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What a hoot!\u00a0Featured performer Jay James-Moody, the artistic director of Squabbalogic Independent Music Theatre, has adapted (to the present day) and directs the musical play by Alan Jay Lerner to great effect.<\/p>\n

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Dr Mark Bruckner (Blake Bowden) is a strictly evidence-based psychiatrist who has recently lost his wife.\u00a0Returning to practice, he has a chance meeting with a most unusual person in David\/Daisy Gamble (Jay-James Moody).\u00a0Gamble \u2013 who is engaged to the humourless, conservative Warren (James Haxby) \u2013 takes an immediate shine to the good doctor.\u00a0In his early 30s, Gamble would dearly love to kick his smoking habit.\u00a0He has a sixth sense, speaks at the rate of knots, can make plants grow at breakneck speed, isn\u2019t appreciated for who he is and may have been reincarnated.<\/p>\n

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Fascinated, in the name of research, Dr Bruckner asks him whether he would mind if he explored Gamble\u2019s background by hypnotising him.\u00a0Gamble doesn\u2019t object, so Dr Bruckner proceeds, only to discover that 100 years ago he was a 25-year-old, intelligent, no-nonsense woman by the name of Melinda Welles (Madeleine Jones).\u00a0Welles was married to serial philanderer and artist Edward (James Haxby).\u00a0The more Dr Bruckner hears and sees from Gamble and Welles, the more he is intrigued and besotted.\u00a0Those in the know \u2013 including his secretary Mrs Hatch (Billie Palin) and sister (and fellow psychiatrist) Connie (Natalie Abbott) \u2013 are alarmed at the route the doctor has taken.\u00a0At risk is his entire career and all he has achieved.<\/p>\n

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Two songs cut from the original 1965 Broadway run have been restored and recontextualised, while three numbers written for the 1970 Barbra Streisand film have also been inserted.\u00a0The music has been newly orchestrated and arranged for piano, bass, drums and cello by Natalya Aynsley.\u00a0The result of the \u201ctinkering\u201d is unmistakably triumphant.\u00a0It is such a joyful and fun production, characterised by wonderful performances with actors who possess melodic voices.<\/p>\n

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Foremost among them is Jay James-Moody, who dazzles throughout with his mannerisms. He also has a golden set of pipes.\u00a0Blake Bowden is wonderful as the conflicted psychiatrist, who has never encountered a patient like David\/Daisy. He also stands out vocally.\u00a0But the vocal proclivity doesn\u2019t end there.\u00a0Madeleine Jones shines as a not to be messed with feminist, who knows how to stand on her own two feet.\u00a0Also accomplished in two roles \u2013 that of Gamble\u2019s nearest and dearest, and Welles husband \u2013 is James Haxby.\u00a0They are ably supported by the three other cast members \u2013 all of whom, including Lincoln Elliot, who I have not yet mentioned \u2013 fill multiple roles.<\/p>\n

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Colourful faux flowers become mainstays in a creative and utilitarian library-like set conceptualised by Michael Hankin and realised by Bella Rose Saltearn.\u00a0On a Clear Day You Can See Forever affords laughter and hijinks aplenty.\u00a0It is a thoroughly enjoyable romp that poses the question just how open are we to left of centre thinking from mainstream rationalists?\u00a0Two hours, plus a 20-minute interval, it is playing at Seymour Centre until 15th<\/sup> April, 2023.<\/p>\n

Alex First<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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