Toward the long-awaited end of the new semirevival of ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,'' which opened on Sunday at the St. James Theater, an eminent psychiatrist proposes that what we have been watching was perhaps only ''my own psychoneurotic fantasy.'' Now, I don't have a medical degree, but might I propose an alternate diagnosis? It seems...
When the musical ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' opened on Broadway in 1965, the main character was Daisy Gamble, a daffy young woman who turned out to be the reincarnation of a 18th-century English aristocrat named Melinda Wells. The show's composer, Burton Lane, wrote lush melodies to reflect the dreamy Daisy, while Alan Jay Lerner's...
In most productions of ''Camelot,'' the character of Mordred, the evil spawn of King Arthur and a sorceress who seduced him in his youth, is a footnote. Usually, he's barely remembered by theatergoers and mentioned only briefly in reviews; in the movie version, he was stripped of his two big numbers. In the stage musical, he doesn't even appear...
Alan Jay Lerner (31. august 1918 i New York City
- 14. juni 1986 i New York)
var en amerikansk musicalforfatter, der blandt andet skrev My Fair Lady.
En lang række af hans sange regnes blandt de bedste amerikanske standards.
Sammen med komponisten Frederick Loewe skrev Lerner foruden My Fair Lady musicalsene Brigadoon (1947), Paint your wagon (1951), Gigi og Camelot (1960).
I sin tidligere karriere skrev han Love Life fra 1948 med Kurt Weill som komponisten.
Efter Camelot trak Loewe sig tilbage og Lerner skrev yderligere tre musicals til teatret med andre komponister:
On a clear day you can see forever med Burton Lane, Coco med André Previn og 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue med Leonard Bernstein.
Da 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue blev opført i maj 1976 på Broadway nåede den kun at blive opført syv gange før den lukkede. Fold ud