
Carmelina (1979 initial version of poster art) - repro
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Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s 'Carmelina' tracks the romantic complications of an Italian matriarch grappling with three American veteran soldiers' fatherhood claims. Based on the classic cinematic comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, the plot follows a beautiful Italian woman who has successfully raised her daughter by secretly convincing three separate American WWII veteran soldiers that they are each the child's father, collapsing into frantic panic when all three men unexpectedly return to the village for a reunion. This early artistic blueprint features the initial creative layout before the musical reached the St. James Theatre in 1979 under José Ferrer's direction.

