The run closed December 15, 1928
- Opened
- November 21, 1928
- Closed
- December 15, 1928
- Performances
- 29
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gallo Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 1,293rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it88 named
Margaret Alexander
Ward Arnold
Ann Austin
May Barnes
James H Beattie
Sadie Black
Chester Bree
Harriette Brinton
Milton Brodus
Phyllis Buck
Virla Buley
Lee Byrne
Bobbie Campbell
Mary Carney
Vladimir Chavdaroff
Kitty Coleman
Ann Constance
Christine Crane
Vincent Curran
Thomas Dendy
Dorothy Dodd
Leo Dugan
Stewart Edwards
La Vergne Evans
Fanny
Grace Fleming
Maud Florenz
Randall Fryer
Vincent Funaro
Frank Gagen
Christine Gallagher
Christopher Gerard
Margaret Grove
J Donald Heebner
Ludovic Huot
Cyril Joyce
Evelyn Kermin
Frank Kimball
Frank King
Harry Lake
Larry Larkin
Rupert Lucas
Helen Lynd
Charles Mack
Leo Mack
Helen Madigan
George Magis
Edith Martin
Ruth Martin
Pauline Maxwell
Glenn Mccomas
Clinton Mcleer
Betty Mcnulty
Beth Meredith
Mildred Morgan
Leo Nash
Edward Nemo
Ruby Nevins
Raymond Otto
Lewis Parker
Henry Pemberton
Dorothy Pensel
John Perkins
Margaret Pidgin
Charles Ralph
Helen Rauth
Rowena Scott
Betty Sherman
Thomas Sternfeld
Paul Taft
Lu Talbott
Margaret Todd
Valla Valentinova
Efin Vitis
Ralph Walker
Jean Watson
Betty Waxton
Emily Wentz
Claire White
Eleanor Witmar
8 of these 88 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 80 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Choreographer
- Busby Berkeley
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
This ambitious frontier musical featured music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Despite its impressive pedigree and spectacular staging, it ran only 29 performances.
The album Barry Manilow’s Showstoppers was released by Arista Records (CD # 07822-18687-2); for “Look to the Rainbow” Manilow was joined by Barbara Cook, and for “Fugue for Tinhorns” the trio was sung by Michael Crawford, Hinton Battle, and Manilow. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 78
- Marilyn Cooper starred in Golden Rainbow (1968), a musical version of the play A Hole in the Head. The last show of the decade was the smash musical Promises, Promises, Neil Simon's adaptation of the film The Apartment, with a jaunty score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, starring Jerry Orbach. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 105
- After Mayflowers, it housed such short-lived shows as The Matinee Girl, Mama Loves Papa, Rainbow Rose, and My Country. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 223
- The 1954-55 season brought revivals of major Broadway musicals (which often transferred directly from their Broadway runs, with cast and designs intact): Carousel, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Finian's Rainbow, and Damn Yankees with the original leads: Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Stephen Douglass, and Jean Stapleton. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 318
- Among his theater works are poster illustrations for the Ethel Merman musical Stars in Your Eyes, A Streetcar Named Desire, Orpheus Descending, Finian’s Rainbow, and The Skin of Our Teeth. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 196
- In 1940 Hart concluded the chorus of “That Terrific Rainbow” (act I, scene 3) with the following quatrain: “Though we’re in those GRAY clouds / Some day you’ll see / That terrific RAINBOW / Over you and me” Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 141
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Rainbow at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.