'The Notebook' Is Giving Joy Woods Her Broadway Breakout, And A New Video Proves it

Audiences who have yet to catch the Broadway musical adaptation of The Notebook can nonetheless get a feel for the show with the music video for My Days, a standout ballad from the shows cast recording .  

Released in tandem with the full album on Friday, the My Days video finds actor and singer Joy Woods one of three actors playing Allie in the musical  dressed to the nines in a floor-length ballgown as she gazes wistfully at the New York skyline from the upper floors of a skyscraper. 

The clip shifts from moody black and white to full, sun-drenched color, Wizard of Oz style, as Woods steps out onto the buildings roof and the ballad reaches its crescendo. 

Watch the music video for My Days below. 

The Notebook, which opened on Broadway at New Yorks Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre last month, is based on Nicholas Sparks 1996 novel of the same name. 

The romantic tearjerker was adapted for the big screen in 2004, with actors Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams portraying Sparks star-crossed lovers Noah and Allie, whose relationship overcomes a series of obstacles to span decades.

To amplify the universality of the story, composer-lyricist Ingrid Michaelson , book writer Bekah Brunstetter and co-directors Michael Greif and Schele Williams have reimagined Noah and Allie as a mixed-race couple, played by three sets of actors of varying ages over the course of the show. 

Ive always been a fan of not taking the movie and putting it on stage, but creating another iteration of the property, Michaelson, who directed the My Days video herself, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Friday. Theres the book, theres the movie, and then we wanted there to be the piece of theater. From the very beginning, I knew I didnt want to just slap the movie on stage, because to me, thats not satisfying.

Williams, making her Broadway directorial debut this spring with both The Notebook and the revival of The Wiz , praised the updates to the story in an interview with HuffPost. 

When I see movies, I very seldom see myself in the them, said the director, who is Black. To suddenly be included in a story that I knew so well that so many of us from so many races know so well really meant a lot. 

Fans of My Days will be able to catch a live performance of the song next week when Michaelson and Woods drop by The Kelly Clarkson Show .