I hope this is in the right place. So, my wife's grandfather passed away recently, and I went up to his old house to help my in-laws clean out the home. I was downstairs looking at his old vinyl record player and found some old records. As I was looking, I came upon this record.
I was very intrigued when I saw the cover. I have never heard of Brigadoon before, but the bagpipes, obviously, grabbed my attention. I only know what I have read on the back. Apparently it was a Broadway show that became a TV series. That is pretty much all it tells me. Here is a quick video of the back of it (sorry but pictures would not take very well. this was the best I could come up with):
I will probably do a good search tomorrow on this. But I was wondering if any of you more seasoned and mature members of this forum remember this. I would love to hear what you remember about Brigadoon. It would help me appreciate it a lot more than just doing a google search.
It also starred Van Johnson and the beautiful Cyd Charrise. It is a wonderful story and a wonderful play and movie. I played one of the villagers in a little theater production many moons ago before I knew of being kilted.
Not a series, that one, but a 1966 Emmy-winning television special.
I was in a production of the play as an undergraduate, in Nova Scotia, yet only by the last performance did I manage to convince the rest of the kilted men in the cast that underwear was inappropriate. Even the high-stepping dance moves caused us no problems, but the guy playing poor Harry Beaton managed a more spectacular than usual 'fall' for his death scene. He was not amused by the result, but others were...
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Garrett
"Then help me for to kilt my clais..." Schir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
There's a copy of that same album buried here somewhere...I have lots of records.
I remember that one well. Watched it when it aired. Yes, it is very stage-y but whaddaya want...it's Lerner and Lowe and it was written in the fifties. All of those fifties musicals were unreal. Think about "Carousel"...spousal abuse, robbery, premarital sex, unwed mothers, murder...but everybody remembers it as a warm and charming piece of work. Go figger...
Robert Goulet...BIG voice. Sally Ann Howes...okay but Cyd Charisse from the earler Gene Kelly version walks away with the "chick I'd rather be checking out the Heather On The Hill with" award. Peter Falk...was he ever that young? Edward Vilella was the ballet superstar of his time...think of an earlier Baryshnikov.
I'm looking at the IMDB page on this one to refresh my memory and the one thing that I'm a bit hazy on is the casting of Finlay Curie in this production. I thought that ol' Finlay (who made a damn good living playing venerable old Scottish dudes) was in the Kelly version rather than this one but at my age the memory can blur things like this.
Armstrong Circle Theatre? Armstrong made (still makes) flooring. That was back when everybody was putting vinyl tile and that rolled flooring down all over their house to get that "clean, modern look". Those were the days when a company like Armstrong would sponsor something like this. Nowadays it takes Dreamworks and Tim Burton to do Sweeney Todd but back then they did a lot of this stuff on a somewhat humbler scale. There was hope for TV in those days...
... Think about "Carousel"...spousal abuse, robbery, premarital sex, unwed mothers, murder...but everybody remembers it as a warm and charming piece of work. Go figger...
I am also still paying for dragging my lovely wife to see "Carousel" at a local theater and that was almost 15 years ago!
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Brice, I'm surprised you had never heard of it. The term "Brigadoon" is commonly used to describe the kind of hazy, romanticized view of old Scotland to which Americans are prone.
Nice. I'm not a fan of musicals (well, excepting Dr.Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) but I did enjoy the local version the Lindsay theatre did some years ago - mainly because my Dad was called in to play the part of the piper.
Now, small town theatres don't exactly have the space to quietly float in a full set of Highland Pipes, so he cheated - they opened the side door back stage and had him walk up the sidewalk, into the door and onto the stage, then later, back out again. I have to say the effect was fantastically haunting.
Probably the best theatre experience I've had.
Originally Posted by auld argonian
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