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Brigadoon

Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Songs from the musical such as " Almost Like Being in Love" have become standards. The story involves two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village which appears for only one day every hundred years. Tommy, one of the tourists, falls in love with Fiona, a young woman from Brigadoon.

The original production opened on Broadway in 1947 and ran for 581 performances. It starred David Brooks, Marion Bell, Pamela Britton, and Lee Sullivan. Brigadoon then received a West End production opening in 1949 that ran for 685 performances, and many revivals followed. A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse. A 1966 television version starred Robert Goulet and Peter Falk.

Brigadoon (disambiguation)

Brigadoon is a 1947 musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

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Brigadoon (film)

Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse. Brigadoon has been broadcast on American television and is available in VHS and DVD formats.

The 1954 film is not to be confused with the 1966 television film of the same title and essentially the same plot. The 1966 film was directed by Fielder Cook and stars Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes. It won five Primetime Emmy Awards.

Brigadoon (The Ancestors album)

Brigadoon is the third album by the rock group The Ancestors.

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She was already wearing her “uniform”—a pair of knee-length white cotton shorts and a short-sleeved turquoise cotton polo shirt with the name Brigadoon printed above the left breast in white letters that matched the script on the bow.

Out in the waler she suddenly saw Ron in the laden dinghy, heading for Brigadoon.

Vere was used to long and dedicated hours, but she had little experience of hard physical work, and aboard Brigadoon she was expected to be chambermaid, cleaner, laundrywoman and waitress.

But the only bathtub on Brigadoon was the one in the master stateroom, and she would only have been allowed an inch or two of water in the bottom, anyway.

Within a few minutes he had pulled up behind the large while hull of Brigadoon again, and Vere clambered onto the swimming platform.

Vere had gone ashore on Brigadoon’s previous visit and found it clean and be anti-fully designed, but curiously without a soul.

Business as Usual’s captain was a friend and would probably call over for a drink when Brigadoon’s guests went ashore.

Safely back aboard Brigadoon twenty minutes laler, Vere felt so let down, physically and emotionally, she could have wept.

There was a lette Vere from Alexa, and another from Jill, telling her Brigadoon was taking a one-week charier to Martinique would be in Saint Lucia again the following Saturday.

And although Brigadoon was often nearby, only once or twice had the two yachts actually been in/he same harbour together, and there had been no chance of her seeing Sill or Ronald.

As soon as she could, Vere went to the wheelhouse and asked to use the radio to call Brigadoon.

For now, accepting the weirdness of things, she closed her mouth, smiled however wonder-ingly, and said, 'Aye, mah brave laddie, exactly like in Brigadoon.

We had a picket at Brigadoon, but the raiders either took her out before she got her drone off, or else nailed it before it wormholed.

Sohegan was Brigadoon, settling back to sleep after a few glorious hours in the limelight.

I used to think we were kind of a blue-collar Brigadoon, the town that time and prosperity forgot.