Brigadoon, anyone? Need tune names, please

[ohiopiper]

Thanks. I'm assuming he doesn't have the score since he was asking me if I knew what the tunes were. He did mention the Sword Dance, and I assume he has no idea it's different. I didn't, having never seen Brigadoon.

They are doing the play, not the movie remake. Doing research led me to the fact that it was indeed first a musical/play and then a movie. Wife says she has a copy of the movie in a box somewhere, I may have to watch it to get a feel for what's expected. Director is supposed to call me sometime this week.

[OC Richard]

I wouldn't watch the movie in preparation for the play, because as I've said they made a lot of changes in the movie.

The clips I posted show the music in the play performed correctly, filmed from performances of the play itself.

How can a guy put on a play without the score? What are the singers going to sing? Are the singers just going to watch the movie and make up their vocal parts? I don't think so. Likewise the pipe music is in the score, and it's ridiculous to ask a piper to just watch the movie (which has different music in many places!) and make up his parts.

As I said only Lord Lovat's Lament is a traditional piece (though arranged in a specific way), the rest of the music is composed by Lerner & Lowe, and it's all available in sheet music form.

Now, I have seen one production of Brigadoon where the director decided to throw out the play's original "sword dance" music and use the real traditional Scottish Sword Dance, having the piper play Ghillie Callum, just like is done nowadays in Highland Dancing. Also the director threw out the play's original wedding dance music and hired a real Scottish fiddler to play Scottish Country Dance music for that scene. The director hired a top Scottish dance instructor (certified by both the RSCDS and the Highland Dance Board) to teach real traditional Scottish dance to the cast.

But all the other productions I've seen over the years use the Broadway style choreography for both the sword dance and the wedding dance.