Brigadoon
musical by Lerner and Loewe
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Brigadoon is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, first performed in 1947. The musical's title has since become a term for an idyllic, timeless, or unreal place.12
The story follows two American hunters who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mythical Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years. One of the hunters falls in love with a local woman and must choose between staying in Brigadoon or returning to his own time. The musical was later adapted into a film in 1954.3
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