Ana Gasteyer Joins Broadway’s ‘Schmigadoon!’ As Production Rounds Out Cast
#Casting #News #AnaGasteyer #Broadway #Schmigadoon

https://deadline.com/2026/02/schmigadoon-ana-gasteyer-broadway-cast-1236715731/

Alex Brightman & Sara Chase To Star In Broadway’s ‘Schmigadoon!’
#News #AlexBrightman #Broadway #SaraChase #Schmigadoon

https://deadline.com/2025/10/alex-brightman-sara-chase-schmigadoon-broadway-1236586937/

✨ "Schmigadoon!" arriva a Broadway nella primavera del 2026.

🎭 Dopo un debutto al Kennedy Center, il musical, omaggio ai classici di Broadway, sarà in scena al Nederlander Theatre dal 4 aprile al 6 settembre 2026.
Produttori Lorne Michaels e No Guarantees Productions.

#Schmigadoon #Broadway #Musical

Following a successful run in DC, the stage musical adaptation of Apple TV's "Schmigadoon!" will get a limited Broadway run at the Nederlander Theatre, with previews starting April 4, 2026, and an opening of April 20, running through September 6.

#Schmigadoon #Broadway #Entertainment #PerformingArts #Stage #Musical #Music

‘Schmigadoon!’ Musical Heads To Broadway This Spring For Limited Engagement
#News #Broadway #LorneMichaels #Schmigadoon #Schmigadoon

https://deadline.com/2025/09/schmigadoon-broadway-1236566003/

Erin Watches (and you should watch!) Schmigadoon

Anyone else who got Apple TV for Murderbot reasons, you’ve gotta catch Schmigadoon! before you go. (…It’s the only non-MB thing I’ve watched so far and thought “yes, this is such a treat, I need to tell people about it.”)

The premise is “what if a young professional couple got isekai’d into a musical?” Melissa and Josh are both doctors, their romance is struggling, they go on a couples-retreat hike in the woods…and they walk into a bright colorful town where everyone keeps singing at them.

(The title is a riff on Brigadoon, which is also about normal modern people stumbling into a fantastical small town, but the characters and songs pull from all over. Most of the s1 references I recognized were from The Sound of Music. Gonna indulge in this whole Youtube playlist of Musical Fans breaking down the references.)

At first, our heroes assume it’s some kind of immersive performance! Then they can’t get out of the town. And there’s a leprechaun. And the only way to leave is to achieve True Love, while helping the townsfolk with their own problems along the way. Through song, of course.

The cast is star-studded. (They got Kristen Chenowith! and Jane Krakowski! and Alan Cumming!) The music is amazing — it’s all based on songs from classic musicals, not in a straightforward “we took the original song and gave it new parody lyrics” way, but still in a “hang on, this is a riff on Do Re Mi, isn’t it” way. The writing has a lot of fun with the tropes and the cheesiness of the source material, but the kind where you can tell they have a lot of genuine love and affection for it.

It’s barely a spoiler to say that, yeah, our heroes find True Love by the end of season 1. But after leaving Schmigadoon, they start missing it, and go back to the woods to see if they can find it again…and season 2 has them stumbling into the darker, grittier spectacle of Schmicago.

Now here I got a lot more of the references. (Chicago, obviously — then there’s some Sweeney Todd, some Godspell, some Annie, just a touch of Jesus Christ Superstar, and a delightful sprinkle of Rocky Horror.)

The show got canceled after S2. At least the writers were thoughtful enough to leave us on a hopeful/closure ending instead of a cliffhanger! But it’s a little bit tragic that we’ll never get to see Josh and Mel fumble their way through their custom mashup of Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, Wicked, Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, and Fun Home.

Did you like the “normal cynical people dealing with a fantastical world of colorful joy” aspect of The Good Place? Were you into the “affectionate parody where we put our whole hearts into writing original music” vibe of Galavant? (Another musical-comedy that was canceled much too soon.) Are you a fan of any/all of the musicals I’ve name-checked so far? Then you should go check out Schmigadoon.

(There’s a nonzero chance that, after I get through all the reference-explaining videos, I’ll go back and watch the whole thing again.)

#musicals #Schmigadoon

It is SUCH a shame that #Schmigadoon was cancelled after two seasons. I hadn’t really even realised that the whole show existed until yesterday, and now I’m sad there won’t be more of it.

The Sweeney Todd pastiche in season 2 was one of my absolute favourites, it was wickedly brilliant.