![]() ![]() Never mind that it would open on The Ides of March, 1963 seven years earlier, My Fair Lady had opened on that date and didn’t suffer for it.īut Daisy was uprooted long before that ominous date. I Picked a Daisy was expected to be the third jewel of the triple crown. One of the hottest director-choreographers around signed on, too: Gower Champion, who’d had two hits in less than a year: Bye Bye Birdie (April 14, 1960) and Carnival (April 13, 1961). Landing the part(s) was Barbara Harris, who had been so impressive in From the Second City that she got a 1961-62 Tony nod as Best Featured Actress in a Musical – despite the fact that the show only had a few songs and wasn’t really a musical. Nifty idea and complications, no? What’s more, the plot would give an actress two distinctly different roles to create a forceful tour de force. Trouble is, Daisy assumes he’s falling in love with her and loses interest in Warren. While Mark has no affection for Daisy, he becomes enamored of Melinda. But once Mark puts her under, Daisy reveals that in a former life she was Melinda Welles, a late 18th century aristocratic Englishwoman. (Audiences in 1965 gave out with laughs of recognition today they’d gasp in horror.)ĭaisy’s fiancé Warren demands that she stop hence, the hypnosis. One of his subjects would be Daisy Gamble, who’d hoped that the good doctor could help her to stop smoking five packs a day. ![]() Robert Horton, recently a TV star in the top-rated Wagon Train, would play Mark Bruckner, a hypnotherapist. I Picked a Daisy would be their original musical about extrasensory perception, more chummily known as ESP. Lerner, who’d written the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical in Broadway history – My Fair Lady – would team with Richard Rodgers, the composer of the second-longest running musical in Broadway history – Oklahoma! Now, as we approach the 50th anniversary of Clear Day, that opinion of the score still holds true.Ĭlear Day was the most anticipated musical of the 1965-1966 season – after it had been the most anticipated musical of the 1962-1963 season. ![]() Howard Taubman declared that “the book loses itself in a fog” but that “bright, charming lyrics by Lerner and a sheaf of new tunes by Lane have more melodic grace and inventive distinctiveness that has been heard in years.” Bookwriter-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane had to be assuaged by that honor.Īctually, this dichotomy was in keeping with The New York Times’ review. Until Aida in 2000, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever was the only show to hold that distinction. It was the first musical to be denied a Best Musical Tony nomination and yet win the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Goulet remains something of a lounge lizard - his touch is somewhat too easy - but this shows him at his best and it's the kind of thorough compilation he deserves.10.13.15 Clearing Up Clear Day by Peter Filichia Apart from some production flourishes, Goulet didn't really evolve with the times, so the non-chronological order helps emphasize his consistency, as does the lengthy running time. Goulet kept recording after this but sporadically: the '60s were his golden age and The Definitive Collection documents it thoroughly, proceeding out of chronological order with the intent of providing a more listenable experience - a gambit that pays off handsomely. All these served nothing more than the basics, whereas this offers 36 songs recorded between 19. Prior to this collection, the last release from Sony was the budget-line 1989 set 16 Most Requested Songs, which itself was the first collection since 1969's Robert Goulet's Greatest Hits. Then again, it doesn't have stiff competition. The physical release of the digital-only 2014 compilation The Essential Robert Goulet, Real Gone Music's 2016 double-disc set The Definitive Collection lives up to its title. ![]()
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