Encores! Finian’s Rainbow to Open at Broadway’s St. James in Fall 2009
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The just-closed City Center Encores! production of Finian’s Rainbow, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with musical direction by Rob Berman, will transfer to Broadway’s St. James Theatre this fall, with David Richenthal as lead producer. It will be a fully staged production instead of a concert presentation.
Casting and creative team will be announced at a later date. The Encores! production starred Jim Norton, Kate Baldwin, Jeremy Bobb, and Cheyenne Jackson.
Finian’s Rainbow has music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and book by Harburg and Fred Saidy. The score includes “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?,” “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love (I Love the Girl I’m Near),” “That Old Devil Moon,” and “If This Isn’t Love.”
The show tells the story of the Irishman Finian McLonergan and his daughter Sharon who travel to a small Southern town in the mythical state of Missitucky with plans to bury a stolen pot of gold in the shadows of Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief it will grow and multiply.
