With Brigadoon, a mythical vision of Scotland traveled from the popular Lerner and Loewe Broadway production to Hollywood, where Vincente Minnelli filmed it in Technicolor, and back to Scotland, where the play is performed by professional and amateur alike, its tunes and lyrics now well incorporated into the cultural repertoire. The story finds two Americans, a wistful Gene Kelly and his pragmatic friend, Van Johnson, wandering through the Scottish hills when they happen upon the specter of Brigadoon, a village lost in time and space save for one day out of every century when it comes to life as we know it. And life as we know it, Barry Jones explains to the American friends, was exactly what the 18th-century minister had in mind when, by way of protecting his fold from the evils of the outside world after his death, he prayed to God to charm Brigadoon right off the face of the earth. In Brigadoon lives Cyd Charisse, a bonnie lass with a dream of her own, one which Gene Kelly happens to fit to a tee. When he bolts from his reality (comically burlesqued in a New York nightclub scene) to hers, Brigadoon becomes a testament to the power of fantasy, nicely borne out by the fate of Alan Jay Lerner's original story. (J.B.)