Brigadoon (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Original Broadway Cast of Brigadoon

Released on 5/1/47 by Masterworks Broadway
Main artists: Original Broadway Cast of Brigadoon
Genre: Musical Theatre

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Brigadoon was the fourth collaboration between lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, but it was their first success (to be followed by My Fair Lady and Camelot), running 581 performances on Broadway after opening on March 13, 1947. Lerner contrived an original script about two disillusioned postwar New Yorkers who encounter a magical Scottish village that comes to life only one day each century; of course, romance ensues. The show also produced the first original Broadway cast album ever released by RCA Victor Records, initially as a collection of five 78-rpm discs, though subsequently released on LP, cassette, and CD. In any format, however, it retains the limitations of its early genesis; consisting of only ten tracks, it runs a mere 32 and a half minutes. The only major song that's missing, predictably, is the show's raciest one, "The Love of My Life," secondary character Meg Brockie's account of her hopeful promiscuity. Pamela Britton, who played the part, does get to sing her other comic number, "My Mother's Weddin' Day," albeit with a lyrical change that eliminates the song's big punch line, that she had attended that wedding! Of course, the show's major songs -- "Almost Like Being in Love," "Come to Me, Bend to Me," and "The Heather on the Hill" -- are present, sung by a strong-voiced cast led by David Brooks, Marion Bell, and Lee Sullivan. And the score is consistently effective, also including such winning uptempo songs as "Down on MacConnachy Square" and "I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean." The cast album was a reasonable collection for its time and, in fact, turned out to be more complete than the disappointing original soundtrack album that turned up seven years later. But a 1957 studio cast version featuring Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones was a better accounting of the score, and later recordings contained much more of the music, while not being bothered with the censorship issues that bedeviled this first recording.

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Overture / Once in the Highlands / Brigadoon (Remastered 1988)

Delbert Anderson

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Frederick Loewe, Composer - Delbert Anderson, Vocal - Didier C. Deutsch, Producer - Eli Oberstein, Producer - Paul Goodman, Re-Mastering Engineer - Russ Case, Producer - Company, Performer - Alan Jay Lerner, Lyricist