Finian's Rainbow (2009)

Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by Yip Harburg
Directed by Warren Carlyle
Cast: Kate Baldwin, Guy Davis, Alina Faye, Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Brian Reddy, David Schramm, Terri White

The play opens in Rainbow Valley, Missitucky (a fictitious blend of Mississippi and Kentucky), near Fort Knox, home of a mixture of Black and White tobacco sharecroppers. The local sheriff and Buzz Collins, front man for local senator Billboard Rawkins, demand the locals pay their taxes or else have their land auctioned off.

Theater

St. James Theatre · Broadway

Closed

January 17, 2010