Harry Connick Jr. to Star in On a Clear Day Revival

Tony nominee Harry Connick Jr. will star in a Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever this fall, according to the New York Post. The Michael Mayer-directed production was originally planned to run off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre but is now eyeing a bow on the Great White Way.

Connick Jr. received a Tony nomination for The Pajama Game in 2006.  He wrote music and lyrics for the musical Thou Shalt Not and has headlined two concert engagements, including last summer's Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway. His many film credits include New in Town, P.S. I Love You, The Iron Giant, Hope Floats, Bug and Independence Day. He has sold over 25 million records throughout his nearly 20 year-long recording career.

Featuring music by Burton Lane and lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner, On a Clear Day originally opened on Broadway in October 17, 1965 and ran for 280 performances. The show follows an eccentric young woman who discovers she was a British aristocrat in a past life. Mayer's reconceived show, which features a revised book by Peter Parnell, follows a white man who discovers his past life as a black jazz musician.

A previous staging at Vassar's New York Stage and Film starred Brian d'Arcy James and Tony winner Anika Noni Rose, who is still reportedly attached to the show.