Musicals in Mufti

The York's Musicals in Mufti series, which offers stripped-down concert stagings of Broadway rarities, devoted its 2019 winter season to three little-known works by librettist Alan Jay Lerner. Carmelina (January 26–February 3), with music by Burton Lane, stars Andréa Burns in a 1979 adaptation of the movie Buena Sera, Mrs. Campbell (which also served as the ur-text for Mamma Mia!). The unrecorded 1945 musical The Day Before Spring (February 9–17) was Lerner's second Broadway collaboration with Frederick Loewe, with whom he went on to create My Fair Lady and Camelot. The 1971 curio Lolita, My Love (February 23–March 3), a would-be adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's literary scandal Lolita with music by John Barry, never made it to Broadway at all; Erik Haagensen has created a new script from several of Lerner's drafts.