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Daisy Gamble has some unusual powers like hearing phones before they ring and making flowers grow just by talking to them. However, she thinks she’s just a normal person. In fact, her primary concern is trying to quit smoking in order to please her fiancé. To accomplish this goal, she seeks the help of a hypnotist, Mark Bruckner. During their sessions, Mark discovers that she can regress into past lives and different personalities. Mark ends up falling in love with one of Daisy’s personalities, ‘Melinda’. In the end, Daisy finally realizes how special she realy is.

Act I
Quirky Daisy Gamble sees herself as an unremarkable person and has low self-esteem, even though she can (1) make plants grow remarkably, (2) predict when a telephone will ring or someone will drop in, and (3) tell where to find an object that someone else is looking for. Her current problem, though, is her nasty smoking habit, which will interfere with the chances of her fiancé, Warren, for a job with great benefits. She seeks help from a psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bruckner, to stop smoking. When he hypnotizes her, she describes living a previous life in late 18th century England as "Melinda Wells", who died in her late twenties from circumstances beyond her control. Free spirited Melinda was in love with portrait painter Edward Moncrief. Dr. Mark keeps to himself what Daisy has revealed to him, and he tells her that she should not be ashamed of her ESP.

At their next session, Daisy, under hypnosis, relates scenes from the salacious London Hellrakers' Club where Melinda met Edward. Melinda and Edward eventually marry, but the painter is unfaithful to her, making love to his subjects. Mark, the psychiatrist, finds himself falling for "Melinda" and becomes convinced that Daisy is really the reincarnation of Melinda. Melinda finally left Edward and set sail for America, but the ship never reached Boston. Before Mark can save Melinda from shipwreck, Daisy wakes up.

Act II
Mark reports on the case to his fellow psychiatrists, who ridicule his findings. Greek shipping magnate Themistocles Kriakos learns of Mark's belief in reincarnation and offers to finance a study of the events of Melinda's life in exchange for Mark's help in discovering who he will be in his next life, which will allow him to leave his fortune to his future self. Daisy accidentally discovers that she is the "Melinda" at the center of the growing controversy and that Mark prefers Melinda to herself. In her angry confrontation with the psychiatrist about the matter, she tells him that she is "through being a go-between for you and your dream girl. You're not going to go on using my head for a motel."

Daisy goes to the airport, ready to return home. Her ESP powers warn her that the plane on which she plans to travel will crash. She realizes at last how special she really is. She leaves her starchy fiancé (Come Back To Me) and she and Mark unite to explore their extraordinary future.

The Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 17, 1965 and closed on June 11, 1966 after 280 performances and 3 previews. The production was directed by Robert Lewis, choreographed by Herbert Ross, and starred Barbara Harris as Daisy Gamble/Melinda, John Cullum as Dr. Mark Bruckner, Clifford David as Edward Moncrief, Titos Vandis as Themistocles Kriakos, and William Daniels as Warren Smith. Scenic design was by Oliver Smith and costume design was by Freddy Wittop. The show was not well received. Ben Brantley of the New York Times recalled: "Its book was strained and muddled, most critics agreed; its big production numbers were simply cumbersome. But it did have [a] lushly melodic score...." Tours followed starring Tammy Grimes, Linda Lavin, Van Johnson and Nancy Dussault.

In February 2000, the City Center Encores! series presented a staged concert starring Kristin Chenoweth as Daisy/Melinda and Peter Friedman as Dr. Bruckner. The show premiered in London in 2000 at the Bridewell Theatre.

A 1970 film adaptation directed by Vincente Minnelli starred Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, and Jack Nicholson.

A revised Broadway production began previews on November 12, 2011 at the St. James Theatre and opened on December 11, 2011, directed by Michael Mayer and with a new book by Peter Parnell. Harry Connick Jr. starred as Dr. Mark Bruckner.[5][6] The cast included Jessie Mueller as Melinda and David Turner as David Gamble. The revised version, which had a developmental workshop at The Vineyard Theatre in the fall of 2009[5]and had readings in August 2010 at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, departed from the plot of the original. The patient is now a gay florist David (Turner) who was a female jazz singer Melinda (Mueller) in a former life, and who falls in love with his psychiatrist, widower Dr. Mark Bruckner (Connick). The Vassar concert mixed "material from the stage and film versions and eliminates overstuffed 1960s-style production numbers."[8] This production closed on January 29, 2012 after 29 previews and 57 performances.

1965 Broadway version
Act I
"Overture"
"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!" — Daisy Gamble
"Ring Out the Bells" — Samuel Welles, Mrs. Welles, Sir Hubert Insdale and Servants
"Tosy and Cosh" — Daisy
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" — Dr. Mark Bruckner
"On the S.S. Bernard Cohn" — Daisy, Muriel Bunson, James Preston and Millard Cross
"At the Hellrakers" (Ballet)
"Don't Tamper with My Sister" — Edward Moncrief, Sir Hubert and Ensemble
"She Wasn't You" — Edward
"Melinda" — Dr. Bruckner

Act II
"When I'm Being Born Again" — Themistocles Kriakos
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have" — Daisy
"Wait Till We're Sixty-Five" — Warren Smith and Daisy
"Come Back to Me" — Dr. Bruckner
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Reprise)" - Ensemble

2011 Broadway revival version
Act I
"Overture"
"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!"
"She Isn't You"
"Open Your Eyes" †
"Wait 'Til We're 65"
"You're All the World To Me" †
"Who Is There Among Us Who Knows"
"On the S.S. Bernard Cohn"
"Love With All The Trimmings"
"Melinda"

Act II
"Entr' Acte"
"Go To Sleep" - Added during previews, not credited in the Playbill
"Ev'ry Night at Seven" †
"Too Late Now" †
"When I'm Being Born Again"
"He Wasn't You"
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have"
"Come Back to Me"
"On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"

† Songs taken from the musical film Royal Wedding.

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