`` Donnybrook '' is no `` Brigadoon '', but it does have some very nice romantic background touches and some excellent dancing.

* The restaurant-style eating area is called The Brig, short for Brigadoon, commemorating a play about a mythical Highland village.

Fiona reminds him that the end of the day is near, and Tommy tells her he wants to stay in Brigadoon with her.

Jeff thinks the idea absurd and argues with Tommy until he has convinced him that Brigadoon is only a dream.

Tommy and Jeff return to the spot where Brigadoon was and, as they expected, nothing is there.

Ward Morehouse of The New York Sun deemed it " A stunning show ", saying, " It has whimsy, beguiling music, exciting dancing -- and it has a book .... Brigadoon is by far the best musical play the season has produced, and it is certainly one of the best within my entire play-going experience ".

He particularly praised William Hansen's performance as Mr. Lundie, declaring that he " is so irresistably able to persuade you that if there isn't a villiage named Brigadoon, there ought to be ".

He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for The Day Before Spring the previous year was better than theirs for Brigadoon, explaining that, " If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen ".

* October 15 – A TV version of the musical Brigadoon is telecast on ABC as a special, using an updated script and story line and re-introducing some of the songs cut from the 1954 movie.

An archetype is the Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon.

Brigadoon is a cultural Scottish Festival that occurs one day annually in April at Bundanoon every year.

The " acting is really bad and the whole thing is so much fun you want to run to your local community theater group and have them put it on next, instead of Brigadoon.

Bundanoon is known for its annual Garden Ramble, and for its Brigadoon Festival, which attracts tourists from around the world.

Brigadoon is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

** ABC-TV telecasts a highly acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon, starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes.

and Carousel, was hired as choreographer, and her work for Brigadoon incorporated elements of traditional Scottish folk dance ; her dances for the musical included a traditional sword dance, a chase scene, and a funeral dance.

Robert Coleman of the New York Daily Mirror said, " It took courage to produce Brigadoon, an unconventional musical show of marked originality ... still manages to pack a tartan full of popular appeal ".

He also opined that famed Russian choreographer George Balanchine should watch Brigadoon to learn how a musical should be choreographed.

As an example from the American musical, several long speeches in Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon are delivered over an accompaniment of evocative music.

The song " Almost Like Being in Love ", used to mark Bernie's transition from sad sack to winner, was written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner for the stage musical Brigadoon.

Lerner and Loewe were the team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, known primarily for the music and lyrics of some of Broadway's most successful musical shows, including My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon.

Teaming up with Brent Maher and Steve Gibson in Nashville, Tennessee, Johnson created a two-song demo consisting of " Bluer Than Blue " and " Almost Like Being in Love " ( the latter song from the Broadway musical Brigadoon ).

More recent studio albums have tended to be note-complete recreations of the original orchestrations, often with well known singers ( not infrequently from the world of opera rather than musical theatre ) taking the leads: such as EMI's recordings of Brigadoon and Show Boat.

As Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer, Gene Kelly chose Charisse to partner him in the celebrated " Broadway Melody " ballet finale from Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and she co-starred with Kelly in 1954's Scottish-themed musical film Brigadoon.

He can also be seen in the " Chop Suey " number in the musical film Flower Drum Song and the funeral dance in the MGM musical film Brigadoon.

He has also been musical director, conductor, and keyboard instrumentalist with the touring stage shows of Cats, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz, Little Shop of Horrors, Nunsense, Brigadoon, The Phantom of the Opera, Anything Goes, and other Broadway stage shows.

Even theatre and movie companies borrowed from his work: the plot of the musical Brigadoon ( 1954 ) was adapted from Gerstäcker's short story Germelshausen.

On August 20, 1990, the administrator of what was then the most popular TinyMUD, Islandia, took down that mud and put TinyMUD Classic up in its place for the day, calling it " Brigadoon Day ", a reference to the musical Brigadoon, about a mythical village in Scotland that only appears for one day every 100 years.

In 1962, she starred in a short revival of the musical Brigadoon at the New York City Opera and received a Tony nomination, the first performer to be nominated for a revival performance.

* Brigadoon ( 1966 ) ABC-TV ( musical )

Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon.

* Brigadoon ( 1947 ), with Frederick Loewe

Tommy, one of the tourists, falls in love with Fiona, a young woman from Brigadoon.

Mr. Lundie replies, " 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.

A Cinemascope film version of Brigadoon, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was released by MGM in 1954 with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse in leading roles.

Brigadoon opened to very positive reviews with praise for its originality and integration of song and story, though some critics had minor points of criticism.

Past all-school musicals have included Brigadoon, Oklahoma !, Kiss Me Kate, and Canterbury Tales, with the most recent one being Oklahoma !.

RCA Victor entered the cast album field in 1947 with two hits and a miss: Brigadoon, High Button Shoes, and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro.

He also starred with Judy Garland in In the Good Old Summertime ( 1949 ), and teamed with Gene Kelly as the sardonic second lead of Brigadoon ( 1954 ).

Johnson was dropped by MGM in 1954, after appearing in The Last Time I Saw Paris with Elizabeth Taylor and co-starring in Brigadoon.

She returned to familiar territory on TV in 1966 with Brigadoon opposite Robert Goulet, Peter Falk and some of her Broadway cast, it won six Emmy Awards.