About This Show

The groundbreaking 1947 musical Finian’s Rainbow follows an Irishman who steals a feisty leprechaun’s pot of gold and escapes with his daughter, Sharon, to Missitucky, a mythical region in the United States that is part of the Jim Crow South. The daughter and the sprite each find romance with others, but also encounter bigotry, economic disparity and cultural injustice. The score is spiked with such popular show tunes as “Old Devil Moon,” “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” and “Look to the Rainbow,” plus spicy comic and satiric songs such as “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love,” and “When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich.”

Show Details

Dates: First Preview: October 26, 2016 Opening Night: November 6, 2016 Final Performance: January 29, 2017

Theatermania Review

| | November 6, 2016
Melissa Errico and Ryan Silverman star in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s small-scale, unamplified revival of Burton Lane, Yip Harburg, and Fred Saidy’s Golden Age musical.

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