Vineyard Theatre's On a Clear Day Pushed Back to Fall 2011

The previously announced Vineyard Theatre production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever has been pushed back until fall 2011 due to scheduling conflicts with the production's creative team. Director Michael Mayer's reconceived production of the show was originally set to open in March 2011, with a revised book by Peter Parnell accompanying the Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane score. The show's developmental process will now begin in the spring, and the Vineyard will announce a production to fill the show's spot shortly.

In an interview with the Times, Mayer discussed significant changes to the musical's storyline, which originally followed the romantic entanglements of Daisy Gamble, a woman who discovers a past life as an 18th century woman named Melinda Welles when she is put under hypnosis by psychiatrist Dr. Mark Bruckner. The plot twists when Dr. Bruckner falls for the elusive Melinda, while Daisy falls for the good doctor. “I don’t want to overexplain it,” Mayer told the paper. “By playing a little bit with gender, I thought I could make a different kind of love triangle at the center of it. That’s the goal.”

Mayer presented a concert reading of the show last July at New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse Theater starring Anika Noni Rose and Brian d'Arcy James, with David Turner, Kerry O'Malley, Colin Hanlon and Sarah Stiles.

The original production, which played 280 performances when it opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1965, starred Barbara Harris and John Cullum. A subsequent film adaptation in 1970, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starred Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand.