NewsPHOTO RECAP: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Opens on Broadway; Arrivals, Curtain Call and PartyOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, has been reincarnated for star Harry Connick Jr. The revised revival opened on Broadway Dec. 11, 2011 following previews from Nov. 12 at the St. James Theatre.
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Matthew Blank
December 11, 2013
Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and playwright Peter Parnell (QED) were behind the re-thought romantic musical comedy with a score by lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Burton Lane.
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PHOTO RECAP: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Opens on Broadway; Arrivals, Curtain Call and Party
Here's how the producers characterize the romantic musical comedy: "Love blooms in unexpected places in the delightfully reimagined world of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Still in love with his deceased wife, Dr. Mark Bruckner (Harry Connick, Jr.), a dashing psychiatrist and professor, unknowingly takes on the case of his life with David Gamble (David Turner), a quirky young florists' assistant. While putting David under hypnosis to help him quit smoking so he can move in with his perfect boyfriend Warren (David Gehling), Dr. Bruckner stumbles upon what he believes to be David’s former self — a dazzling and self-possessed 1940s jazz singer Melinda Wells (Jessie Mueller). Instantly intrigued by Melinda, Dr. Bruckner finds himself swept up in the pursuit of an irresistible (and impossible) love affair with this woman from another time and place, who may or may not have ever existed."
The score includes the songs "Come Back To Me," "What Did I Have That I Don't Have Now?," "She Isn't You," and the title song, plus "Love With All the Trimmings" and "Go to Sleep," as well as "Ev'ry Night at Seven," "You're All the World To Me," "Open Your Eyes" and "Too Late Now."
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