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Suspending Disbelief
Brigadoon is one of those plays that you couldn't make up. Oh hang on. Well anyway, seeing as it was made up, it is impossible to imagine the investors' meeting when the plot was pitched. If any musical requires suspension of disbelief, it has to be this one, and even then, suspension is impossible. Anyway, I quite like to believe. The reason "Brigadoon" has passed into loving legend has to be the score which is haunting, sombre, melancholy, wistful, yearning. As this production shows, Lerner and Loewe wrote songs which were such box office gold that anything they wrote made the plot irrelevant. Beneath even the merriest and most furious of the Highland strains is a sadness which resonates with audiences in a way that is understood only in hindsight, or therapy, whichever comes last.
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