comedic musical on “Brigadoon” , but he hadn’t actually seen the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner play, nor the 1954 film, when doing so. His love of musicals in general inspired the series. And as he was developing his lead characters and their relationships, he drew on musicals from “The Sound of Music” to “The King and I.”
Soon enough their relationship is tested, not only by the weird circumstance they are in, but also by attractive townspeople. This enhances the drama from the original conceit of “Brigadoon,” which was that two friends stumbled into the town together and got pulled into relationships. The town was a small one, which means Paul limited the real-life musicals from which he drew. But its period elements, which may seem quaint from a distance, are challenged by two people stepping out of modern society and into their world.
Paul wrote original songs for the series, mostly building them out of character first. , the school marm, and her students singing and tap dancing on desks because the visual was striking to him.) But as the series was cast and staffed up, numbers developed lives of their own. Jane Krakowski being cast as the Countess, for example, turned the number for that character into more of a “sophisticated Cole Porter song,” Paul says, simply because of her style and range.
But who is chagrined by this?
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