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BRIGADOON A musical play in 2 acts, a prologue and 11 scenes: Music by Frederick Loewe; Libretto and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Ziegfeld Theatre, New York - March 13, 1947 (581 perfs) Her Majesty's Theatre, London - April 14, 1949 (685 perfs) THE STORY (The Scottish Highlands, 200 years ago) Two Americans, Tommy Albright and his pal Jeff Douglas, chance upon a small Scottish village in a Highland mist. They discover, mainly from the village schoolmaster Mr Murdoch, that Brigadoon is an enchanted place that only comes to life for one day every hundred years. Tommy and Jeff meet Fiona MacKeith and Meg Brockie, and Tommy and Fiona soon find in each other a deep understanding. We follow the villagers through a day that includes a wedding and learn that if one of the inhabitants should leave Brigadoon the spell will be broken for ever. There is near disaster when a young embittered Scot tries to take his revenge. He dashes towards the forest but is killed making his escape. Happiness is changed to mourning. Tommy has by now fallen deeply in love witb Fiona but he is told he cannot stay. He goes back with Jeff to New York and quarrels with his fiancee. Suddenly in a New York bar he sees a vision of Fiona and comes to a decision. He knows he must return to Scotland. There by the power of love he reawakens the slumbering Brigadoon just long enough for him to be reunited with Fiona. CAST OF CHARACTERS - with original London Cast: TOMMY ALBRIGHT - Philip HannaPlaybill for "Brigadoon" JEFF DOUGLAS - Hiram Sherman DONALD RITCHIE - John Rea HARRY RITCHIE - James Jamieson FISHMONGER - Daphne Starling ANGUS MacMONIES - Peter Dyneley SANDY - Wilfred Johns ANDREWMacKEITH - Roy Russell FIONA MacKEITH - Patricia Hughes JEAN MacKEITH - Bunty Kelley MEG BROCKIE - Noele Gordon CHARLIE CAMERON - Bill O'Connor MAGGIE ABERNETHY - Noelle de Mosa MR. MURDOCH - Ivor Barnard SWORD DANCERS - Anthony Burke; John Gregory; James White; Robert Harrold STUART CAMERON - Roy Roser MacGREGOR - Edward Hyde BAGPIPERS - David Ross; Robert Hill FRANK - Freddie Costello JANE ASHTON - Janet MacFarlane TOWNSFOLK OF BRIGADOON

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