By Marlena De Lacroix In Part 1 of this column, I used that great 1947 Broadway musical in which a mythical ancient town full of joy and real human goodness reappears and vanishes once a decade as a metaphor for the brief return of Lorraine Broderick as headwriter of All My Children. Ms. Broderick's self-chosen short-lived return represented … [Read more...]
All My Children: Daytime’s Brigadoon, But What Happens Next? Part 2
Filed Under: All My Children, MARLENA Tagged With: Agnes Nixon, All My Children, Darnell Williams, David Canary, David Kreizman, Debbi Morgan, Donna Swajeski, General Hospital, Julia Barr, Julie Carruthers, Lorraine Broderick, Marlena De Lacroix, Michael E. Knight, soap opera, Susan Lucci, Vincent Irizarry, Wendy Riche
All My Children: Daytime’s Brigadoon (But What Happens Next?) Part 1
By Marlena De Lacroix When I was a young girl my mother took me to City Center in Manhattan to see a revival of the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon. In it, two American men on a trip to Scotland stumble upon a strange town, the Brigadoon of the title, from a Can Agnes Nixon, who brought us this revival of Pine Valley as … [Read more...]
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