Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever has generally been regarded as a problem musical since its debut on Broadway in 1965. This opinion may change with the “reconceived” version directed by Michael Mayer. The “revisal” of On a Clear Day enhances the score with Lane’s music from the 1970 movie adaptation (which starred Barbra Streisand) and the 1951 movieRoyal Wedding, and it introduces a new book by playwright Peter Parnell. Harry Connick Jr. (who starred in the 2006 revival of The Pajama Game) plays a psychiatrist who is helping a patient to quit smoking through hypnosis. In this version’s significant gender-bending change, the patient is now a young gay man who regresses under treatment into a past life as a female jazz singer from the 1940s..
Now the weird part. Harry falls in love with Melinda - the female jazz singer alter ego of the gay lead...