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Educational Guide Finiansonbroadway.Com Music by Burton Lane Book & Lyrics by Yip Harburg Book by Fred Saidy Educational Guide educational guide FiniansonBroadway.com music By Burton lane Book & lyrics By yiP harBurg Book By Fred saidy educational guide written By Scott Lupi contriButing editors Susan Fuller, Marty Johnson, Lindsay Weiner Project manager Susan Fuller Production Photos © Joan Marcus layout & design: Danielle Johnson and Kevin M. Johnson created By iTheatrics.com www.FiniansonBroadway.com © iTheatrics 2009 INTRODUCTION HOW TO USE ThIS GUIDE ................................................................................2 BeFORE THE SHOW .......................................................................... 3–10 ABOUT THE SHOW Basic Plot Synopsis .................................................................................... 4–5 Character Descriptions ...................................................................................6 About the Writers ..........................................................................................7 Production History of the Show.......................................................................8 Vocabulary from Finian’s Rainbow ...................................................................8 IMPORTANT IDEAS IN THE SHOW Sharecroppers of the South ............................................................................9 Rainbows .....................................................................................................10 Leprechauns ................................................................................................10 aFTER THE SHOW ........................................................................... 11–18 IDEAS FOR CLASSROOM EXPLORATION How Are Things In Glocca Morra? – Community and Cultural Connections ........ 14–15 A. Beyond the Bounds of Bigotry ................................................................14 B. I Am From… Poems ..............................................................................15 The Begat – Making Sense of Satire .................................................................. 16–17 A. What Are They Really Saying? ...............................................................16 B. Sensational Satire ..................................................................................17 Taking It Further – Political Cartooning ...................................................17 Look To The Rainbow – Dreams of Hope, Home and the Heart ............................18 A. Where’s Your Rainbow? ..........................................................................18 B. Love is All Around ..................................................................................18 C. Look to the Rainbow Project...................................................................18 RESOURCES .................................................................................................19 TABLE oF CONTENTS FiniansonBroadway.com • Finian’s r ainBOW • INTRODUCTION how to use this guide dear teachers, Welcome to the Finian’s Rainbow Educational Guide. These materials can serve as a catalyst for educational enrichment beyond the performance. Inside this resource you’ll find a variety of activities that may either stand alone or work in sequence as a unit of study. Feel free to photocopy pages from this guide to distribute to your students. We have struc- tured the guide into three sections: Before the Show, After the Show, and Resources. The first section, Before the Show, provides infor- mation about the production, some historical back- ground, and other show-related information. The second section, After the Show, features activities and discussion topics to explore Finian’s Rainbow’s content in your classroom. Finally, the Resources section pro- vides information for delving deeper into the world of Finian’s Rainbow with websites, videos, and more. We hope this guide will inspire your students to further explore issues of community, segregation, and cultural celebration. Enjoy the Show! • FINIAN’s r ainBOW • FiniansonBroadway.com FiniansonBroadway.com • Finian’s r ainBOW • About the show Basic Plot synoPsis As the tale begins we learn that a spirited Irishman, Before attending the show, read the plot synopsis Finian McLonergan, along with his daughter, Sharon, aloud to your students. Have your students brain- (and followed by a leprechaun named Og) have trav- storm ideas about how the story will be enacted eled from Glocca Morra, Ireland to Rainbow Valley. live onstage including the “magic” moments. Have Finian, it turns out, has “borrowed” Og’s crock of them then create a list of predictions and hold onto gold to plant in the soil near Fort Knox so it will grow them. After the show, revisit these lists and see what comparisons emerge. and make him rich. But Og wants it back, for