Can't wait!
Photo Coverage: Finian's Rainbow CD Recording
The cast and orchestra of the acclaimed Broadway production of Finian's Rainbow hit the recording studio on December 7 to record a new cast album of the show.
The album, featuring Yip Harburg-Burton Lane's score, is being produced by Tommy Kasker of PS Classics. The label anticipates an early February street date. Finian's Rainbow has a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; music by Burton Lane; with book adaptation by Arthur Perlman and original adaptation for New York City Center Encores! by David Ives. It is directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle; musical direction is by Rob Berman. Previews began on October 8, and opened officially on October 29.
The production stars Jim Norton, Kate Baldwin, Chuck Cooper, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Cheyenne Jackson. Finian's Rainbow 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. They have been followed from Ireland by the owner of the gold, a leprechaun, who shows up determined to recover his treasure.
The musical's score boasts such classic songs as "Old Devil Moon," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love (I Love the Girl I'm Near), "Look to the Rainbow," and "If This Isn't Love."
Look at that GQMF.
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I really can't wait for this cast recording to come out. I love this score, and this show, impossibly much.
The cast and orchestra of the acclaimed Broadway production of Finian's Rainbow hit the recording studio on December 7 to record a new cast album of the show.
The album, featuring Yip Harburg-Burton Lane's score, is being produced by Tommy Kasker of PS Classics. The label anticipates an early February street date. Finian's Rainbow has a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; music by Burton Lane; with book adaptation by Arthur Perlman and original adaptation for New York City Center Encores! by David Ives. It is directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle; musical direction is by Rob Berman. Previews began on October 8, and opened officially on October 29.
The production stars Jim Norton, Kate Baldwin, Chuck Cooper, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Cheyenne Jackson. Finian's Rainbow 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. They have been followed from Ireland by the owner of the gold, a leprechaun, who shows up determined to recover his treasure.
The musical's score boasts such classic songs as "Old Devil Moon," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love (I Love the Girl I'm Near), "Look to the Rainbow," and "If This Isn't Love."
Look at that GQMF.
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I really can't wait for this cast recording to come out. I love this score, and this show, impossibly much.