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...CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (RCA Victor). Sometimes listening to the album made from a musical is better than sitting through the show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...
...Clear Day You Can See Forever will be a solid smash on Broadway, yet also predictably the show will not set off the seismographic tremors that Alan Lerner has created in the past. Mr. Lerner has chosen to collaborate with the veteran composer Burton Lane, whose brilliant score for Finian's Rainbow of 1947 greatly influenced subsequent musical. The combination of two expect giants leads one to expect the ultimate, and the attempt to floor the audience certainly becomes obvious. But the show unhappily remains more an entertainment than an experience...
...distribution, so that a greater share of the proceeds will wind up at Storyboard. Hubley is hoping that Of Stars and Men will be profitable enough to allow him to make other full length features. (Back in the mid Fifties he almost did an animated version of the musical Finian's Rainbow, but financial backing fell through at the last minute.) Otherwise Hubley's film budgets will have to keep coming from profits of commercials...
Also, Paint Your Wagon (July 31); Guys and Dolls (August 7); the Merry Widow (August 14); The Most Happy Fella (August 21); and Finian's Rainbow (august 28), with Juluis LaRosa. The latter closes September...
...start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on -to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan...