What Show is David Eggers Talking About?

Somewhere I once read a synopsis of John Guare's book revisions for that BRIGADOON and it sounded so much better than the original.

Would be interesting to compare the various versions from throughout the years to see which works the best:

• the original
• the film script
• the Brian Hill revision seen in Chicago and at Shaw Fest
• the trimmed City Center gala version of the original
• recent Regents Park production
• upcoming Alexandra Silber revision at Pasadena

(Maybe there have been others, too??)

I saw a production in Pittsburgh with the original script a few years ago. It mostly lays there like a dead fish, and then one HILARIOUS scene which was probably not intended for comedy in the original draft was wisely played as a joke instead.

When the boys have returned to the present, they go to a nightclub, and keep having musical flashbacks to the events in Brigadoon. It plays like a Mel Brooks scene if you do it "wrong," and if the rest of the show had been that whimsical, it would have been a much more enjoyable experience, despite the wonderful voices of the cast.

darquegk said: "Also, it took me a minute to realize David Eggers was not Robert Eggers, and I was trying to conceive of a Robert Eggers Brigadoon..."

💯!!! For a minute, all I could picture was:

"From the Director of The VVitch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu...comes Brigadoon."