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Craig Carnelia

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LyricistComposer b. 1949

Craig Carnelia (born August 13th, 1949) is an American musical theater composer and singer, known for his collaboration on the musicals Working and Sweet Smell of Success.

Also credited on2 works

Sweet Smell of Success
Working

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • The authors wish to thank Andra Bell, Craig Carnelia, Justin Fischer, Karen Hiscoe, and Nancy Sullivan for their professional and personal encouragement; Patricia Borne for her editorial assistance; the University of Central Florida MFA musical theatre students in the Fall 2005 Script and Score Analysis class—Paul Gebb, Josephine Leffner,…ebooks/Bell, John & Chicurel, Steven R_/Music Theory for Musical Theatre - John Bell & Steven R. Chicurel.txt
  • Craig Carnelia’s “Just a Housewife” from the musical Working charts the revelatory course of an American housewife, who, when asked about her job, at first responds that what she does is “nothing special.” However, as she sings a list of the ordinary tasks that comprise her daily existence, she discovers an undercurrent of anger that even…ebooks/Bell, John & Chicurel, Steven R_/Music Theory for Musical Theatre - John Bell & Steven R. Chicurel.txt
  • A 1982 flop I am surprised has not found a successful revival is Craig Carnelia's Is There Life After High School?, which had one song after another that beautifully captured the awkwardness of American adolescence. But its Broadway production was ludicrously lavish, with a huge two-level set. The simple, straightforward material was pain…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • Written by Craig Carnelia. Published by Carnelia Music. Administered by A. Schroeder International LLC. Used by permission. International copyright secured.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • Craig Carnelia’s songs were the best part of the show. They were richer, deeper, and had more to them than the monologues or anything else in the show. Design-wise, it felt like an off-Broadway piece that they tried to make into a Broadway show. That’s always a mistake. At first we had a lot of designer costumes and then those went by the…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • I interviewed Julia Murney in her apartment. I interviewed Craig Carnelia in his classroom just before he began teaching. I interviewed Ilene Graff at the Irish Rogue, a 44th Street haunt that no longer exists, and Harry Groener at Hurley’s, a 48th Street haunt that does. Danny Burstein and I chatted for an hour on a bench in Riverside Pa…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt

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