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Warning: Contains Spoilers for Schmigadoon! season 2The Schmigadoon! season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger of sorts with Josh and Melissa finally able to leave Schmigadoon, and the Schmigadoon! season 2 premiere answers whether they made it out or not. Schmigadoon! season 1 followed Josh and Melissa, a couple who were growing apart and trying to save their failing relationship when they stumbled upon a magical musical town that they couldn’t escape until they found true love. Through multiple musical numbers and exploration of lives without each other, Josh and Melissa found that they were each other’s true love in the Schmigadoon!, but it didn’t mean they had to leave the town of Schmigadoon.

Schmigadoon! was renewed for a season 2 by Apple TV+ following season 1's July 2021 release, though with a twist. All of the main cast members, except for Fred Armisen, who played Reverend Layton, will return in Schmigadoon!

Apple TV+ announced that “Schmigadoon!” has been renewed for a second season. Additionally, Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page have joined the cast.

The series stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a couple named Melissa Gimble and Josh Skinner, two doctors from New york who go on a backpacking trip when their relationship hits a rough patch and find themselves lost in the town of Schmigadoon — where life is a 1940s-50s musical with songs and characters inspired by “Oklahoma!” and “The Music Man,” among others. They can only escape after they find true love, whether that’s with each other or someone else.

After they do find true love, Season 2 finds Josh and Melissa in Schmicago, the world of 60’s and 70’s musicals.

Along with Strong and Key, the cast of “Schmigadoon!” returning cast members include Ariana DeBose as school teacher Emma Tate, Dove Cameron as waitress Betsy McDonough,...

Jessica Chastain and Ariana DeBose just took home Oscars for their big-screen turns in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “West Side Story,” respectively, but they might want to keep their trophy cases open to add some hardware for their small-screen work. Both women could check off the E in their Egot in six months as Chastain, who won the Best Actress Oscar, is in Emmy contention for her HBO limited series “Scenes from a Marriage” and Best Supporting Actress champ DeBose could be shortlisted for Apple TV+’s “Schmigadoon!”

A remake of Ingmar Bergman‘s “Scenes from a Marriage,” HBO’s five-part series didn’t make the biggest splash when it aired in the fall (especially with the third season of “Succession” succeeding its time slot), but it earned great reviews, as did Chastain and Oscar Isaac for their performances as an unhappy couple in a crumbling marriage. Chastain,...

After a decade of working hard on Broadway, Ariana DeBose is enjoying her time in the limelight. Tonight, she hosts “Saturday Night Live,” a major accomplishment for a newly famous actor.

For playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of “West Side Story,” the 30-year-old took home the Golden Globe for supporting actress on Sunday. She is also nominated for a Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild Award, and looks to have a good shot at this year’s Oscars.

“It’s wild! Because I have been working [for a long time]. This experience makes me feel as if I’ve been hiding away on Broadway,” DeBose told Variety after receiving her SAG nomination on Wednesday. “But I haven’t been hiding! I was just working, doing my thing.”

“Doing her thing” has included her 2011 Broadway debut as Nautica in “Bring it On: The Musical” and performing as the Bullet in the original ensemble of “Hamilton,...

Apple TV+’s “Schmigadoon!” broke onto the scene in July and instantly endeared itself to audiences. The musical-comedy stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a New York couple going through relationship pains, so they trek through the woods and wind up in the magical town of Schmigadoon where everyone sings and dances. The six-episode series, created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, takes its inspiration from the classic Broadway musical “Brigadoon.” In all, 13 cast members are eligible for the ensemble prize at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards (see below).

SEECecily Strong shines in ‘Schmigadoon!’: From ‘SNL’ to SAG Awards?

Key plays Josh Skinner, a successful surgeon, while Strong takes on the role of Melissa Gimble, a caring Obgyn. While Key is a former SAG Award nominee for being a part of the “Key and Peele” ensemble, this would mark Strong’s first-ever bid with the actors guild.

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Dr. Josh Skinner has a song in his heart — and he’s finally ready to sing it from the rooftops (or in this case, Schmigadoon!‘s town square).

