Brigadoon - Regent’s Park OAT (rumour)

Shame it's not Schmigadoon, that would be far more exciting.

I contacted their box office this week to ask about something and I mentioned Shucked, the assistant would neither confirm or deny it was coming next year. In fact, I got the impression he had never even heard of it.

Box Office staff are largely the last people to be told anything, and even if they did know they were hardly going to say 'yes it's happening' before the season announcement...

He's not really a director though - incredible choreographer but he's yet to direct anything...good?

And yet won best director at the UK theatre awards this week

Surely he would have won best choreographer in that case? The Artist was dance heavy but not pure dance.

One of the first musicals I ever saw on tv as a child. It's magical and the music is gorgeous with some hilarious comedy numbers. Would love to see a really good revival. Was hoping for a Lincoln Center Bartlett Sher revival.

It doesn’t get revived much does it? What’s wrong with it?

Forget Brigadoon - let's have Local Hero instead.

The story is an old fashioned fairytale and so could feel dated but actually if you work with the quirky charm that comes with fantasy stories then it works just fine.

You can't change the fundamentals of the village that only appears once a century. And the original modern scenes work best with the time of creation as that is where the music sits.

So you can tweak the dialogue. But it doesn't, to my mind, need a radical overhaul.

It hardly flopped in Edinburgh or Chichester.   Sold very well for both runs and received positive reviews.

I agree, Local Hero did great business at Chichester. It's a great little show which I would love to come back. I do think on the other hand that it appeals to a very specific age group of audience and certainly wouldn't sell on a large scale. But, can Brigadoon sell well these days? I wouldn't say it's a household name with general audience members younger than 75 compared to the other hard hitters from it's era.