Theatre Register
Rainbow

Rainbow

Shows · Rainbow

Rainbow is a musical in two acts with music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book co-authored by Laurence Stallings and Hammerstein. After flopping on Broadway in 1928, it was adapted by Warner Bros.

Opened
1928
Performances
29
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Vincent YoumansLyrics: Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Laurence Stallings, Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions1 on Broadway

1928 Gallo Theatre Original. November 21, 1928 · Oscar Hammerstein II 29 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing not confirmed

Rights We have not been able to confirm the publisher.

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature32 passages

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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p105

After Mayflowers, it housed such short-lived shows as The Matinee Girl, Mama Loves Papa, Rainbow Rose, and My Country. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p223

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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p318

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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p196

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” book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p141

Songs interpolated from other Rodgers and Hart shows: “There’s a Small Hotel” (On Your Toes, 1936), “My Funny Valentine” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” (Babes In Arms, 1937), and “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (Too Many Girls,” 1939). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p566

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.