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 it plays more like something you'd watch at 3 a.m. after a long night of overindulgence." And the "kiddie camp" connoisseurs at KiddieMatinee.com described the film writing, ""The Princess and the Magic Frog" (1965), produced and released originally as "At the End of the Rainbow", is a fascinating (albeit threadbare) U.S. fantasy film, very much in the spirit of similar mid-1960s Kiddie Matinee indie product such as "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", "The Magic Christmas Tree" and "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder". [...] (O)ne wonders if 60's tots would have found this odd fairy tale engaging or excruciating. It looks more