Brigadoon

Shedd Theatricals 2026
BRIGADOON
July 10, 11, 17 & 18 - 7:30 pm
July 12 & 19 - 3:00 pm
The Shedd Institute, Eugene OR
Styled on “a whimsical musical fantasy” by its creators, Brigadoon is as much a morality play as a light-hearted entertainment…a fine example of the ability of much of the literature of the 1930s and ‘40s to work out life’s thorniest issues through flights of fancy and with a refreshing dose of good-humor, joie de vivre, and old-fashioned ethics. Alan Jay Lerner most likely based his tale of an enchanted village that only appears one day in every 100 years on Germelshausen, an 1860 short story by German novelist Friedrich Gerstäcke in which a wandering artist stumbles upon an idyllic, timeless village, falls in love with a local woman, but must flee at midnight to avoid being trapped forever as the town sinks back into the earth, leaving him separated from his love. Add absolutely wonderful music by Frederick Loewe with such heartwarming songs as “I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean”, “Waitin’ For My Dearie”, “Come To Me, Bend To Me”, “The Heather On The Hill”, “There But For You Go I” and “Almost Like Being In Love”, and the results were and are, well, magical.
Join us for Dinners At Six before evening performances and after matinées!
Thank you to our sponsors, The Eye Center, Obie Companies, McKenzie River Broadcasting, Big Foot Beverages, Residence Inn by Mariott, The Eugene Hotel, and Oregon iLasik for this production.