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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Musical

Overview

Synopsis

A kooky young New Yorker, Daisy Gamble, visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bruckner, to get help in kicking her smoking habit in order to please her fiancé, Warren. However, Daisy is no ordinary patient. She has some unusual powers, such as hearing phones before they ring and making flowers grow just by talking to them. Under hypnosis, she reveals that she can regress into the past and unknowingly becomes Melinda Welles, an English lady from the eighteenth-century. Dr. Bruckner becomes increasingly obsessed about finding out more about Melinda and slowly realizes that he is falling in love with her…Melinda, not Daisy. Meanwhile, Daisy is completely unaware of her eighteenth-century alter-ego and grows fond of Dr. Bruckner. When Daisy discovers the reason for his interest in her, she is horrified and tries to leave. However, she finds herself drawn back to Dr. Bruckner and finally realizes how special she truly is.

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Music
Category
Musical
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
1965
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Settings
Period, Multiple Settings
Time & Place
New York City, 1960s
Cast Size
large
Orchestra Size
Medium
Dancing
Musical Staging
Ideal For
College/University, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Regional Theatre, Star Vehicle Female, Star Vehicle Male, Mostly Male Cast, Includes Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult Characters, Large Cast

Context

Characters

Showing 8 of 15 characters

Character Portrayals

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Songs

Act One

  • "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!" - Daisy
  • “First Regression” - Mark
  • "Solicitor’s Song" - Solicitor, Trundle, Hubert, Insdale, and Welles.
  • "He Wasn’t You" - Daisy
  • "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" - Mark
  • " * On the S.S. Bernard Cohn" - Daisy, Muriel, Sally, and Patty
  • "She Wasn't You" - Edward and Melinda
  • "Melinda" - Mark

Act Two

  • "When I Come Round Again" - Preston and Students
  • "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?"- Daisy
  • "Wait Till We're Sixty-Five" - Warren and Daisy
  • "Come Back to Me" - Mark
  • "Come Back to Me [Reprise]" - Mark

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.

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Guide Written By:

Alexandra Appleton

Alexandra Appleton

Writer, editor and theatre researcher