Bountiful High School - Legend Yearbook (Bountiful, UT)

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BRIGADOON e A CHARMING PRODUCTION ABO UT CHARMING PEOPLE . . . Tells in sTory, music, and dance, The Tale of Two Americans, one romanTic, The oTher cynical, who wander by chance mm a ScoTTish Highlands village called Brigadoon, a delighTTul phanTom communiTy ThaT comes To life one day each cenTury. IT is The day of a fair and The clay of a wedding - and The clay ThaT The village comes To life. The color and music of The markeT square and heaTh- er-covered hills creaTe a perTeCT seTTing for The enchanTing sTory. TradiTional ScoTTish dances and songs such as Come To me, Bend To Me, The Real Love of My Life, and The HeaTher on The Hill help To Transform an audience from a realisTic world To a charming world wiTh charming people. The romanTic Yank, Tommy AIbrighT, meeTs a beauTiful lassie, Fiona, wiTh whom he falls in love; and The cynical Yank, JeTTC Douglas, is pursued by Meg Brockie, an impudenT and amorous siren. The wedding scheduled for This day is beTween Jean MacLaren, Fiona's sisTer, and Charlie Dal- rymple. A crisis inTerrust This ScoTTish idyll when Archie BeaTon, a iilTed suiTor of Jean, iars The wedding parTy by declaring ThaT he will leave Brigadoon forever, an ad which would cause The mysTic village To disappear for all Time. The exciTing chase of The suiTor and iTs aTTermaTh provide some of The mosT romanTic scenes of The American sTage. The romanTic American, seeing ThaT This unusual day is drawing To a close, has To make up his mind wheTher To reTurn To America wiTh his friend or To sTay forever in This ScoTTish Shangri-La wiTh his beloved. He reTurns To New York and his fiance, whom he doesn'T love, bUT is haunTed by The memory of Fiona. Finally he goes back To The ScoTch glen and The power of his love awakens The dominie from his cenTury-Iong sleep. The schoolmasTer, Nlr. Lundie, leads him back To Brigadoon and The arms of Fiona, and Tommy sTeps wiThin iTs magic circle.