Theater: Please Don't Pick on Daisy

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. For 3½ years Alan Jay Lerner worked and reworked this show, and finally his drafting board has been set to music. What he has proved is that he is the sort of writer who needs a writer. When he leaned on Bernard Shaw, he produced the book for the musical masterpiece My Fair Lady With the late T. H. White to guide his pen, he wrote the passable Camelot. His unseen ally this time is John L. Balderston, who wrote Berkeley Square in 1929, and Balderston was...

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