Finian's Rainbow (2004 Off-Broadway Concert Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Ghostlight
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- This Time of the Year - David Staller
- How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Melissa Errico
- Woody's Entrance
- Look to the Rainbow - Melissa Errico,
- Old Devil Moon - Melissa Errico,
- Intro to Necessity - David Staller, , Terri White
- Necessity - Terri White
- Something Sort of Grandish - Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets
- If This Isn't Love - Melissa Errico,
- Something Sort of Grandish (Reprise) - Malcolm Gets
- That Great Come-and-Get-It-Day - Melissa Errico, ,
- When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich - Melissa Errico
- When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich (Reprise) - Jonathan Freeman
- Old Devil Moon (Reprise) - Melissa Errico,
- Fiddle Faddle - Malcolm Gets, John Sloman
- Begat - John Sloman, , Terri White
- Wedding/Look to the Rainbow (Reprise) - Melissa Errico,
- When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love - Malcolm Gets
- Finian's Farewell - Jonathan Freeman
- Finale - Melissa Errico
- Old Devil Moon - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
Free Music Notes for Finian's Rainbow (2004 Off-Broadway Concert Cast)
Free Music Review: NO POT OF GOLD AT THIS RAINBOWS' END.
Hit: 2 Stars
HMMMM....LET'S SEE. WHY DON'T WE RECORD FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ENTIRE ENCHANTING SCORE TO 'FINIANS' RAINBOW' THAT SATIRICAL 1947 SWIPE AT RACIAL INTOLERANCE AND GREED AND CONSUMERISM. OKAY, SO FAR SO GOOD. NOW, LET'S HIRE A CRACKERJACK CAST OF PERFORMERS TO INTERPRET THIS LIGHT-HEARTED AND DELIGHTFUL SCORE. OH DARN! WE RAN OVER-BUDGET, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO HIRE A ORCHESTRA-LET'S NOT WASTE STUDIO TIME-LET'S TINKLE THE ENTIRE SCORE ON A CUPPLA PIANOS.(MAYBE NO ONE WILL NOTICE THAT THIS FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING OF 'FINIANS RAINBOW' SCORE HAS BEEN ROBBED OF ITS' SOUL AND REPLACED BY TINKLE, TINKLE, PLUNK, PLUNK.) THE TWO STAR RATING IS FOR THE PERFORMERS WHO ARE LEFT STRANDED BY PENNY-PINCHING PRODUCERS.
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Minimalist accompaniement can be lovely, especially when it allows a performer to shine, but it can also be a detriment. And in the case of this recording of 1947's Finian?s Rainbow, it's hard not to pine for a full, luscious orchestra instead of a pair of pianists (no matter how good they are). Oh well. At least we are lucky to get the lyrics, a superb cast and the most complete recording of Yip Harburg and Burton Lane's score to date. The plot is convoluted and long on whimsy (yes, there is a leprechaun and a pot o' gold) but lefty Harburg's book and lyrics also bemoan "the folly of racism," as he put it in a note about the show. The cast rises to the occasion. Ever-lovely Melissa Errico has such a crystalline soprano (complete with Irish brogue) that her renditions of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Look to the Rainbow" raise goosebumps. Overall, the cast does great by the surprisingly imaginative score--"The Begat" is appropriately rollicking for instance. This CD is, indeed, "Something sweet,/Something sort of grand-ish." --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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