Wordie: Brigadoon: Comments

Comment by Treeseed, 9 months ago

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:15:35 +0000

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

It tells the story of a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, though to the villagers, the passing of each century seems no longer than one night. The enchantment is viewed by them as a blessing rather than a curse, for it saved the village from destruction. According to their covenant with God, no one from Brigadoon may ever leave, or the enchantment will be broken and the site and all its inhabitants will disappear into the mist forever. Two American tourists, lost in the Highlands, stumble upon the village just as a wedding is about to be celebrated, and their arrival has serious implications for the village's inhabitants.

Lerner's book was based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstäcker about the mythical village of Germelshausen that fell under an evil magic curse.
_Wikipedia

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:08 +0000

Lol

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:16:06 +0000

Hahaha!

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:18:46 +0000

This word may only be listed once every twenty years.

Comment by halcyonwhimsy, about 1 year ago

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:29:50 +0000

an idyllic place that is either out of touch with reality or only appears for brief amounts of time in a greater span of time.

Pretty sure this originates from the Musical Brigadoon which is based on a German story.