without it, all the Glocca Morra leprechauns will lose their magic powers and the crock of gold, which grants his whimsical magical fable-with-a-social-con- wishes, will turn to dross. The McLonergans arrive science takes place in the mythical state just as Buzz, a stooge for racist Senator Rawkins, tof Missitucky, USA, in a community called is trying to take the sharecroppers’ land away for Rainbow Valley. Rainbow Valley is special because inability to pay back taxes. Luckily, Woody gets home the owners, Woody Mahoney and his mute sister, from the city with money to pay the taxes. Unluckily, Susan, who “talks” with her feet by dancing, share he is sixty-five dollars short! Sharon, who is hiding the work and the land with an interracial, tight-knit in a tree, is touched by the community’s plight and community of sharecroppers. throws down a shower of bills to save the day. • FINIAN’s r ainBOW • FiniansonBroadway.com A highly original story unfolds, at once sentimen- Og are a happy couple and Finian goes on his way, tal, magical and satirical. Woody and Sharon fall in taking his rainbow of hope to others who need it. love as Finian secretly buries the crock. The Senator Classic songs from Finian’s Rainbow include: is about to throw all the citizens of Rainbow Valley off “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?,” “Old Devil their land for violating his “law of the south,” namely: Moon,” “When the Idle Poor Become the Idle whites and blacks cannot work or live side by side. Rich,” “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love,” “Look Sharon is outraged, and wishes that the Senator to the Rainbow,” “Necessity,” “Something Sort of could be black and feel the terrible pain of racism. Grandish,” “That Great Come-and-Get-It Day,” “If Because – without knowing it – she is standing over This Isn’t Love” and “The Begat.” the buried crock, it happens! The Senator turns black – the crowd is stunned – he is horrified, and runs off into the forest to hide. In preparation for your visit to see The sharecroppers learn there is gold in Rainbow Finian’s Rainbow, have your students Valley – though no one except Finian knows where it is. Assuming they will all be rich, they crazily order use the internet to visit the official everything they’ve ever wanted with their newly-avail- website for the Broadway production able line of credit. Susan the Silent enters, alone. As and peruse production pictures, videos she dances in the forest, magic seems to draw her to and more at www.finiansonbroadway.com. the place where Finian has buried the gold. She digs it up. Amazed and enchanted, she dances away, tak- ing the crock with her. As she dances off, Og enters, and soon after, a hungry, lonely, frightened black Senator stumbles onstage. Og casts a spell to cure the Senator of his bigotry! At Sharon and Woody’s wedding, the Sheriff ar- rives and takes them to jail for the crime of changing the senator from a white man to a black one. Finian knows that he can, by making a wish over the crock, turn the senator white again, and believes that all will soon be right with the world. But when he goes to dig up the crock, he discovers that it is missing – carried off by Susan in her mad dance. Just before dawn the next morning, Og discovers Susan sitting over the crock. He falls madly in love with her and sings, “When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love.” Meanwhile, Sharon, accused of witchcraft for turning Rawkins black, is about to face execution. But at the last minute, there are happy endings for all: Og discovers the crock and uses it to set things right; Sharon and Woody marry; the Senator discovers his humanity; Susan gains the power to speak; she and FiniansonBroadway.com • Finian’s r ainBOW • character descriPtions FINIAN McLONERGAN – A wily dreamer and fanciful BUZZ COLLINS – Stooge for Senator Rawkins philosopher from Ireland SHERIFF – The town’s sheriff who does everything SHARON McLONERGAN – Finian’s loving and long-suf- he can to enforce Rawkins’ law fering daughter SUNNY – The harmonica-playing musical town crier WOODY MAHONEY – Idealistic and charismatic DOTTIE – The unofficial “mayor” of Rainbow Valley; Rainbow Valley landowner mother of Henry SUSAN MAHONEY – Woody’s sister who speaks HENRY – Dottie’s ten-year-old son who interprets through dance or “foot talk” Susan’s “foot talk” OG – A leprechaun who is turning mortal DIANA – A ten-year-old girl, Henry’s best friend; she believes in make-believe SENATOR RAWKINS – The man who is trying to take control of the land in Rainbow Valley; he knows HOWARD – A determined, young black man who has how to play the game because he wrote the rules worked his way through three years of college but needs the money to finish BILL – Senator Rawkins, once he is turned black by Sharon’s wish ADDITIONAL TOWNSFOLK AND SHARECROPPERS • FINIAN’s r ainBOW
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