and music by Frederick Loewe. Songs from the musical, such as "Almost Like Being in Love
" have become standards.
It tells the story of a mysterious Scottish
village that appears for only one day every hundred years, though to the villagers, the passing of each century seems no longer than one night. The enchantment is viewed by them as a blessing rather than a curse, for it saved the village from destruction.
"Well, most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They're NOT as good as everybody else!"
"If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege."
"There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out."
"You're confused, aren't you, boy? If you believed as much as you thought you believed, you wouldn't be confused."
"It's the hardest thing in the world to give everything. Though it's usually the only way to get everything."
"I told you if you love someone deeply enough anything is possible. Even... miracles?"
"Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?" ~ Tommy Albright