Productions1 on Broadway
| 1979 | St. James Theatre Original. April 8, 1979 · José Ferrer | 17 performances |
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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… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p281
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p316
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. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p330
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… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p174
There is every reason to look forward to Lane’s fifth musical—if he chooses to try again. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p323
However, Lerner did receive Tony nominations for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), Coco (1970), and Carmelina, (1979). book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p188
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