NEW YORK (AP) - Harry Connick Jr. will be bringing 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.
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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 Tuesday.
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