Carmelina

Infobox Musical
name= Carmelina
subtitle=


image_size= 150px
caption= Original Cast Recording
music= Burton Lane
lyrics= Alan Jay Lerner
book= Joseph Stein
Alan Jay Lerner
basis= Film "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell"
productions= 1979 Broadway
awards=

"Carmelina" is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics by Lerner, and music by Burton Lane.

Based on the 1968 film "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell", it focuses on an Italian woman who has raised her teenaged daughter Gia to believe her father was an American who died heroically in World War II. Supposedly she spurns the constant advances of local café owner Vittorio because her heart still belongs to the man she tragically lost. In reality, she had affairs with three different GIs and has no idea who fathered the girl. Trouble ensues when the three veterans decide to reunite in Carmelina's small hometown.

After eleven previews, the Broadway production, directed by José Ferrer and choreographed by Peter Gennaro, opened on April 8, 1979 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for only seventeen performances. The cast included Georgia Brown and Cesare Siepi.

A nomination for Best Original Score was its sole recognition from the Tony Awards committee. The original cast recording inexplicably replaced Siepi with Paul Sorvino.

ong list

;Act I
*It's Time for a Love Song
*Why Him?
*I Must Have Her
*Someone in April
*Signora Campbell
*Love Before Breakfast
*Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town
*One More Walk Around the Garden
*All That He'd Want Me To Be
*It's Time for a Love Song (Reprise)

;Act II
*Carmelina
*The Image of Me
*I'm a Woman
*The Image of You
*It's Time for a Love Song (Reprise)

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3932/ Internet Broadway Database listing]