FINIAN'S RAINBOW
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by Yip Harburg
Book by Yip Harburg & Fred Saidy
November 21 - December 7, 2008
"When the idle poor become the idle rich
You'll never know just who is who or who is which.
Won't it be rich, when everyone's poor relative becomes a
Rockafellertive and palms no longer itch?
What a switch!?" - Finian McLonergan
This delightful fantasy about a crock of gold, an Irishman and his young daughter and….a leprechaun!.... is cleverly combined with social-conscious conflicts in America involving sharecroppers, labor exploitation, racial prejudice, poll tax, right-wing reaction, and the greed for gold that lurks in most people's hearts. The setting is the mythical town of Rainbow Valley in the southern American state of Missitucky.
The show's composer Burton Lane has commented: "I love what the show has to say. What it does is to take a very serious subject, racial discrimination, and treat it the way a child would. A child has no racial prejudice, and Og, the leprechaun, is a child. When Og meets the bigoted senator, who is fuming because he has been turned Black, he says to him, 'I think it's very becoming…I was green a few weeks ago. Don't you find an occasional change of color interesting."
The remarkable score includes "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?", "Look To The Rainbow" and "Old Devil Moon."
For more information visit: http://nearwesttheatre.org/
| FINIAN'S RAINBOW posted on Wednesday September 17, 2008 |
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