The run closed April 21, 1979
- Opened
- April 8, 1979
- Closed
- April 21, 1979
- Performances
- 17
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 384th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it30 named
Frank Bouley
Kita Bouroff
Kathryn Carter
Joseph D Angerio
Jossie de Guzman
Karen Dibianco
Spence Ford
Ramon Galindo
Marc Jordan
Laura Klein
Michael Lane
Gonzalo Madurga
Debra Mathews
Morgan Richardson
Michael Rivera
Howard Ross
Judy Sabo
Charles Spoerri
Caryl Tenney
David E Thomas
Ian Michael Towers
Kevin Wilson
Lee Winston
7 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jose Ferrer
- Choreographer
- Peter Gennaro
- Orchestrations
- Hershy Kay
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (though the credits never acknowledged it), this was Burton Lane's last Broadway score and one of Alan Jay Lerner's late-career flops. It lost its entire investment in just 17 performances.
Carmelina February 14, 1980. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1104
- From the spring of 1979 to the following spring, this theatre booked four unsuccessful productions. They were the Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane musical Carmelina, Broadway Opry '79, The 1940s Radio Hour, and the British import Filumena, directed by Laurence Olivier and starring his wife, Joan Plowright, along with Frank… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 281
- Lerner’s last Broadway outing was Dance a Little Closer (5/11/83; 1 performance), written with Charles Strouse (see STROUSE AND ADAMS). The show was based on Robert E. Sherwood’s play Idiot’s Delight. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 316
- Other short-lived post-Camelot musicals included Lolita, My Love (1972), Carmelina (1979), and Dance a Little Closer (1983) with music composed by John Barry, Lane, and Charles Strouse, respectively. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 330
- Since the retirement of composer Frederick Loewe in 1960, Alan Jay Lerner’s search for a collaborator had taken him through Richard Rodgers (who threw up his hands in dismay) to Burton Lane for On a Clear Day (1965); André Previn for Coco (1969); John Barry for the 1971 road-flop Lolita, My Love; and Leonard Bernstein… More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 174
- There is every reason to look forward to Lane’s fifth musical—if he chooses to try again. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 323
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Carmelina at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.