Bruckner’s research, sung by his students. Intriguingly, Moore has interpolated “Who Is There Among Us Who Knows”-a song added to, and later cut from, the 1970 On a Clear Day film that starred Barbra Streisand-yet she didn’t add the corresponding character (Daisy’s stepbrother, played by Jack Nicholson) here, it becomes a bizarrely moody commentary on Dr. “I’m down to my last month’s rent,” Daisy says in the first scene-yet she mentions the job only a few times after that. Mark Bruckner (Stephen Bogardus, who could afford to tone it down just a notch) to hypnotize her into quitting smoking because she needs a job it has nothing to do with her boyfriend Warren, who didn’t make the cut in Moore’s script. Now, Daisy (a sparkling Melissa Errico, who also starred in Irish Rep’s recent Finian’s Rainbow revival) asks Dr. Her adaptation of Lerner’s famously problematic book certainly streamlines the plot, eliminating a few characters along the way. The not-so-good news: Moore hasn’t quite solved this Rubik’s Cube of a show. (Though the New York City skyline rendering did resemble something you’d make in a paint-and-sip class after a few glasses of cabernet.) Even the amateurish painted scenic tableaux, projected onto backdrops with each location change, look more charming than chintzy. The good news: The sunny show works beautifully on Irish Rep’s postage-stamp-size stage, and Lane’s music sounds gorgeous with an on-stage five-piece orchestra (which includes a harp!). Now, thanks to Off Broadway’s Irish Rep and director Charlotte Moore, On a Clear Day has finally been transformed into a chamber musical. In his mixed but optimistic review of the 2011 Harry Connick Jr.–toplined Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, New York magazine’s Scott Brown pinpointed what he called a “congenital defect” in the 1965 Burton Lane–Alan Jay Lerner show: “It’s a chamber musical trapped in a Broadway extravaganza’s body,” he wrote. Daisy Hobbs, Melissa Errico, Caitlin Gallogly and Florrie Bagel in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
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