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Brigadoon

The freezing, speeding or reversal of time has been a frequent plot device since the 1500s. Although generally remembered as a romance, the plot of Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe's popular musical comedy revolves around the altering of time --the Scottish village is protected from the 20th century because it exists for only one day each hundred years.


Brigadoon
Scenery design by Oliver Smith for graveyard scene, ca. 1949
© Rosana Sinisi
Billy Rose Theatre Collection