‘Brigadoon’ Review: Pasadena Playhouse’s Enrapturing Revival Is Worth What Seemed Like a Hundred-Year Wait

“…enter “Brigadoon’s” saviors in the present moment: script adapter Alexandra Silber, who sought and got permission from the Lerner-Loewe estate to substantially freshen up the book, and director-choreographer Katie Spelman, who gives a hell of a good name to theatrical multi-hyphenates….the choreography, created by Spelman (with a nod in the credits to the inspiration of ’40s originator Agnes DeMille), includes two full-on mini-ballets, both involving minor characters who get a major, extended dance moment. Both of these non-sung time-outs are astonishingly good….if some version of this should make it to Broadway —  and it ought to — you’d be paying several times as much, in an auditorium at least a couple of times as large, to see what’s currently being realized as a perfectly intimate epic on the outskirts of L.A.”

• Chris William, Variety