On A Clear Day You Can See Forever...
Sept. 8 - 12, 1999
Special Location: The Gershwin Theatre
2350 Turk Street, San Francisco (west of Masonic).
Cabaret sensation Andrea Marcovicci stars as Daisy, an uncommon girl whose abilities include ESP Photo: David Allen
and making flowers grow in
42nd Street Moon's production of
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
SAN FRANCISCO (29 July 1999) -- San Francisco's award-winning "lost musical" company, 42nd Street Moon, presents a special treat when cabaret sensation Andrea Marcovicci and Broadway veteran Michael DeVries star in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. 42nd Street Moon's production, performed for one week only with a small orchestra, will showcase Marcovicci's incomparable voice in such lilting songs as "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here," "S.S. Bernard Cohn," and "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, directed by Wayne Bryan with music direction by Michael Horsley, plays September 8 (press opening: September 9) through 12 at the Gershwin Theatre in San Francisco. For tickets ($25-32), the public can call 415/621-7797.
Written by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner in 1965, this compelling musical follows Daisy Gamble, a New Yorker unaware of her gift of ESP, and the psychiatrist who guides her through flashbacks to her previous life as an 18th century noblewoman. At its opening, the World-Telegram & Sun praised it as "a happy wonder and a bewitching, beguiling musical play," and the New York Times applauded the score, with its "bright, charming lyrics by Lerner and a sheaf of new tunes by Lane that have more melodic grace and inventive distinction than has been heard in years." Originally starring Barbara Harris and John Cullum, the show later was made into a film with Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, and an unknown Jack Nicholson.
In retrospect, it is impressive that ON A CLEAR DAY ... reached the stage at all. The project began auspiciously enough, with a creative team composed of Lerner, Richard Rodgers, and famed choreographer Gower Champion. Originally titled I PICKED A DAISY, the show was scheduled to open in March, 1963. Lerner, however, had by this time become a devoted patient of Max "Dr. Feelgood" Jacobsen, who treated his many society patients with injections of methedrine, to which Lerner was now deeply addicted. Frustrated at the almost complete lack of progress, Rodgers quit the team. Burton Lane was enlisted to replace him, and as a lesser partner, simply endured the long delays in silence. Co-star Robert Horton was let go (and went into the already-in-rehearsal 100 IN THE SHADE, causing Hal Holbrook to be fired); Champion left the project, taking up David Merrick's HELLO DOLLY!, and the production date was put off to 1964. Yet even then the book and lyrics weren't ready, and the show didn't reach Broadway until 1965, with Dr. Max in constant attendance on Lerner.
Described by New York Magazine as "the most throbbingly irresistible voice in cabaret," and by Stephen Holden of The New York Times as a singer with "an incandescent enthusiasm and a masterly balance between poignancy and wit," cabaret sensation Andrea Marcovicci has made fans worldwide with her enchanting, intense and intelligent performances. She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut with the American Symphony Orchestra before a sold-out audience, and has performed at the White House. In 1994 she made her London cabaret debut, where she sold out a one-month engagement in the Music Room of London's popular jazz venue Pizza On The Park. Marcovicci's talent undoubtedly appeals to an ever-increasing audience; as the San Francisco Chronicle puts it, when "introduced to her music, people become immediate fans."
Marcovicci began her career as an actress in both theater and movies, making her Broadway debut with Howard Keel in AMBASSADOR, the musical adaptation of the novel by Henry James, and appearing off-Broadway in THE WEDDING OF IPHEGENIA, VARIETY OBIT, and THE SEAGULL. She has performed as Ophelia in HAMLET for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park, and has received rave reviews for her performances in the leading roles of the American Conservatory Theater productions of ST. JOAN, BURN THIS, and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Marcovicci has also appeared in a number of films, including Woody Allen's The Front, and Twentieth Century Fox's Jack The Bear with Danny De Vito, as well as multiple television appearances.
Michael DeVries has appeared in multiple Broadway productions including GRAND HOTEL (directed by Tommy Tune), HELLO DOLLY! with Carol Channing, SECRET GARDEN, CATS, and KING DAVID. He was in the national tours of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN with Cathy Rigby, HELLO DOLLY! with Carol Channing, CAROUSEL directed by James Hammerstein, and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA directed by Hal Prince. Not limited to the live stage, DeVries has appearanced on television's "Sex and the City," "Law & Order," and "All My Children." Local audiences may remember him as Sky Masterson in Woodminster Summer Musicals' production of GUYS & DOLLS (he received his Equity card 17 years ago in that company's production of SOUTH PACIFIC).
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