In the sixth and final episode of the Apple TV+ comedy’s freshman run, Keegan-Michael Key‘s character realizes that he can’t cross that bridge back into reality with schoolmarm Emma Tate because he’s still very much in love with Melissa. And after spending the previous five episodes resisting every opportunity to burst into song, the musically averse Josh lets down his guard and tells Melissa exactly how he feels — in song.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the finale of “Schmigadoon!”

The finale of “Schmigadoon!” on Apple TV+ brought a whole lot of big revelations with it, ranging from characters’ secret political beliefs to their pyrotechnic tendencies. But arguably the biggest reveal came in the form of a secret child — well, two actually. Because as it turns out, Emma Tate (Ariana DeBose) wasn’t the only one hiding the fact that she was a mother; Kristin Chenoweth’s Mildred Layton was too.

It was a twist Chenoweth was particularly pleased about, because for her, it rounded out the character and made Mildred more than just an uptight, old-fashioned villain.

“It was so good to have that in the character because when I got first got the part, I told Barry [Sonnenfeld, the series director], ‘I need the Mildred Pierce hairdo, I need the Joker maniacal lips, I need a mole,'” Chenoweth told TheWrap. “I didn’t win the mole.

What is there to say about Schmigadoon! Season 1 Episode 6 that hasn't been lauded and applauded throughout this far too short one-month engagement?

The finale gives us everything the final act of a Golden Age musical would encompass, Plus a totally evolved and empowering ensemble number that conveys through its medium the message of change and growth.

To draw on musical theater touchstones, it was like the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius paid the Rent because they could Hear the People Sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I commented earlier in the series that there seemed to be a hint that Melissa and Josh would affect the town as much as the town would change them.

In the process of mending their relationship, many Schmigadoonians were able to find the courage to step out of the situation they were written into and express their personal desires and ambitions.

And there are such beautiful parallels.

I personally believe every show Ever would benefit from adding Jane Krakowski, and Schmigadoon! Season 1 Episode 5 really proves my point.

I've loved it all from the moment Melissa and Josh stepped foot over the bridge, and my mind is constantly blown by the talent they gathered into this cast.

But when Doc Lopez spun Melissa directly into the bosom of the sparkling Countess Gabriele Von Blerkom, who seemed to appear out of thin air, I keeled over, laughing.

And when her number turned out to be based on Kiss Me, Kate's "Always True To You In My Fashion," one of my favorite all-time musical theatre songs, I pretty much jumped up and cried, "Hooray!"

I love The Countess so much because she actually contests her character's destiny.

In contrast to Danny Bailey, who seems determined to play out his Carousel plotline to its tragic end, The Countess is D-o-n-e with...

To celebrate the release of the new series Schmigadoon!, which is available to stream now on Apple TV+, we sat down with some of the show’s main talents to find out all about this colourful new musical series.

In the series, we follow two doctors, Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan Michael Key), who go on a backpacking trip in an attempt to patch up their failing relationship, only to find themselves still arguing. They get lost and soon discover a magical town called Schmigadoon, which is perpetually trapped in a Golden Age-style musical, and slowly realize that they cannot leave until they find true love.

Inhabiting the town are Doc Jorge Lopez (Camil), teacher Emma Tate (DeBose), and the preacher’s wife Mildred Layton (Chenoweth), all of whom add to the eclectic mix of personalities in this otherworldly town. We spoke to all three about their roles in the show,...

Schmigadoon! manages to sell its audience on a pair of dalliances as fast as Betsy was able to sell Melissa on The Inn’s world-famous corn pudding.

In Episode 4, Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin) and Ariana DeBose (Hamilton) are formally introduced as Doc Lopez and schoolmarm Emma Tate, new love interests for Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key’s bewildered outsiders. In just one song, we’re led to believe that Melissa and Josh may have found their soulmates in this harmonious haven — the very soulmates they need to cross that bridge and return to their former lives.

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There's a lovely symmetry to the structure of Schmigadoon! Season 1 Episode 4, pleasing the sensibilities and enhances the sweet romance blossoming in the central plot development.

It's most obvious in the opening and finale scenes where couples are declaring their love for each other for the first time, kissing, and getting snowed on.

What's positively magical about it all is that between those elegantly drawn moments of burgeoning affection, they managed to fit in a song about the biology of baby-making, a death by Egyptian Hucklebuck (although not on screen), and a whole dance number done on top of desks.

