Brigadoon - Broadway - 1980 - Lerner & Loewe 

What a rare and wonderful find. I remember when this revival was playing; I missed it, and regretted it.

Thanks for posting! I played Harry Beaton in high school, although our production simplified the choreography... later I saw this revival on Broadway and John Curry (ice skater!) did a great job, as did the rest of the cast. At Adelphi U in Long Island NY I went to college and met Edward Villella, who had been in the tv production. Then years later when I operated the carousel in Central Park I met James Mitchell, from the original Broadway cast. I’ve always loved this musical’s story and songs, as well as “Carousel”... (my high school did that too!)...they’re both musicals with a lot of depth, substance, philosophy and emotionally universal themes.

I was in the chorus when Glenn Close did this in college. Even then, you could see.

I was in a high school production of Brigadoon in 1978. Not up to Broadway standards of course, but very well received by our audiences and we were all proud of it. Hearing those wonderful songs and dialogue again really takes me back. Thanks so much for posting🙂.

Wonderful production, beautiful score! But what happened to the vocal portion of "My Mother's Wedding Day"? I believe one its dance is included here. Great show nonetheless. Ms.Bussert ia excellent!

Thank you for posting this. This was my first Broadway show, I played Sandy Dean. I was very proud of the production and it was a lovely cast of actors, singers, and dancers.

This is such an underappreciated musical! I was in a production of Brigadoon back in 2009 in Theatre School. Such a charming and magical show!

Wow, I just love this show: the music, the story, everything. Hoping to play Tommy one day. There are a lot of great baritone roles in golden age musical theater but few that are quite as beautiful, light, and "sweet" while simultaneously meaningful and complex as Tommy. That being said, they seemed to have raised a few keys in this production for Mr. Vidnovic? Perhaps he was a higher baritone or maybe a bari-tenor?

This was one of the first shows I saw when I moved to New York. ("On the 20th Century" was the first.) It was directed by Vivian Matalon, who was a hot director just coming off the wonderful "Morning's at Seven" revival, and he brought out all the sincerity and conviction it required. Vidnovic was terrific, Bussert was extraordinary--Frank Rich wrote, "one really wonders if Broadway has seen anything like her since Barbara Cook and Mary Martin in the '50s." Watch how she BELIEVES in what she's playing, and the radiance it spreads. It was a cherished memory, and how surprised and grateful I am to find it here. Thank you so very much.

Meg's singing is................... interesting.

This wonderful(Stage) Musical suffers from people's impressions of it (In whatever production)due to what Gene Kelly did to it in the movie version.He cut nearly half of the songs,and much of the music that was cut were used for the extended dance sequences.So people expect the stage version to be more dancing,and less singing. If you only knew the movie version then that might be fine but then the movie version is NOT Brigadoon.

This was a wonderful production of this Lerner-Loewe classic that was sadly neglected by audiences. But it had terrific leads in Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, wonderful scenery and costumes, and no less than Agnes DeMille personally restaging her classic choreography. And oh, something else -a REAL ORCHESTRA. So enjoy this example of Great Classic Broadway.

I saw THIS production on Broadway in 1980. I am stunned to find this here. I loved it - thank you so much for uploading this. I got choked up watching this

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Damien, thanks to you I'm reliving such happy memories! My parents took me to this for my 15th birthday, my third B'way show (still have the Playbill). It is exactly as I remember, Elaine Hausman is as obnoxious as ever, God love her! Over the years, I've gotten to meet a few cast members, Mr. Vidnovic, Kenneth Kantor, the extraordinary Jack Dabdoub. Life has been made somewhat better tonight.

I saw a wonderful production of "Brigadoon" at London's, Victoria Palace Theatre in 1988, which has always remained in my mind... I subsequently saw the film version on television, which was dreadful, simply because it lost its charm, whereupon several songs, to its detriment, had been "cut' from the movie. Just listen to the music and wonderful lyrics of Meg Brockie's two "cut" numbers... "The Love of My Life" and My Mother's Wedding Day... Wonderful theatre.

It was a great role for Mark Zimmerman! Loved, loved, loved Meg Bussart!

Thank you so much for posting this! This is one of the most charming musicals ever to be created, and a favorite of mine. It is so enchanting, and I think it brings hope to the weary and restless-- hope that there is a "Brigadoon" for them somewhere in the world. The dancing, singing, costumes, scenery-- all superb in this production. Revival, where you at??

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Aahh,beautiful dances recreated by James Jamieson, dancer in the original production, thank you.

Don't remember this production existed, but I have worked with Marty Vidnovic, a wonderful singer. He never had the career he deserved. Wonder where he is now?

Brigadoon = Shangri-La

first Broadway show I ever saw.

if anyone know where i can get a recording of just the ballet song after come to me bend to me that would be amazing

This is my absolute favourite show of all time and this brought me to tears. Thank you.

Wish the quality wasn't so poor as it would be nice to see this as it was meant to be seen, not as the very poor job Hollywood did under Gene Kelly with exaggerated dance routines. Though what do you expect in any vehicle he was in. I play organ and piano so I wondered where all the sheet music numbers that are associated with this show had disappeared to when I saw the film. Simply cut, I wonder who made that decision.

Glorious!

Bravo! Bravo!

Meg and Jeff 40:08

And making noise