Brigadoon is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, first produced in 1947. It tells the story of a mysterious village in Scotland, which appears for only one day every hundred years. Far from being a curse, the enchantment is viewed by the villagers as a blessing. According to their covenant with God, no one from Brigadoon may ever leave the village, or the enchantment will be broken and Brigadoon and all its inhabitants will disappear into the mist forever. Two American tourists, lost in the Highlands, stumble upon the village just as a wedding is about to be celebrated, and their arrival has serious implications for the village's inhabitants.

The original Broadway production, directed by Robert Lewis and produced by Cheryl Crawford, opened March 13th, 1947. It starred David Brooks as Tommy, Marion Bell as Fiona, Lee Sullivan as Charlie, James Mitchell as Harry, and Pamela Britton as Meg. It ran for 581 performances and shared a Tony Award for Agnes De Mille's choreography. It also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, and has had many well-received revivals over the years.

A film version of Brigadoon, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was released by MGM in 1954 with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse in leading roles. Four of the show's musical numbers ("Come to Me, Bend to Me", "There But For You Go I", "From This Day On", and "The Sword Dance") were filmed and recorded, but cut prior to the film's release. The Breen office refused to allow the use of the two songs the Meg Brockie character sang in the stage version ("The Love of My Life" and "My Mother's Wedding Day"), as the lyrics were considered too risqué for general audiences. With the omission of these songs, the supporting role of Meg Brockie was reduced in the film to scarcely more than a bit part. The minor song "Jeannie's Packin' Up" was also omitted. Some of this was done because, after listening to Gene Kelly's pre-recordings of "There But For You Go I" and "From This Day On", the makers of the film felt that the results did not show his voice to its best advantage, but some was done because producer Arthur Freed wanted to shape the two-and-a-half hour stage musical into a film that ran 108 minutes.

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@ehasselbeck please listen. Not best impression at AMAs, Adam did theatre sings Brigadoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYyqzUr6jU
cunningdeb (Debbie Cunningham) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:37:38 -0000
@ehasselbeck please listen. Not best impression at AMAs, Adam did theatre sings Brigadoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYyqzUr6jU
Media call for YPCo's production of Brigadoon today. Support the next generation of theatre artists Thurs-Sun in Neptune's Studio.
NeptuneTheatre (Neptune Theatre) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:27:51 -0000
Media call for YPCo's production of Brigadoon today. Support the next generation of theatre artists Thurs-Sun in Neptune's Studio.
New Movie Added: Brigadoon http://www.watch-movies-online-free.tv/watch-online/brigadoon/
watch_movies_tv (Watch-Movies-Online) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:45 -0000
New Movie Added: Brigadoon http://www.watch-movies-online-free.tv/watch-online/brigadoon/
Brigadoon was interesting; a little structurally distended, but a fun and curious show nonetheless. Good night, Buffalo!
Ittousagi (Aaron Steimle) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:27:30 -0000
Brigadoon was interesting; a little structurally distended, but a fun and curious show nonetheless. Good night, Buffalo!
Watching Brigadoon is a little disorienting; it's shot with a wide-angle fisheye lens, to compensate (I suppose) for the projection method.
Ittousagi (Aaron Steimle) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:15:45 -0000
Watching Brigadoon is a little disorienting; it's shot with a wide-angle fisheye lens, to compensate (I suppose) for the projection method.
And now Brigadoon, for a light, Gene Kelley day's finale.
Ittousagi (Aaron Steimle) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:29:30 -0000
And now Brigadoon, for a light, Gene Kelley day's finale.

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