Carmelina

Carmelina (1979) October 31 - November 18, 2012

The season continues with the West Coast Premiere of CARMELINA, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Burton Lane, and the book by Lerner and Joseph Stein.

Carmelina is the musical version of the film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, which is also the source of the story in the hit Broadway musical, Mamma Mia! Carmelina played briefly on Broadway in 1979 and had two staged concerts at the York Theatre. In 1962, Carmelina Campbell, Italian “widow”… Show more of a non-existent soldier, is faced with the return of three American soldiers who liberated San Forino in WWII. One of them is the father of her daughter, Gia ... but she’s not sure which! The great score by team that did Royal Weddingand On a Clear Day You Can See Foreverincludes two standards, One More Walk Around the Garden and It’s Time for a Love Song, as well as Why Him?, Someone in April, I’m a Woman and Love Before Breakfast.

Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Burton Lane
Book by Alan Jay Lerner and Joseph Stein

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