Finian's Rainbow

Cast included: Melissa Errico as Sharon McLonergan, Malcolm Gets, Mark Aldrich, Stephanie Fittro, Jonathan Freeman, Jonathan Hadley, A.J. Irvin, Kenneth-Michael Glass, Eric Jackson, Kevin Kern, Chad Kimball, Jayne Ackley Lynch, Kimberley Dawn Neumann, Kerry O'Malley, John Sloman, David Staller, Joacquin Stevens, Terri White and Max Von Essen

Irish Repertory artistic director Charlotte Moore adapted the 1947 Yip Harburg-Fred Saidy-Burton Lane musical satire, and turned it into a major hit off-Broadway revival of 2004, winning raves and a many-times extended run.  The cast album was immediately released on Ghostlight Records (www.ghostlightrecords.com).  Sharon has left Ireland with her father, Finian, to settle in the mythical Southern state of Missitucky. Finian has stolen a leprechaun's pot of gold, and the angry sprite, named Og, has followed the thief to America, where they encounter romance, but also bigotry, economic disparity and social injustice. The score is spiked with such popular show tunes as "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Look to the Rainbow," plus spicy comic and satiric songs such as "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love," "The Begat," "Necessity" and "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich."  (see reviews in PRESS)