Friday, February 5, 2010
The Record Volume 40, Issue 18
The Official Student Publication of the Saint Louis Priory School since 1960
Brigadoon Preview With less than a week until opening night, senior Ben Constantino takes us through a brief explanation of Priory’s 2010 Winter Play...
Ben Constantino, ’10 Entertainment Writer
The other day, as I was airily ambling through the Junior School, I was startled by a squeaking noise which was emitting from around my mid-thigh region. After my initial fright, I realized that I was being confronted by a seventh grader, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, like a newborn sheep, who asked me, “HEY MISTER! Why do you look so happy? What is this joy that is etched upon your brow? Why does an aura of such eagerness and reckless enthusiasm surround you?” “Well, little one,” I responded, setting his six-ounce body upon my knee, “I am excited, nay, ecstatic! for the coming of our school’s musical, Brigadoon!” He bowed his head in shamed reverence. “If you please, sir,” he blubbered, “What is a musical? For that matter, what is ‘Brigadoon’?” “It’s funny you should ask those questions in such conjunction,” I answered him. “It just so happens that Saint Louis Priory’s ‘Brigadoon’ is the definition of a musical in its most perfect form. Brigadoon combines the elements of musical theater with drama, humor, and romance, in a way which most would attribute to William Shakespeare, or, for your generation, Tim Allen. Our production, in particular,
features the talents of many of this age’s greats, including Charlie Peterson as the misty-eyed swooner Tommy Albright, Hannah Slabaugh as the golden-voiced songbird Fiona MacLaren, and Zach Weiss as the enchantingly wrinkly Mr. Lundie. In this play, love is like a pit, in that it is helplessly fallen into by Fiona and Tommy as the show begins. They frolic and flirt in the mysterious and magical town of Brigadoon, which is positively crawling with townsfolk who would like to do nothing more than sing at the top of their lungs about lasses, looms, and love. Along the way, uproarious humor is thrown about by myself, playing Jeff Douglas! The tale of this Scottish fairytale town, happened upon by two modern Americans, positively sparkles with magic and excitement. A joy that you have yet to know awaits ye if ye attend,” I finished with a roguish wink. Upon hearing about the Junior Zach Weiss motivates the student body to come performance, the child ripped off his see the play by wearing women’s clothes. shirt, which he immediately fashioned into a banner. Taking a pen, promptly began to scurry through the he boldly emblazoned the ex-Polo with halls, alerting his friends. But if you the legend, COME YE ALL TO weren’t there, let me be the first to tell B R I G A D O O N , F E B R U A R Y 1 1th you: Come see Brigadoon! It’s going to THROUGH FEBRUARY 14th IN THE be just fantastic, you’ll have yourself an KEVIN KLINE THEATER! TICKETS ON excellent evening if you attend. See you SALE NOW! there! He held it aloft, screaming, “I shall be a witness to its glory!” and