| re: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW | |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 09:19 am EDT 03/19/21 | |
| In reply to: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW - singleticket 07:17 pm EDT 03/18/21 | |
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| You start with the supposition (not stated) that the stage version was cohesive, it was not. It was such a mishmash that somewhere along the line the book was seriously reworked, I think by Fred Saidy the original author. Even then the story line is not what brings people to this musical, it is the score. "How Are Things in Glocca Mora," "Old Devil Moon," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" and those are just the hits. "Necessity," "The Begat" "When the Idle Poor." The extremely well cast Encores production transferred to Broadway because of that score only to die a quick death. It just isn't revivable, nor a good candidate for a movie because it asks too much of audiences, suspend disbelieve and ignore the all over the place plotting. | |
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