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From that meeting sprang a partnership that enriched the American musical theater with Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), Camelot (1960) and the show many credit as the genre's best, My Fair Lady (1956). Those lush romantic period pieces became big-budget Hollywood movies, usually with scripts by Lerner, and the two created another nostalgic costume epic, Gigi (1958), directly for the screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face...
...people gathered at Broadway's Shubert Theater for an 80-minute service of anecdotes, reminiscences and, above all, songs. John Cullum reprised his title number from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, stars of a 1980 Broadway revival of Brigadoon, performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif...
...sleepy farm town of Beaumont is about as hip as Brigadoon. Stoked by the hellfire-and-tarnation sermons of the starchy Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), the locals have outlawed dancing. Enter Ren (Kevin Bacon), a city boy with radical ideas about popular music: he likes it. Will Ren win over the Rev.'s wil lowy daughter (Lori Singer)? Will Ren and his pal Willard (Christopher Penn) beat up the town's five toughest punks in a roadside brawl? Will he be able to put the show on right here? You get plenty of time for your three...
...Sinclair) is what one used to think of as a typical teen-age boy back in the days when adolescence was a goofy phase that adults could afford to indulge instead of a time bomb that needs to be defused. Gregory's Girl seems to exist in some Brigadoon of the mind, where psychologists and sociologists are unnecessary and probably unheard of. Indeed, the setting is a far-off corner of Scotland, in a government-sponsored "new town," which supports a livelier life in its interstices than its bland surface promises...
...country on Saturday night, it has acquired a devoted band of a million or so fans. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun is one. Says he, urging a dose of Home Companion for the power brokers: "Washington, I suspect, could use a good bit of Lake Wobegon." Like Brigadoon or Camelot-Lake Wobegon has become a symbolic landmark, existing only on the map of the imagination. "Not everything that is real is on paper," says Keillor. "And if everything that is on paper were real, this would be a sorry world to live...