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3	''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' is a 1965 musical comedy with book and lyrics by [[Creator/LernerAndLoewe Alan Jay Lerner]] and music by Burton Lane.
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5	Daisy Gamble is a 22-year-old New Yorker who, although seemingly ordinary, expresses some rather uncanny abilities, particularly over plants. Daisy goes to visit Dr. Mark Bruckner, an experienced hypnotist, to see if he can help cure her addiction to smoking. While hypnotizing her, Bruckner uncovers details not only of Daisy's early life, but also her ''previous'' life as a young 18th-century Englishwoman named Melinda Welles and her four years of marriage to Sir Edward Moncrief, a rakish portrait painter.
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7	The original Broadway production starred Creator/BarbaraHarris as Daisy/Melinda and Creator/JohnCullum as Dr. Bruckner. The 1970 [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] was directed by Creator/VincenteMinnelli, starred Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/YvesMontand, and featured a considerably revised story as well as new {{Movie Bonus Song}}s from Lerner and Lane.
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9	In 2011 a {{revival}} was staged with a number of substantial changes, starring Creator/HarryConnickJr as Dr. Bruckner. Daisy Gamble becomes [[GenderFlip David Gamble]], who is trying to quit smoking because he already told his boyfriend that he quit. He goes to Bruckner on the advice of his roommate, and during their sessions, Bruckner discovers that David is the reincarnation of a 1940s singer named Melinda Wells.
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12	!!Tropes appearing in this musical:
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14	* AdaptationNameChange:
15	** In the film, Daisy's past alter ego is named Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees.
16	** Also, Dr. Mark Bruckner becomes Dr. Marc Chabot, and is [[AdaptationalNationality French rather than Austrian]].
17	* ArrangedMarriage: Melinda's family makes elaborate preparations for her to marry Sir Hubert Insdale. She quashes the proposal simply by saying "no" to him.
18	* DisposableFiance: Daisy's blandly perfect fiancé, the perfectly bland Warren Smith.
19	* DistantDuet: In the film version, when Daisy is avoiding the psychiatrist and he tries to reach her telepathically, she begins hearing the words of the song "Come Back to Me" coming from the mouths of her cooking class teacher, police officers, and other random strangers.
20	* FunnyForeigner: Themistocles Kriakos, an eccentric Greek millionaire who speaks broken English and is more than eager to fund serious research on reincarnation.
21	* LovingAShadow: Mark falls in love with Melinda, though she only exists in Daisy's unconscious recollections.
22	* MySisterIsOffLimits: Edward invokes this with the song "Don't Tamper with My Sister," though the complaint here is just that it's in public (and Edward is only [[BoyfriendBluff pretending to be her brother]] anyway).
23	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Daisy's British accent starts to fade when she stops recalling memories of her previous life in 18th-century England.
24	* PsychicPowers: Daisy's demonstrated psychic powers include knowing where other people's car keys are and making flowers grow really fast.
25	* {{Reincarnation}}: Mark probes into Daisy's unconscious memories of her past life in 18th-century England as Melinda Welles.
26	* TalkingToPlants: Daisy does this in the song "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here."
27	* TitleThemeTune: In a rare musical theatre example, the prelude features the title song sung by an offstage chorus.
28	* UnreliableVoiceover: Daisy's narration of her 18th-century flashbacks often contradicts the immediate happenings.
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31	!!Tropes appearing in the 2011 revival:
32	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In this version, David ends back with Warren, not Mark.
33	* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the original musical, Melinda was an English noble woman from the 18th Century. In the revival, she's a big band singer from the 1940s in New York.
34	* AdaptationalSexuality / GenderSwap: Daisy Gamble is replaced with David Gamble, a "29-year old, single homosexual male." Melinda, however, stays Melinda.
35	* DisposableFiance: Averted. Unlike the original, Warren is a developed character in his own right, and he ultimately gets the guy.
36	* IncompatibleOrientation: The gay David falls in love with the straight Mark, who loves David's past life, the female Melinda.
37	* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: David falls in love with his psychoanalyst, Mark Bruckner.
38	* TheLostLenore: Mark is still not over his wife's death years later.
39	%%* NiceGuy: Warren
40	* ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex: Gay David Gamble goes to therapist Dr. Bruckner to stop his smoking habit and, through hypnosis, discloses his past life as 1940s jazz singer Melinda Wells. Bruckner finds himself falling for David's recollections of Melinda, but, as a straight man, [[IncompatibleOrientation is not attracted to the present David, despite them technically being the same person]]. David, who had fallen for Bruckner, is none too happy when he realizes this. [[note]] David is a GenderSwap version of the original protagonist, Daisy Gamble, but Melinda Wells remains female.[[/note]]
41	* SettingUpdate: The setting changes from 1960s to 1970s New York. Likewise, Melinda is now a New Yorker from the 1940s, not an Englishwoman from the 18th-century.
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