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re: Brigadoon song The Love of My Life -- Question

Posted by:	BroadwayTonyJ 11:43 am EDT 08/14/14
In reply to:	re: Brigadoon song The Love of My Life -- Question - Michael_Portantiere 10:50 am EDT 08/14/14

The entire song is suggestive but very funny and witty. According to the liner notes of the '47 OBC recording, censors forbade RCA Victor from recording it and even insisted they change the final risque lyric in My Mother's Wedding Day. The song was not included in either the MGM film or the Goulet TV version. The "poet" verse suggests that the guy may have been gay or just a nice, sensitive lad who could not respond to Meg's voracious sexual appetite. The "soldier" verse implies sexual fulfillment but the guy preferred not to stay the night. Knowing the prudish mentality of certain Chicago theaters, I can see why (although I think it's stupid) they cut the former but retain the latter. Have the productions in New York that you have seen ever dropped the "poet" verse?

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