voices of East Harlem Dionne Warwick Summary As a group of children frolic on a carousel, the titular song by the New Seekers plays in the background. In a hospital, infant depictions of Thomas and Brooks debate their genders. Flack and Jackson perform "When We Grow Up" while enacting children playing. Baby Thomas and Brooks watch adults and discuss them. Thomas and Belafonte take on various jobs performing "Parents Are People." Thomas tells a story about a pretty girl who always goes first, until she gets eaten by tigers. During a bath, Thomas and Brooks overhear a grown-up doing baby talk. Thomas, Morse, and De Wolfe talk about how Dudley Pippin got in trouble but ended up getting cheered up by the principal. Grier performs "It's All Right to Cry" while many people crying is shown. Thomas and Alda sing about a boy named William who wants a doll. Thomas and Brooks sing a song about babies after they don't like the lullaby. A retelling of Atalanta performed by Alda and Thomas. Warwick sings "The Sun and the Moon" with many paintings of the sun and moon shown. Hoffman reads compositions by Jules Siegel. Smothers sings "Helping", a poem by Shel Silverstein. Thomas talks to children about having a sibling, then the Voices of East Harlem perform "Sisters and Brothers." Tyson reads "Three Wishes" by Lucille Clifton, a folktale about a girl who gets three wishes after finding a penny with her birth year on New Year's Day. Thomas, Kristofferson, and Coolidge sing "Circle of Friends" with their friends. Baby Brooks and Thomas bid each other farewell as they are taken away to live their own lives. The children on the horses return to the carousel. Track listing (New York Cast album) Some material here is left out of the TV special and vice versa while other material appears only in the accompanying hardcover book. Act One "Free to Be... You and Me" – Music by Stephen J. Lawrence, lyrics by Bruce Hart, performed by The New Seekers "Boy Meets Girl" – Written by Carl Reiner and Peter Stone, performed by Mel Brooks and Marlo Thomas "When We Grow Up" – Music by Stephen J. Lawrence, lyrics by Shelly Miller, performed by Roberta