OK, I'm an old romantic. If you know the legend of Brigadoon, one of my favorite descriptions of love in a quote from a movie "Brigadoon"......""A stranger can stay if he loves someone here - not jus' Brigadoon, mind ye, but someone in Brigadoon - enough to want to give up everythin' an' stay with that one person. Which is how it should be. 'Cause after all, lad, if ye love someone deeply, anythin' is possible."
That’s so beautiful. And doesn’t it feel like that when you fall in love for the first time? Like you could miss a hundred years fly by around the two of you and for you it was 1 day? 💙💚
The principal story line was strongly influenced by choreographer Agnes DeMille - brought early into the Lerner-Loewe team for the musical’s dance segments. She and Trude Whitman expanded the story-line character who performs the sword dance - expanding the Chase following sequence - the villagers looking for him in the highlands…! To catch him before he escapes Brigadoon…!
What a great musical. Not one musical has "borrowed" anything from this musical story-wise. It's a one-of-a-kind story. EVERY character is perfectly cast. Music and lyrics - always rememberable. Almost 70 years later and people still remember these songs. It was 30 years between viewing and I remembered every word. True genius.
They were indeed, horrible destructive women. I don't suppose you have such women in your country? Witches? Oh we have 'em, we pronounce it differently! LOL had me rolling
Still think of the young guy who dies: He wasn't consulted about the town's change; He wanted to see some of the world; He wanted to go to university; That very day the girl he was sweet on was marrying someone else.
MGM original film plan was to shoot on location in Scotland. Because Paint your Wagon musical was given priority - Brigadoon was returned to Culver City - entirely filmed in the MGM studio’s sound stages. The exteriors were built with scenic drops hung 360 on the stage’s interior wall-4- sides. Landscaping constructed on top of platforms.. studio carpenter & greens department all built.
THANK YOU for this. It is poignant. I grew up on this musical and others from this era. Whenever I find myself awake at night, as an empathetic soul, I do recall this scene -- specifically when Mr. Lundie mentions how they feel they hear some voices at night (the outside world). Catharrtic.
Loosely based on the movie Shagrila , about a legendary Eden like place in the Hlmilayian Mountains, it's a good movie. Shan gri la,, was based on the legend of a plane crash in those mountains . Supposedly, five people survive and wake up in this beautiful place where there is no sickness or death. However, one man gets homesick and escapes with a young girl . Once out in the elements, she falls sick and he tries to find the place again. She dies but he is rescued. He tells his story but no one believes him. However, planes have actually flown over that region in search of it. The actual guy had his story published but apparently the place if it exists is in a different dimension or time. Too bad it doesn't exist. I would love to live in such a place.
Witches, 200 years in the past? I.E sometime in the 1740`s or `50`s. Cue season 1 of Outlander. The writers didn`t really pay that much attention to actual Scottish history or they might have seen fit to add an extra day or two and assume the start of "the blessing" was sometime in the 1500`s or 1600`s.
