most musicals are adapted from books, and this was just conceived by fred saidy and yip as a satiriche idle poor become the idle rich," how are you going to know who is who or who is which? >> ♪ when the idle poor become the idle rich ♪ ♪ >> and so "finian's rainbow" has become a classic. now, it's interesting that finian's has not had a tour, a national tour, since 1948. but they play it in every single high school in the united states, three or four times a month in every state of the union. so finian's was, at the time, 1947, when the cold war was beginning and the house un-american committee was starting up, and they were searching for lefties. and by 1951, yip had been blacklisted from any chance to do any of the wonderful shows that they did in hollywood, dr. doolittle, treasure island. he was blocked from working there. and then he was blocked from going into radio and into tv. so -- and this is an historical fact which yip himself says -- broadway and the american theater in new york city was the only place where an artist could stand up and say whatever he wanted provided he