Finian's Rainbow: New Broadway Cast Recording/CD

Finian's Rainbow: New Broadway Cast Recording/CD

Finian's Rainbow: New Broadway Cast Recording/CD
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Performer: Kate Baldwin
Performer: Cheyenne Jackson
Performer: Jim Norton
Performer: Christopher Fitzgerald
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2010-02-02
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture
  2. This Time of the Year
  3. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
  4. Look to the Rainbow
  5. Look to the Rainbow (Dance)
  6. Old Devil Moon
  7. Something Sort of Grandish
  8. If This Isn't Love
  9. Something Sort of Grandish (Reprise)
  10. Intro to Necessity
  11. Necessity
  12. That Great 'Come-and-Get-It' Day
  13. Entr'acte
  14. When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich
  15. Old Devil Moon (Reprise)
  16. Dance of the Golden Crock
  17. The Begat
  18. Look to the Rainbow (Reprise)
  19. When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love
  20. Finale Ultimo

Free Music Notes for Finian's Rainbow: New Broadway Cast Recording/CD

Free Music Review: More than Grandish
Hit: 5 Stars

Often, when you are in the theatre, you can sense when an audience is enjoying a show, but sometimes it goes beyond that. There is full-bodied applause, generous laughter, a buzz in the crowd at intermission. It is special performances like these that keep audiences coming back for more.

The Friday evening performance of FINIAN'S RAINBOW that I attended just a few weeks after it opened was like that. The reviews had been ecstatic, but business at the St. James Theatre box office had been sluggish. The orchestra section seemed fairly full, and the crowd was on board by the end of the sparkling Overture. As the first act unfolded the great Burton-Lane melodies washed over the crowd like a refreshing spring rain. E.Y.Harburg's lyrics delighted the crowd with their playfulness. Cheyenne Jackson's powerful baritone, Kate Baldwin's enticing mix of soft soprano and traditional Broadway belt, and Christopher Fitzgerald's elfin magic were joyously received. Then near the end of Act One Terri White stopped the show cold with her knock-out delivery of "Necessity."

The level of the performances, coupled with the reviews made me wonder why the show wasn't selling out. True, some of the younger theatre-goers raised on RENT and WICKED couldn't wrap their young minds around the fantasy elements of the story (excuse me, but isn't WICKED a fantasy???) and some complained about the old-fashioned nature of a 60+ year old show. But these are mostly students who buy rush and lottery seats, not the mainline theatre-goers who pay full price at the box office. Don't worry, I thought, the holidays are coming and business will pick up. Sadly, it never did. The producers reluctantly posted a closing notice for mid-January, and within an hour the St. James theatre had booked the incoming rock musical AMERICAN IDIOT. (That will keep the RENT-heads happier.)

The same thing happened with the revival of RAGTIME that opened 2 weeks after FINIAN'S RAINBOW to sensational reviews - and no ticket sales. Meanwhile, a block away a lackluster revival of BYE BYE BIRDIE opened to terrible notices and yet was virtually sold out. Broadway is in trouble, when great production are not selling tickets and mediocre (or worse) shows are selling out. Well, enough of the rant. What's done is done. All that is left is the CD. And happily, it's every bit as delightful as the show.

This is the most complete FINIAN'S RAINBOW available. Even a bit more complete that the performance: In the theatre the Overture observed the cuts made for the original 1947 cast album, dropping "Old Devil Moon." On this CD the Overture is note-complete. It also includes all reprises and the charming "Dance of the Golden Crock" - a harmonica solo. (The original Broadway production featured Sonny Terry.) The performances are full of life and the musical sequences capture the sparkle of the performance I attended (about 2 weeks before this CD was recorded.) Best of all, producer Tommy Krasker has chosen to include some welcome bits of dialogue giving context to the musical numbers. (The score is in essence just 11 songs...not a dud among them. Many of these songs became popular hits and/or standards.)

The booklet includes a detailed synopsis (something none of the previous releases ever included), a number of small color pictures of the production, and a complete set of lyrics. It's a classy package for what was a classy revival.

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