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Book by E. Y. HARBURG and FRED SAIDY Lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG Music by BURTON LANE
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PRODUCTION STAFF
Stage Managers _. _
MR. B.HANSON
Assistant
MR. P. WHITE
Set Designers MISS N. GILHOOLY,
MR. G. BARANCHUK
Set Construction Supervisors MR. B.
HANSON, MR. P. WHITE
Lighting & Special Effects Technician
_ MR. R. PEARCE
Wardrobe Mistress _ ..
MRS. P. McDOWELL
Properties MISS D. HOBBS, MRS. C. MARCUS
Make Up ......
_ _ __ MR. H. CORRIN
Business Manager & Ticket Sales _...
_ MR. G. McKAY
Assistant
MR. R. McKENZIE
Publicity & Promotion Director
_ MR. G. McKAY
Advertising Production Manager _
MISS N. GILHOOLY
Programmes
MR. C. J. KOTCHAPAW
THE LEADS
CATHIE ROLLANDS
AS
SHARON McLONERGAN
DAVE GREEN
AS
FINIAN McLONERGAN
ARMAND CONANT
AS
OG, THE LEPRECAUN
RANDY HUNT
AS
WOODY MAHONEY
JAN WILLIAMSON
AS
SUSAN "THE SILENT"
- and -
DEBBIE FISHER (Understudy)
- FRIDAY PERFORMANCE -
OUR THANKS TO:
LIGHTING CREW —Bill Horseman, Taylor Morey, Cornelius Holtz.
STAGE CREW —David Day, Paul Pettijean, Robert Rogoski, Edgar Bath, Don
Turcott, Jim Findlay, John Podlipski, Wayne Roszell, Ray Smith, Peter
Hilge, Mark Guest.
COSTUME ASSISTANTS—Jo-anne Hawker, Carol Bell, Susan Warder, Chris
Shaw, Wilma Donkers.
MAKE-UP TEAM —Paul Bowlby, Karen Blake, Carol Fox, Judy Forsythe, Susan
Britton, Sharon Coburn, Janet Tilston.
STUDENTS' COUNCIL —For financing the production and aiding greatly in the
promotion and sale of tickets.
MR. LUDWIG, MR. WELBOURN & ASSISTANTS in construction of stage props
ADVERTISERS who made this souvenir programme possible.
COMPLIMENTS OF
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Ltd.
R.S. Greene, Phm. B.
_ J Pickering,
Phone
=- Ontario
942-5961
COMPLIMENTS OF
Madill & Fossey
CUSTOM BUTCHERS
Specializing in 68 Kingston Rd.,
Home Freezer Meats Pickering
COMPLIMENTS OF
MOODIE'S MOTOR INN
DINING LOUNGE & LOUNGE FULLY LICENSED
Exit 65 MacDonald - Cartier Freeway
77 On No. 2 Hwy., Pickering, Ontario
COMPLIMENTS OF
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SALES & SERVICE
CHRYSLER CORPORATION
Pickering
942-5540
THE CAST
(In Order of Appearance)
Buzz Collins, The Senator's "Yes Man" _ _
_ _ Bill Palm
The Sheriff _ _ _ . _ _.
__. P. White
1st Sharecropper _ _ _ _
_ Greg Gammon
2nd Sharecropper _ _
_. Allan Conant
3rd Sharecropper _ _._ _ _ _
_. Ron Anderson
Susan Mahoney, a deaf mute _ _ _ _
_ Jan Williamson
Debbie Fisher
Maude, a tobacco picker _ _
Carole Potentier
Dolores, a tobacco picker
Dianne Potter
Arlene, a tobacco picker
... Sharon Davis
Sharecroppers' Children:
Henry, Susan's dance interpreter _ __ _
_ Colin Walker
Honey Lou ... .. _ _ _. _ _ _ _ _ _
Anne Arsenault
Diana _ _ _ _ .. ... _ .....
_ _ Patti Barchard
Jane .. ......... ____. _ _ _ _
Ruth Hoskins
Finian McLonergan _. _ ..
... Dave Green
Sharon McLonergan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Cathy Rowlands
Jan Umphrey
Woody Mahoney, Susan's brother _ .
_ Randy Hunt
Og, a Leprechaun _ ......................................
Armand Conant
Howard, a negro college student ................ _
.... Grant Bowlby
Senator Billboard Rawkins, of Missitucky ..................
Dunstan Morey
First Geologist _I .....................................................
Greg. Gammon
Second Geologist ...................... .......................
Evert Meiljerink
The Preacher _...............
_..._ P. White
Mr. Robust, a partner of "Shears & Robust Ltd."
_. Ron Anderson
Mr. Shears, the other partner .... ................ ..
Fred Schram
1st Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer ........ ....... _.. _.
_ Grant Bowlby
2nd Passion Gospeleer ... ......................
Greg. McKechnie
3rd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer ...... .............. __
_ _.. Fred Schram
Deputy _ _ _ _ _ ............
_ .. ... Ken Pratt
SINGERS AND DANCERS
Ron Anderson, Anne Arsenault, Patti Barchard, Grant Bowlby, Geoffrey Brock,
Allan Conant, Sharon Davis, Debbie Fisher, Greg. Gammon, Deb Graham, Ruth
Hoskins, Eric Hughes, Hilary Lawson, Cathy McKay, Evert Meijerink, John
Moss, Carole Potentier, Kathy Pegg, Dianne Potter, Kathy Robinson, Jan
Umphrey, Colin Walker, Jan Williamson, P. White.
synopsis of scenes and musical numbers
SCENES
ACT ONE
Scene 1.
The meetin' place, Rainbow Valley,
Missitucky, U.S.A.
Scene 2.
The same. That night.
