Even More Ballet/Broadway News

As far as musical theater news is concerned, this week has been liiiiiiiiit. On Tuesday, we reported that Carousel is coming back to Broadway next year in a production featuring several New York City Ballet favorites. Now there’s word that two more of our ballet/Broadway baes are at the helm of a new City Center Encores! production of the classic Brigadoon.

Christopher Wheeldon
will direct and choreograph this concert staging of Lerner & Loewe’s romantic fantasy, opening November 15 and running just 5 days in total. So snag those tickets now!

Still not convinced? The swoon-worthy Robert Fairchild will play Harry Beaton, a handsome rebel living in the magical Scottish town called Brigadoon. We can’t wait to have our very own modern-day Gene Kelly doing his triple-threat thing again.

To tide you over until November, here’s Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse in the 1954 movie version of Brigadoon. Because Cyd Charisse.