Styled on “a whimsical musical fantasy” by its creators, Brigadoon is as much a morality play as a light-hearted entertainment…a fine example of the ability of much of the literature of the 1930s and ‘40s to work out life’s thorniest issues through flights of fancy and with a refreshing dose of good-humor, joie de vivre, and old-fashioned ethics. Alan Jay Lerner most likely based his tale of an enchanted village that only appears one day in every 100 years on Germelshausen, an 1860 short story by German novelist Friedrich Gerstäcke in which a wandering artist stumbles upon an idyllic, timeless village, falls in love with a local woman, but must flee at midnight to avoid being trapped forever as the town sinks back into the earth, leaving him separated from his love. Add absolutely wonderful music by Frederick Loewe with such heartwarming songs as “I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean”, “Waitin’ For My Dearie”, “Come To Me, Bend To Me”, “The Heather On The Hill”, “There But For You Go I” and “Almost Like Being In Love”, and the results were and are, well, magical.