| re: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 03:32 pm EDT 03/20/21 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 03:23 pm EDT 03/20/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW - Michael_Portantiere 03:09 pm EDT 03/20/21 | |
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| I do think it was neat that the politics of FINIAN'S RAINBOW fit in so well with the sit-in era of the 1960s, but neither the Irish Rep productions nor the Broadway revival updated the action to the '60s, so obviously they didn't feel the politics needed to be updated in that way. Nor did I. Just to be clear, I'm not insisting that the action of the musical needs to be updated. But I do think that the politics of the book need to be engaged with in some way by the production to bring the musical into the present. I don't necessary feel this way about other musicals, operas or plays but I do think FINIAN'S RAINBOW needs it and makes even less sense as a frozen period piece. There is quite a bit of continuity between the leftist anti-racism of the late 1940's and the 1960's and actually the present BLM era. I didn't see the Irish Rep. production either. From the NYT's review: After all, “Finian’s Rainbow” occupies its own special real estate in the universe of musical fantasy. It’s a place where talented people can be any age they choose, and where a racially divided American South can resolve its tensions with a sprinkling of gold fairy dust and a swell, soaring song. It is a fine little corner, in other words, in which to escape the shrill din of a contentious political fall. The Coppola film's climax is actually pretty violent and scary even with the story's pixie dust and it makes that final swell of soaring song even more poignant. |
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