Finian's Rainbow on February 2, 2010. Finian's Rainbow Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane, produced by Lee Sabinson. The original 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances, while a film version was released in 1968 and several revivals have followed. Finian moves to the southern United States (the fictional state of Missitucky is a combination of Mississippi and Kentucky) from Ireland with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief that it will grow. Og, a leprechaun,
At the End of the Rainbow mind-boggling children's film, straight from the mid-Sixties, when Americans would dump their youth at the local theater's "Kiddie Matinee" and subject the poor tots to all manner of cinematic torture. Such as "The Princess and the Magic Frog", a long-unseen rarity that's so hilariously impoverished, it makes "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder" look like a multimillion-dollar work of art. [...] There's more that a whiff of "Wizard of Oz" wafting through "The Princess and the Magic Frog", from the child who can't find his way home, to the Wicked Witch, er...Wizard, to the search for the end of the rainbow." With