NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Connick Jr. (photo) will bring his crooner’s voice back to Broadway.
The Grammy-winning musician and star of the 2006 revival of The Pajama Game will star this fall in a reworked version of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
The musical with a score by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner will have a new book by Peter Parnell, based on the original story by Alan Jay Lerner. It is being directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer.
Connick will play a psychiatrist who puts a young man under hypnosis to help him quit smoking, only to reveal his patient’s former life as a female jazz singer.
The 43-year-old singer spent the summer of 2010 in Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway.” Producers made the announcement last Tuesday.