Scene 3.
The colonial estate of Senator Billboard
Rawkins. The next morning.
Scene 4.
The meetin' place. Following day.
Scene 5.
A path in the woods.
Scene 6.
The meetin' place. Next morning.
ACT TWO
Scene 1. Rainbow Valley. A few weeks later
Scene 2. A wooded section of the hills.
Scene 3. The meetin' place.
Scene 4. Just before dawn.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
This time of the Year ..................... Susan and Ensemble
How are Things in Glocca Morra ................ _....___.__. Sharon
Look to the Rainbow ......................... Sharon and Ensemble
That Old Devil Moon .......................... Woody and Sharon
Something Sort of Grandish ................. Sharon and Og
Dance: If This Isn't Love ....... _. Susan and Dancing Ensemble
Reprise: Something Sort of Grandish _.._ Og
Necessity ____......._... Maude, Dolores, Arlene and Girls
That Great Come -and -Get -it Day Woody, Sharon,
Preacher and Singing and Dancing Ensemble
ACT TWO
When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich Susan, Children,
Sharon and Singing and Dancing Ensembles
Reprise: "Old Devil Moon" ___._ Sharon and Woody
Ballet of the Golden Crock Susan accompanied by Sonny
The Begat Senator Rawkins, 131, 2nd and 3rd Gospeleer
Reprise: ''Look to the Rainbow _._....... Sharon, Woody and
Singing Ensemble
When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love __... Og and Susan
Reprise: "It This Isn't Love" Sharon, Woody, Finian,
Children, Singing and Dancing Ensembles
Finale Entire Company
THE STORY OF "FINIAN'S RAINBOW"
Everyone in the world knows that all Americans are million-
aires. But only Finian McLonergan, of Glocca-Morra, Ireland,
knows why.
By a process of mathematics, logic and moonbeams, he has
found the answer: it is the soil of Fort Knox that makes this
so. There's something magical about that soil. It gives to gold
phenomenal qualities hitherto unsuspected even by the gold
itself. Thus equipped with powers verging on the atomic, the
gold in Fort Knox performs a wondrous work. It radiates a
powerful influence throughout America, fertilizing the oranges
in Florida, activating the assembly lines in Detroit, and pro-
ducing a bumper crop of millionaires.
If this reasoning is false, then why did they rush to dig gold
out of the ground in California in 1849, only to bury it in the
ground of Fort Knox a century later?
This is the McLonergan Theory, and the exciting corollary is
all to plain: any man can bury a bit of gold in the ground,
near Fort Knox, and become a millionaire.
Finian knows his economics, but he also knows his lovely
and spirited daughter, Sharon. He'll never get her to America
to try out his theory if he tells her the truth. So he invents a
mythical case of arthritis for himself, and fills her full of pity
with a story that the only climate to cure it is found in Rainbow
Valley, in the State of Missitucky, U.S.A. near Fort Knox.
Getting the gold to launch his project is for Finian, less a
problem. Some of his best acquaintances are gnomes and
elves, and the leprechauns whose crock of gold provides the
power to make wishes for the mortals of Ireland. So he ''bor-
rows" the little fellows' crock.
Finian gets to Rainbow Valley with Sharon and plants the
crock. The leprechaun comes in pursuit, uttering dire warn-
ings of misery and destruction. Wishes are made on the crock
(it's good for only three wishes in the hands of a mortal) and
history veers crazily from its path. The news gets out that
gold has been discovered on McLonergan's property. Credit
and calico gowns and tractors pour in upon the people of the
Valley. Finian's theory comes true. Sharon is about to get
that rainbow her father has always promised her — a boy for
her heart and pennies for her purse — when the leprechaun's
doleful predictions materialize.
Not for good, of course, but long enough to make you wonder
what next?
And if you don't believe in leprechauns — well, considering
the state of the world, it must just be that leprechauns find it
hard to believe in people.
IN REHEARSAL FOR THE SHOW
Finian McLonergan and his
daughter Sharon discover the
magic of Rainbow Valley.
"If This Isn't Love'; muses Og
after experiencing a human trans-
formation at the hands of Sharon
McLonergan.
ORCHESTRA:
Organ
Percussion .....I .............
Vibraphone............... ...........................
Piano_...........................................
Conductor
Susan "the Silent". Her tongue
is tied until opened by the magic
of a pot of gold.
Senator Rawkins is determined to
go to any extremes to keep the
dam from being built in Rainbow
Valley.
Mrs. Eileen Bath
...... Vic. Oakley
Charlotte Sullivan
................... Florence Giddings
Linda Paterson
Mrs. Virginia Sullivan
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IN REHEARSAL FOR THE SHOW
The sharecroppers of Rainbow Valley when "The Great Come and
Get It Day" arrives.
Finian and the
Leprechaun share
their feelings about
Glocca Morra.
THANK YOU
We (the performers) are bound to receive most of the credit if
our show is a success, but we humbly confess that we hardly deserve
it. The audience seldom realizes the countless hours of work involv-
ing the men and women behind the scenes.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude to
Mr. Cafik, our director, who toiled strenuously with the leads and
chorus; to Malcolm Gale, our choreographer, who tried desperately to
teach us to dance; and to Mrs. Sullivan and Mr. Clark, who con-
ducted and arranged all the musical numbers. This was accomplished
after coping many nights and days with a rowdy chorus and tempera-
mental leads. We also thank their helpers —Miss Giddings, Miss
Paterson, and Mr. Wilson, and the host of others, mentioned else-
where in the program, without whose help the show would never have
been possible.
Oh yes, and the most important thank you of all goes to you, our
audience who made the whole thing worthwhile.
—Dunstan Morey, on behalf of the Cast.
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