The Broadway graveyard is full of flops that had great scores and bad scripts.
An outstanding example is the 1965 musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever."
The score -- music by Burton Lane, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner -- is melodic, witty and whimsical; the title song became a standard when Barbra Streisand recorded it for the 1970 movie.
But Lerner's original story -- about extrasensory perception, reincarnation and transmutation -- is as loony as he was (more on that in a minute).
As one critic wrote, "What Mr. Lerner should have worried about was not another life but a better idea."
via www.nypost.com
