Script
Audition Central: Finian's Rainbow JR.
Script: Finian Mclonergan
SIDE
FINIAN
Why, it's my grand experiment! The McLonergan theory of economics. Now what makes America different from Ireland?SHARON
It has more Irishmen?FINIAN
(pointing to map)Aye, child, there s more of everything. And do ye know why? I ll tell you why. Do you see Fort Knox right here? Well! The soil in and about Fort Knox brings a magical quality to the gold. Else why did they dig it from the ground in California only to bury it in the ground of Fort Knox a hundred years later! The gold radiates a powerful influence. It fertilizes the oranges in Florida, activates the assembly lines in Detroit, causes skyscrapers to sprout from the gutters of New York and produces a bumper crop of millionaires. All you have to do is plant a bit of gold in the ground and watch it grow and you become a millionaire. You re going to have everything you left behind in Glocca Morra and more!
(A skylark sound is heard.)
SHARON
Aye! Listen!FINIAN
Aye, 'tis the same skylark music we have in Ireland, lass.(A skylark is heard again.)
Do you hear it?
SHARON
Aye, a Glocca Morra skylark.