One of the trademarks of Golden Age MGM Musicals was the "movie magic" technology, whether it was camera angle tricks, double-exposure effects, or split-screen "travel."

We get some delightful homages to those here with the dual dance number and the classroom ensemble tap dance.

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When Cecily Strong’s Melissa and Keegan-Michael Key’s Josh first wander into Schmigadoon!, the harmonious haven at the center of Apple TV+’s musical satire, neither they nor the audience knows exactly what to expect. That’s why it was vital that the opening number hit all the right notes.

“Initially, I wrote a song that was kind of the lazy, bouncing, musical theater ‘Welcome to Our Town’ song, and it stayed that way for a little while,” executive producer Cinco Paul tells TVLine in the video above. “But then there was a point where I thought, ‘I need...

As a genre, musicals are up there with the Western: You either love them or hate them. They’re also genres that are easy to mock and/or subvert. Thus is the case with the new Apple TV+ series, “Schmigadoon,” an ambitious show that hopes to both modernize the musical while humorously poking fun at some of the more obvious narrative flaws of the genre. With hummable songs and a stellar cast of Broadway and comedy veterans, it’s almost enough to make you forget how surface-level the conceit comes across.

Melissa and Josh have been together for several years but are in a rut. Melissa sees their relationship in extremes of utter perfection or complete failure, while Josh puts in the bare minimum of effort and remains closed off. In a last ditch effort they go on a couples retreat only to get lost in the woods.

The couple...

Apple TV+ has set a star-studded ensemble cast for its upcoming musical comedy project starring Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong and executive produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Joining Strong are Keegan-Michael Key (Dolemite is My Name), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Fred Armisen (Portlandia), Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked), Aaron Tveit (Graceland), Dove Cameron (Hairspray Live!), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story film adaptation) Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin), Jane Krakowski (Dickinson) and Ann Harada (Avenue Q).

Written by Despicable Me duo Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the as-yet untitled comedy series follows a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship when they discover the magical town of Schmigadoon, in which everyone acts as if they’re in a studio musical from the 1940s. They then discover that they can’t leave until they find “true love.”

Key will play Josh, Melissa’s (Strong) long term, pragmatic partner,...

Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Armisen, Kristin Chenoweth and six more stars have joined Cecily Strong in an Apple TV+ musical comedy series from “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, the streaming service said Thursday.

Also added to the cast of the untitled show, which is co-created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, are Alan Cumming, Aaron Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ariana DeBose, Jane Krakowski and Ann Harada.

According to Apple, the series “follows a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship when they discover a magical town in which everyone acts as if they’re in a musical from the 1940s. They then discover that they can’t leave until they find ‘true love.'”

The streaming service plans to launch the show next year.

Key will be playing Josh, Melissa’s (Strong) long term, pragmatic partner, and the last person who wants to be stuck in this magical town.

Apple has filled out the cast for its upcoming musical comedy series starring and produced by Cecily Strong.

The Lorne Michaels executive-produced project is adding Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Armisen and Kristin Chenoweth, as well as seven others.

The as-yet-untitled series, which was announced earlier this year, follows a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship when they discover the magical town of Schmigadoon, in which everyone acts as if they’re in a studio musical from the 1940s. They then discover that they can’t leave until they find “true love.”

Key will play as Josh, Melissa’s (Strong) long term, pragmatic partner, and the last person who wants to be stuck in this magical town. Armisen, another “Saturday Night Live” alum, joins as Reverend Layton, the mild-mannered religious leader of the town. Chenoweth will play Mildred Layton, Reverend Layton’s morally superior wife who is in everybody’s business.

Keegan-Michael Key and no fewer than three Tony Award winners are set to join Cecily Strong in an Apple TV+ musical comedy series executive-produced by SNL boss Lorne Michaels.

Strong and Key lead a cast that is chockablock with talent from TV and theater, including Tony winners Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, Cabaret), Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, Pushing Daisies) and Jane Krakowski (30 Rock, Nine). Rounding out the ensemble are Aaron Tveit (Graceland, Grease: Live), Dove Cameron (Descendants, Hairspray Live!), Tony nominee Ariana DeBose (Hamilton), Fred Armisen (SNL), Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin) and Ann Harada (Avenue Q) .

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