Brigadoon was the debut Broadway hit from Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music), who would later advance to the acme of success with My Fair Lady. Yet Brigadoon was itself a notable triumph, a tune-stuffed delight with exquisite extended choreography from Agnes de Mille and it finds its new home now in the optimum setting of the sylvan lushness of an alfresco amphitheatre in Regent’s Park.
Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright and Danielle Fiamanya as Fiona MacLaren in the show (Photo: Mark Senior)
Playwright Rona Munro has adapted Lerner’s original book and her firm but gentle tweaks work splendidly well. Two American hunters lost in the Scottish Highlands have now morphed into two weary American WW2 pilots, Tommy (Louis Gaunt) and Jeff (Cavan Clarke), bewildered and trying to find their way back to base.
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Spectators are advised not to dwell overmuch on the unlikely existential logistics of this set-up, but instead to relish the feast of song and dance. McOnie, a choreographer by trade, offers a sumptuous spectacle of movement, including a ceremonial sword dance at the wedding. Memorable songs land thick and fast, including “Almost Like Being in Love” and “Come to Me, Bend to Me”.
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