Brigadoon

Show Description:

One of the most beloved American musicals, Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon not only propelled its composer and lyricist toward the front ranks of Broadway, as rivals to Rodgers and Hammerstein, but also introduced to musical theater a new type of other-worldly romanticism. Americans Tommy and Jeff, while on a hunting trip in Scotland, stumble on an unmapped village, whose citizens are in the midst of a fair and also celebrating the impending marriage of Charlie and Jean. Jean’s older sister Fiona and Tommy take an immediate liking to one another, while the brazen village lass Meg wastes no time in pursuing Jeff. When Tommy notes that the locals have never heard of a telephone and that Charlie has attached the date 1746 to his bible signature, he questions Fiona on the strange goings-on. She leads him to the local schoolmaster, Mr. Lundie, who explains that Brigadoon appears only one day every hundred years. Disenchanted by local events, Tommy and Jeff return to New York, but are soon drawn back to the Highlands. But Brigadoon has vanished … or has it? Song hits include Fiona’s “Waitin’ for My Dearie,” Tommy and Fiona’s “Almost Like Being in Love,” Tommy’s “There But for You Go I,” Charlie’s “Come to Me, Bend to Me,” and Meg’s show-stopping “The Love of My Life.”