After the Anderson Cooper talk show taping at Jazz At Lincoln Center, I walked down to 56th Street to the Burger Joint. This little dive smack within the beautiful lobby of the Le Parker Meridien Hotel (with about 10 tables) serves burgers "with the works" that were voted best in New York City.
Next it was on to the Marriott Marquis and a cocktail (the Big Apple of course) at The View on the 48th floor.
Finally I took a short walk to the St. James Theater on 48th Street to see Harry Connick, Jr. on Broadway in the musical On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever). In this re-imagined version of the Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner 1965 classic, Harry, a three time Grammy winner, Tony Award nominee, and two time Emmy Award winner, plays widower Dr. Mark Bruckner, a therapist in the 1970's who's struggling to get over his wife's death. One day while hypnotizing a patient, he inadvertently releases that patient's past life, a sultry, swinging, life-loving 1940's jazz singer named Melinda Wells (played by the wonderful Broadway newbie Jessie Mueller). The doctor falls in love with the past life, while the patient falls in love with the doctor. In the original, the patient was a woman and the past life was a woman. In this version (being Broadway in the new millennium) the past is a woman and the patient is a young gay man (played by the talented David Turner). And so the love triangle becomes a lot more complicated.
The music for the show was performed by a 19 piece orchestra and included the memorable songs She Isn't You, Too Late Now, Come Back To Me, and of course On A Clear Day.
(The 1st photo above is Jessie Mueller and Harry Connick, Jr. Can the guy be any more good looking?)
