Opera Index presents ‘Brigadoon’ at The Paley Center
On Saturday, May 17, Opera Index presented the 1966 rare televised color production of “Brigadoon” at The Paley Center in New York. “Brigadoon” won five Emmy’s and was part of a series of Broadway shows sponsored by the Armstrong Circle Theatre. The program was repeated in 1968. The director was Fielder Cook and the conductor was Irwin Kostel.
This special showing of “Brigadoon” had a large group of followers including Opera Index President Murray Rosenthal, and Vice Presidents Philip Hagemann and Brooklynite Janet Stovin, among others.
“Brigadoon” featured Robert Goulet, Sally Ann Howes, Peter Falk, Marlyn Mason, Edward Villella, Finlay Currie and Linda Howe. Composer Frederick Loewe worked with American librettist Alan Jay Lerner to collaborate on tunes such as “The Heather on the Hill,” “Almost Like Being in Love” and “There But For You Go I.”