Finian's Rainbow > Original Broadway Cast

Show Details

Show: Finian's Rainbow (19)
Music: Burton Lane (256)
Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg (355)
Book: Fred Saidy (8)

Recording Details

Date: March 30, 1947
Type: Audio / Stage Cast
Language: English
Location: US / NY / New York
Theatre/Venue: 46th Street Theatre
Recording Studio: Liederkranz Hall
Producer: Mitchell Ayres (19)
Engineer: Harold Chapman (2)
Director: Bretaigne Windust
Choreography: Michael Kidd (29)
Conductor: Ray Charles [2] (6)
Music Director: Milton Rosenstock (35)
Orchestrations: Robert Russell Bennett (205), Don Walker (125)
Vocal Arrangements: Lyn Murray (18)
Dance Music: Trude Rittmann (68)
Performer: Anita Alvarez (2) — Susan the Silent, Lorenzo Fuller (8) — 2nd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer, Alan Gilbert (11) — 1st Sharecropper, Jerry Laws (3) — 1st Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer, Ella Logan (29) — Sharon McLonergan, The Lyn Murray Singers, Delores Martin, Donald Richards (4) — Woody Mahoney, Albert Sharpe (3) — Finian McLonergan, Louis Sharp — 3rd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer, Maude Simmons — 4th Sharecropper, David Wayne (26) — Og
Musician: Sonny Terry — Harmonica
Notes: Recorded March 30, April 3, 7, 10, 1947.
Shortcode: [r3878]

Releases (4)

Format: LP
Label: Columbia OS 2080
Released: 1962
Audio: Duophonic
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Format: LP
Label: Columbia OL 4062
Released: 1962
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Format: LP
Label: Columbia ML 4062
Released: 1948
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Format: LP
Label: Philips BBL 7466
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Notes: U.K. issue
# Tracks: 12
Lists: 3 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl25226]

Side A:
1. Overture
2. This Time Of Year
3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra?
4. If This Isn't Love
5. Look To The Rainbow
6. Old Devil Moon
Side B:
1. Something Sort Of Grandish
2. Necessity
3. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich
4. The Begat
5. When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love
6. That Great Come And Get It Day