brigadoon

     

Brigaoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

Trivia about brigadoon

  • Lerner & Loewe's Scotstravaganza:"A Goon Bird"
  • "I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean" is one of many lively songs in this Lerner & Loewe musical
  • "Almost Like Being In Love","I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean"
  • Harry Beaton's unrequited love for Jean McLaren threatens to make this title village vanish forever
  • Lerner & Loewe's first hit musical, it was inspired in part by the works of Scotsman James Barrie
  • This 1947 musical is set in the highlands of Scotland
  • In a musical, MacConnachy Square is in the heart of this enchanted Scottish village
  • Gene Kelly & Van Johnson discover a magical Scottish village in this film
  • The folks in this musical village are awake for 24 hours, once every 100 years
  • 2 Americans are in a misty Scottish glen when they encounter a village that comes alive one day every century
  • Agnes de Mille won in 1947 for choreographing this musical & maybe in 100 years she'll win again for it
  • The ballet "The Bitter Weird" is based on the dances Agnes De Mille created for this musical about a Scottish town
  • A lovely lass named Fiona MacLaren is the heroine of this Lerner & Loewe show
  • "Almost Like Being in Love", from this musical, says, "I could swim Loch Lomond and be home in half an hour"
  • Alan Jay Lerner began writing this musical's book by studying the history & customs of 18th c. Highland Scots