Photo Flash: First Look at West End's FINIAN'S RAINBOW- Opens Tonight!

A brand new production of Finian's Rainbow, directed by Phil Willmott, transferred to Charing Cross Theatre after a sold-out run at the Union Theatre- and it opens tonight! BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below!

This enchanting musical by composer Burton Lane (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) and lyricist E.Y Harburg (Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Brother Can You Spare a Dime?) contains some of the loveliest musical theatre songs ever written including Old Devil Moon, If This Isn't Love, Look to the Rainbow and How are Things in Glocca Morra? Comedy writer Fred Saidy and Harburg integrated them into an unashamedly silly plot involving an Irish immigrant, pursued by a leprechaun, hoping to grow gold in the soil around Fort Knox whilst finding a husband for his daughter. The result was a hit Broadway musical, and a much loved film version starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark and Tommy Steele.

The cast includes James Horne (Finian), Christina Bennington (Sharon), Raymond Walsh (Og), Joseph Peters (Woody), Michael J Hayes (Senator Rawkins) and Laura Bella Griffin (Susan).

Photo Credit: Scott Rylander