Finian's Rainbow
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Mar 26, 2009
Closed Mar 29, 2009
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Finian's Rainbow is the story of the Irishman Finian McLonergan, and his daughter Sharon who arrive in the small Southern town of Rainbow Valley 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. They have been followed from Ireland by the owner of the gold, a leprechaun, who shows up determined to recover his treasure. The musical is unusual in that it deals in a satirical way with issues of class and race, most specifically in the character of a bigoted southern senator who is accidentally turned black. Songs include "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love," and "If This Isn't Love."
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
130 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019
One of New Yorks Grande Dames of the theater district, City Center is home to Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Encore! series of Lost Musicals and The Manhattan Theater Club's Stage 1. Newly renovated and very comfortable, the theater seats 2684 patro [...] Read More
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A striking paradox is at the core of director-choreographer Warren Carlyle's simply wonderful concert revival of Finian's Rainbow, which concludes this season's City Center Encores! series and is Broadway-ready. On one hand, the musical -- which deals with racial intolerance in a mythical Missitucky sharecropper's valley -- seems unusually dated now that the Barack Obama era rules. On the other hand, the show feels so up-to-the-minute prescient that lines of dialogue about questionable banking practices and misguided credit policies have the audience breaking into spontaneous applause.
The cork was popped on the delightful E. Y. Harburg-Fred Saidy-Burton Lane work at the end of the 1940s wh[...]