An electricity of excitement circuited through young actors and actresses at the Neptune Studio Theatre yesterday during rehearsals for Brigadoon.

“I show them the poster, they scream. I tell them we’re four days away from opening, they scream,” director Samantha Wilson said during a media call for the play production.

Brigadoon is set in 1746 and tells the tale of a mysterious village in the Scottish Highlands that appears out of the mist for only one day every hundred years.

The 23 Nova Scotia youth featured in the production went through a strenuous audition process to grace the Neptune stage. The 13 to 18 year-olds endured two auditions and a two-week boot camp to be called Neptune’s Young Performance Company.

Wilson said you have to be a director as well as a teacher when directing a youth company.

“I love seeing the students rise to the challenge. It’s a big undertaking putting on a full scale musical,” said Wilson, who has directed seven plays at Neptune.

Devin Hindle of Lower Sackville has been acting since he was 10. He has been involved with Neptune for three years, but this is his first lead role as he plays the role of Tommy Albright, a tourist who travels into a magical land. He said the production process becomes most exciting when the chaos of the final rehearsal days loom over the cast.

“Tech weekend is my favorite of all because it’s nothing but this,” the 17-year-old said, referring to full rehearsals with the technical crew. “It’s so busy and so hectic, but we're all having fun and we all get really close at this time.”

Wilson said young people as well as adults would enjoy Brigadoon because it has something for everyone.

“There’s a wedding, and there’s a fight, a chase, love, romance … it’s got it all.”

During yesterday’s media call, Thomas Hiseler, who plays Andrew MacLaren, was awarded the David Renton Scholarship, a $575 reward for displaying acting excellence, demonstrating financial need and embodying the “Neptune company spirit.”