This Day in the Arts — March 13 in Broadway Musicals History
Today, not only am I celebrating the anniversary of the opening of a delightfully whimsical Broadway musical, I’m also (stealthily) celebrating the birthday of a writer friend. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who went on to write such classics of the Broadway stage as Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot, brought a tiny Scottish village to life for 581 performances (not just one every one hundred years) beginning on March 13, 1947 when Brigadoon opened at the Zeigfeld Theatre on Broadway.