Connick also took his funk music to the People's Republic of China in 1995, playing at the Shanghai Center Theatre.

A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. — " Only You " in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS.

The When Harry Met Sally ... soundtrack album features American singer and pianist Harry Connick, Jr .. Bobby Colomby, the drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the director a tape of the musician's music.

The music in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

She directed one of Harry Connick, Jr .' s live performance videos ( The New York Big Band Concert ) in 1992, and she appears in several of his music videos.

For Lincoln Center Theater, Stroman went on to direct and choreograph Thou Shalt Not ( 2001 ) with music by Harry Connick Jr. and The Frogs ( 2004 ) with book by Nathan Lane.

** Thou Shalt Not – Harry Connick, Jr. ( music & lyrics )

The novel was also made into a Broadway musical entitled Thou Shalt Not, with music composition by Harry Connick, Jr ..

Crooners have remained popular among fans of traditional pop music, with contemporary performers such as Tony Bennett, Barry Manilow, Michael Stipe, Morrissey, Richard Hawley, Harry Connick, Jr., Michael Bublé, Neil Hannon, Rod Stewart and Engelbert Humperdinck keeping the form alive.

In addition to many of the station's previous artists, the playlist included Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr., Rod Stewart and Michael Bublé, whose music was influenced by the standards artists.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

In March 2001, Connick starred in a television production of South Pacific with Glenn Close, televised on the ABC network.

In October 2001, he again released two albums: Songs I Heard, featuring big band re-workings of children's show themes, and 30, featuring Connick on piano with guest appearances by several other musical artists.

" Connick appeared as Grace Adler's boyfriend ( and later husband ) Leo Markus on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

In July 2003, Connick released his first instrumental album in fifteen years, Other Hours Connick on Piano Volume 1.

An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers.

Another album from Marsalis Music was recorded in 2005, Occasion: Connick on Piano, Volume 2, a duo album with Harry Connick, Jr. on piano together with Branford Marsalis on saxophone.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

Connick appeared on the May 4, 2010, episode of American Idol where he acted as a mentor for the top 5 finalists.

Connick, Jr. was also thrilled to learn he'd be playing an executive assistant district attorney on Law & Order: SVU, because the role gives him the chance to act like his father, who was district attorney of New Orleans, LA for 30 years.

Connick, Jr. also hopes David Haden doesn't cheat on Olivia Benson, he told TV Guide magazine, " I don't want to get caught cheating.

" Connick, Jr. admitted fans of sitcom Will & Grace gave him a hard time when his character on that show cheated on Debra Messing's character, Grace Adler.

He even mentions his father was excited that he get the role of EADA Haden and Connick, Jr. mentions his father was the district attorney in New Orleans, and as he played Haden, he has something else to share with his father ; he also mentions his mother was a judge and his father wanted him in more courtroom scenes on the show.

* Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Volume 1 ( 2003 )

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales.

For his 1997 release To See You, Connick recorded original love songs, touring the United States and Europe with a full symphony orchestra backing him and his piano in each city.

* John Thompson, exonerated death row inmate, party in United States Supreme Court case Connick v. Thompson

In 1994, Connick decided to branch out.

On April 16, 1994, Connick Jr. married former Victoria's Secret model, Jill Goodacre, originally from Texas, at the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans.

Goodacre, billed as " Jill Connick ", appeared as herself in an episode (" The One With the Blackout ") of the popular sitcom, Friends, in 1994.

Goodacre married Harry Connick, Jr., in 1994.

* She ( Harry Connick, Jr. album ), released 1994

Look at Me Now, Harry Connick Jr. on the 1990 album We Are in Love, The Brian Setzer Orchestra on their eponymous 1994 album, and Sonny Rollins on the 2000 album This Is What I Do.

" Just the Way You Are " is one of Joel's most frequently covered songs, and some well-known musicians who have recorded it over the years include Barry White, Diana Krall, Ahmad Jamal, Shirley Bassey, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

Connick, Jr .' s mother, who died from ovarian cancer, was Jewish ( her parents had immigrated from Minsk, Russia the capital of Belarus and Vienna, Austria ).

Dolphin Tale, directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Kris Kristofferson, is based on the real-life story of the dolphin Winter, who was rescued from a crab trap in December 2005 and lost her tail, but has learned to swim with a prosthetic one.

The show's title character is the superhero alter ego of geeky sixteen-year-old Dexter Douglas who attends Harry Connick High School.

Fred is later enrolled at the university, befriending Eddie ( Harry Connick Jr .), a man in his 20s who permits Fred to hang out with him.

Major acts who have recorded there include Walter Becker, The Kinks, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Counting Crows, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Marc Anthony, The B-52's, Tony Bennett, Michael Brecker, Devo, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Dream Theater, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Throwing Muses, Serge Gainsbourg, The Strokes, Bryan Adams, Bernadette Peters, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett Trio, Neil Young, Harry Connick, Jr., Iggy Pop, Madonna, Journey, Muse, George Michael, Betty Carter, Sum 41, John Mayer, Moby, Vanessa Williams, Blondie, Porcupine Tree, Chic, Joan Jett, David Bowie, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Rumble Strips, Trey Anastasio, Helix, Kathem Al Saher, Gang Starr, Honor Society, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the band Power Station, which was named after the studio itself.

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 ).

All voiced themselves on the program ( with the exception of Robyn and Connick, Jr., who voiced Blandi and Big Baby, respectively, in the episode " Rock-a-big Baby ").

In the middle of the thirteenth season, Benson enters into a relationship with a new prosecutor to the district attorney's office, Executive ADA David Haden, portrayed by Harry Connick, Jr., who is also a friend of Hargitay's.

Some of the musicians who appeared on the show included Stephan Grappelli, Harry Connick Jnr and his Big Band, George Benson, ZZ Top, Randy Crawford, Spinal Tap, Buddy Guy, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Tom Jones, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Cleo Lane, Kylie Minogue, Alice Cooper, Dionne Warwick, BB King, Phil Collins.