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Brigadoon

Shows · Brigadoon

The fantasy is about two American tourists, Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas (David Brooks and George Keane), who stumble upon a mist-clouded Scottish town that, they eventually discover, reawakens only one day every hundred years. Tommy, who enjoys wandering through the heather on the hill with a local lass, Fiona MacLaren (Marion Bell), returns to New York after learning of the curse that has caused the town’s exces…

Opened
1947
Performances
581
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Frederick LoeweLyrics: Alan Jay LernerBook: Alan Jay Lerner

Productions5 on Broadway

1947 Ziegfeld Theatre Original. March 13, 1947 · Robert Lewis 581 performances
1950 City Center Revival. May 2, 1950 · Robert Lewis 24 performances
1957 Revival Theatre not recorded. April 9, 1957 47 performances
1980 Majestic Theatre Revival. October 16, 1980 · Vivian Matalon 133 performances
2010 Shubert Theatre Revival. June 14, 2010 · Charlotte Moore 1 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Brigadoon matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature52 passages

A Broadway revival of Brigadoon in 1980 did not remain awake very long, but a 1986 production by the New York City Opera was well received. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p133

As of this writing, the musical has enjoyed ten New York revivals. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p56

Brigadoon was first seen in London on April 14, 1949, at His Majesty’s Theatre for 685 performances, which was a longer run than the Broadway production. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p59

Marion Bell (Brigadoon ’s original Fiona), who played Maeve; Cecil Kellaway was replaced by Bert Wheeler, Gerri Teasley by Charlotte Rae, William Skipper by Peter Conlow, and Minor Watson by Malcolm Keen. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p242

Atkinson also appeared in Brigadoon when the musical was revived by the New York City Center Light Opera Company in 1957; book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p370

In reviewing the current revival of Brigadoon, Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times noted that Lerner and Loewe had “the two finest musical plays on Broadway at the moment” and Walter Kerr in the New York Herald Tribune said Brigadoon was “quite possibly the simplest smash hit ever to stray onto Broadway.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p620

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