Line #5 Theatre/FiniansRainbow


1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AstaireClark2_711.jpg]]
2	->''"Petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley..."''
3	--> -- '''Sharon [=McLonergan=]'''
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5	A Broadway musical from 1947, created by Fred Saidy (book), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (book and lyrics), and Burton Lane (music). Due to its popularity it was revived several times, and it was adapted into a feature film in 1968, directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola as his first studio feature and starring Creator/FredAstaire and Music/PetulaClark.
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7	The story follows Finian [=McLonergan=], an Irish immigrant, and his daughter Sharon to Missitucky, USA. Finian has stolen a magical pot of gold from leprechauns back in Ireland and plans to plant it in the ground near Fort Knox. Og, a leprechaun in charge of the treasure, follows him, desperately trying to get the gold back. They arrive in Rainbow Valley, a small community led by the carefree Woody Mahoney, and matters are further complicated by the corrupt Senator Rawkins, Finian hiding and losing the gold, and the magical properties of the gold itself.
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10	!!This musical and its 1968 film adaptation provide examples of:
11	* AnAesop : Racism is not cool, OK?
12	* BlueBlood: Spoofed:
13	-->'''Finian''': Don't you realize, lad, Sharon is from quality stock? Why, her whole family tree for generations back consists of nothin' but ancestors.\
14	'''Woody''': We've been descendin' a long time too.\
15	'''Finian''': Ah, but ''how'' long? Sharon's grandparents go back to the dawn of history. Blue-blooded amebas they were, with a dauntless ambition. Up they came through the paleozoic slime -- from ameba to tadpole, from tadpole to daffodil, from daffodil to dromedary, and from dromedary to [=McLonergan=]. That's the background Sharon comes from -- so get along with your luggage, lad, you haven't a chance.
16	* BurnTheWitch: ''Almost'' happens to [[spoiler:Sharon and Woody, after Sharon [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay accidentally turns Rawkins black]]. They are saved JustInTime]].
17	* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Finian, at the end]].
18	* ColorMeBlack: Sharon tells a racist senator she wishes he were black so he would understand what black people have to go through due to people who think like he does. She happens to be standing where a pot of magical wish-granting gold is buried, so... well, you can guess where this is going.
19	* CueTheFlyingPigs
20	-->'''Woody''': I'll raise the money somehow.\
21	'''Buzz''': Money don't grow on trees, you know.\
22	''(Money starts falling from the tree they're standing under, thrown by Sharon who sits up there.)''
23	* CuteMute: Susan the Silent. [[spoiler:Until the end]].
24	** To be clear--she gets less [[spoiler:silent]], not less [[spoiler:cute]].
25	* DoubleStandard: "When the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hobos Idle Poor]] Become the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpperClassTwit Idle Rich]]" discusses this at length.
26	* DoomyDoomsOfDoom
27	--> '''Og''': Doom and gloom! ''[[ChewingTheScenery Dooooooom and gloooooooom]]!!!''
28	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Susan
29	* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The story takes place in the Rainbow Valley.
30	* GospelRevivalNumber: "On That Great Come-And-Get-It Day"
31	* HandsLookingWrong: Senator Rawkins confirms the [[ColorMeBlack change in the color of his skin]] by looking at his own hands.
32	* HaveAGayOldTime: From the opening ensemble number "This Time of the Year": "Persimmons are queer!"
33	* HeelFaceMindScrew: What Og does to [[spoiler:Rawkins]]. The HardTruthAesop that often comes with this trope is arguably made somewhat less creepy by the fact that Og is, y'know, ''[[TheFairFolk a lepre]][[BlueAndOrangeMorality chaun]]''.
34	* HumanityEnsues: Throughout the story, Og is slowly turning into a human due to losing his pot of gold. [[spoiler:By the end, he's become completely mortal. And he doesn't care]].
35	* InLoveWithLove: "When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love (I Love The Girl I'm Near)."
36	* {{Irishman and a Jew}}: Incorporates elements of Irish folklore (more or less) and features an Irish protagonist; the show was penned by an all-Jewish writing team.
37	* KarmicTransformation: Openly racist senator Rawkins gets turned black. The trope gets a nice twist when he gets to love his new life [[spoiler:and is forced to turn back by his own laws]].
38	* LargeHam: Og, in the film at least.
39	* LastSecondWordSwap: In "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich":
40	**
41	--->And when all your neighbours\
42	Are upper class\
43	You won't know your Joneses\
44	From your Astors
45	**
46	--->When we're in the dough\
47	And off of the nut\
48	You won't know your banker\
49	From your butler
50	%%* DistinctionWithoutADifference: In "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich", Finian explains this pretty clearly.
51	* {{Leprechaun}}: Og.
52	* ListSong: "The Begat."
53	* LoveAtFirstSight / FourthDateMarriage
54	* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: [[spoiler: Finian departs in this manner at the end of the film.]]
55	* {{Oireland}}: Supposedly where Finian and Sharon come from.
56	* MobileShrubbery: Hilariously performed by Og.
57	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Very obviously Missitucky.
58	* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Og and Susan]].
59	* PerfectlyCromulentWord: "Something Sort of Grandish" is built on this:
60	--> '''Og''': [...]It's so terrifish, magnifish, delish\
61	To have such an amorish, glamorish dish.\
62	We could be oh, so bride and groomish\
63	Skies could be so bluish blue.\
64	Life could be so love in bloomish,\
65	If my ishes could come true.
66	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Senator Rawkins is a vile racist.
67	* RhymingWizardry: Og casts a spell on the blackened Rawkins to cure him of his ill humor while chanting in rhyme.
68	* SceneryPorn: The beginning of the film.
69	* SexySoakedShirt: Susan gets wet in the "Rain Dance Ballet" scene.
70	* ThreeWishes: The magical pot of gold can grant them.

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