Title
Playwright
Frederick Lowe and Alan Jay Lerner
Performance Dates
October 19-20, 1956
Creative Team
Musical Director.............................Lee Shackson
Staging..........................................Marion Chase
Choreography................................Joanne Van Sant
Scene Designer.............................Betty Gibson
Stage Managers............................Ralph Bender and Keith Leonard
Accompanist..................................Eileen Fagan
Dance Accompanist.......................Thelma Speais
Synopsis
When New Yorkers Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas get lost on a vacation in the Scottish Highlands, they stumble into Brigadoon. Brigadoon is a mythical village that, they learn, appears for a single day once every hundred years. At first, Tommy and Jeff are mystified by the villagers’ 18th century garb as they go to market, but they are soon charmed by romantic liaisons: Tommy, who is engaged back in New York, falls terribly in love with headstrong Fiona, while Jeff enjoys a harmless flirtation with Meg Brockie. It is only when Harry Beaton, the rejected suitor of Fiona’s sister, Jean, tries to leave Brigadoon that the two men realize the complicated truth: at the end of the day, this town will disappear into the mist for the next hundred years –- and if anyone succeeds in leaving Brigadoon, the town and the people in it will be lost, forever. Tommy is forced to choose between returning to the world that he knows and his New York fiance — or taking a chance on life and love in a mysterious new place. Including such famous hits as “Heather on the Hill” and “Almost Like Being in Love,” Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon has music that will sweep you off your feet and a whimsical story that is a tribute to the power of true love.
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University, "Brigadoon" (1956). 1907-1958 Productions. 77.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/77