Styled “a whimsical musical fantasy” by its creators, Brigadoon is, like The Wizard of Oz and most of the popular literature of the 1930s and ‘40s, as much a morality play as a light-hearted entertainment… a fine example of the era’s ability 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 based his tale—of an enchanted village that only appears one day in every 100 years—on Germelshausen, an 1861 German short story. But the mid-1940s were not exactly the most strategic of times to launch a Broadway musical set in Germany, so he changed the locale to the Scottish Highlands. Add absolutely wonderful music by Frederick Loewe and the results were and are, well, magical.