----~~-~------~-~- verge eaitor Brigadoon rolls out of the mist after 30 years andering through a Scottish wood, two 20th century Americans happen upon a tiny 17th century Utopia. It's Brigadoon, a tiny village that appears on no maps. It's a virtu al paradise that fell asleep about 300 years ago and since has awakened for a single day every I 00 years. Out of this contrived legend comes the musrcal "Brigadoon," written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The Broadway musical opened Thursday on the Mainstage of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. On the 50th anniversary of the original Broadway photo by lkuya Kurata appearance, "Brigadoon" was resurrected from the University Theatre archives after resting for 30 years. Lacey Hawley. a semor music education major {center) sings as Fiona, a young Scottish girl search Through a collaborative faculty effort it was decid ing for the love of her life in the Broadway musical "Brigadoon· now playing on the Mainstage in the ed that "Brigadoon" return to the university replac Doudna Fine Arts Center. ing "A Christmas Carol;' which has become a staple department wanted to collaborate on a production in the theater repertoire for the last four years, said with the music department, a situation that really had Jean Wolski, director of "Brigadoon." not occurred for several years, Wolski said. "A Christmas Carol" was only supposed to run for The actors and actresses for "Brigadoon" have two years, but it kind of just kept cropping back up, been rehearsing for weeks, but often those Wolski said. rehearsals have lacked the entire ensemble. "We wanted to find something different with new Wolski said schedules were "crazy" and Sunday experiences for our actors and something different night was the first time the entire cast and crew had for the audience, but have it still be family oriented;' rehearsed together. Wolski said."We decided on 'Brigadoon' not realizing "We tried to work as an ensemble cast, because it had been SO years people have to work so closely together," Wolski since the original was said. performed on Broad Scheduling proved to be a bit more difficult than way in 1947," Wolski anticipated with a mixture c;>f majors from theater to said. And it just so music to business to speech communications, she happens that the last said. "People have been really good (about making it time it was per to rehearsals)," she said. formed at Eastern As well as having different majors the various was in 1967, she said. Also, the theater ______seeP laid page 3
Jason Arnold. Nathan Smith. Jeff Todd and Lacey Hawley are decked in plaid for "Brigal'loon" rehearsal Tuesday night.