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    Advice needed

    I've been asked to play pipes for a high school production of Brigadoon. I'm really wary. I hate Brigadoon. At my high school, we called it "Brigadon't". I have never seen a production of Brigadoon that I liked, and I don't really want to be associated with a bad one. On the other hand, I could use the money, and perhaps I could ask to help on the costumes... What do you guys think?
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    If production is bad, you can still do the best from your side, I guess. Maybe the audiance will say:" Really bad, but the piper saved the day.."

    But, it's up to you...

    Good luck!

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    Console yourself with the thought that though the plot is crap and the costumes always seem to be anachronistic, that the music is good!
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    If you are included in the planning some how, then maybe it can become o.k. not good, or great, but o.k. If not at least the music will be great

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    Do it! First and foremost, it's a paying gig; and, you can always say that you piped for a Brigadoon production. My pipe instructor was also the piper in a Brigadoon production. He said it wasn't a great show, so he must have been the best part. He also gave them costuming tips.

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    Agreed with what Jack Daw has to say. Never turn down a paying gig, you never know what it might lead to.
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    I'm not a piper and have never seen a stage version of Brigadoon so take my advice with a very large block of salt.

    It's a paying gig. Do it.
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    Greg, take the gig, Brigadoon may not be your idea of a great show, but it is a gig and as has been stated you never know where it will lead. Besides perhaps you can bring something to the table that the production needs.

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    Take the job.

    Show them how a kilt is really worn and expose a lot of people to the music of the bagpipes (for many likely for the first time).

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    I agree: do it. Here's your chance to take something mediocre and make it better. At least the costumes should be able to be correct and the music will be good.

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