Irish Repertory artistic director Charlotte Moore adapted the 1947 Yip Harburg/Fred Saidy-Burton Lane musical satire Finian’s Rainbow, and turned it into a major hit off-Broadway revival of 2004, winning raves and a many-times extended run. The cast album was released on Ghostlight Records. In 2016, the beloved musical returned to the Irish Rep stage, twelve years after it was first revived to great acclaim. Tony-nominee Melissa Errico reprised her celebrated performance as “Sharon.”

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.”