Schmigadoon!
Opening Night: April 20, 2026
Theater: Nederlander Theatre
Website: schmigadoonbroadway.com
Welcome to Schmigadoon—the magical town where every day is a musical. Everybody has a song for everything, the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, and the only bridge out of town leads nowhere. When one couple accidentally wanders in, they discover the only way to escape is by finding true love—which may or may not be with each other.
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April 20, 2026
A sendup of musicals needs to fulfill three major requirements: It must know its stuff inside out, it must be precisely crafted, and of course, it must be funny. Let’s just dispense with the suspense: Cinco Paul’s “Schmigadoon!” hits the trifecta. This new Broadway show, which opened on Monday at the Nederlander Theater, is a blast.
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While some may toss Schmigadoon! aside as a frivolous night out, Paul has created a world deeply rich in humanity, charm, and musical theatre heritage. Go do yourself a favor and get trapped in Schmigadoon, I think we could all use it right about now.
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April 20, 2026
Schmigadoon! as a TV show was a gift to musical theater buffs whose greatest joy will forever be Leslie Uggams’ musical stylings on June’s bejeepers. Paul, the stage show’s sole author and composer, has maintained every one of the original property’s hilarious and charming treasures while making the work of condensing six television episodes into a well-paced stage musical look effortless.
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April 20, 2026
If you watched the TV series, you’ll recognize some of these moments – along with others such as the fan-favorite celebration of “Corn Puddin!” – but what you might miss is the inherent strangeness of seeing these fantasy worlds displayed within the hyper-real confines of a television screen. On stage, Josh and Melissa, our wanderers from the land of reality, are subsumed into an actual musical rather than a vaguely Truman Show-style refraction. Something’s lost in the translation, but with dazzling costumes, hyper-energetic singing and dancing and joyful spirit filling the Nederlander, quibbles end up banished beyond the flats.
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April 20, 2026
The effervescent stage show, from creator Cinco Paul and director-choreographer Christoper Gattelli, is all but irresistible — a giddy love letter to the form that’s enough to turn even the most skeptical curmudgeon into a walking heart-eye emoji.
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Director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli (who just adapted Death Becomes Her for Broadway last year) makes the absolute most of the medium his show skewers so deliciously.
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April 20, 2026
Under the protective cover of parody, Schmigadoon! is free to deliver real pleasures of old-school American musical comedy: catchy melodies with clever lyrics, laughs on the regular, a little romance and a large cast of seasoned pros in big, joyous production numbers.
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April 20, 2026
Schmigadoon! replicates much of the golden-age façade while seeming afraid of those shows’ political shadows. The show gestures at the classic targets of old-timey sexism, small-mindedness, and nativism—much of it embodied by Gasteyer’s scheming character—but only in the safest possible ways. Its aims instead are centered squarely on the importance of Josh and Melissa’s romance, the value in getting one partner to open up for another. I left the theater amused, but with a nagging feeling I’ve kept experiencing recently—that of loving an incredible shrinking genre.
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April 20, 2026
Melissa and Josh are ready to leave Schmigadoon. And so are we. I walked away contemplating if somewhere buried in there is a smart, hilarious musical that questions, and not so sappily, the point of old musicals today. But what’s the use of wond’rin?
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April 20, 2026
Cinco Paul hasn’t so much parodied Meredith Willson, Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein. He has copied them. The humor comes from our recognizing the matchup. Gee, doesn’t “Tribulation” from “Schmigadoon!” sound just like “Trouble” from “The Music Man”? After that singular thrill has quickly evaporated, there is the two doctors’ spoken commentary about the absurdity of people singing on stage when people in real life never do that. In other words, theatergoers are being asked to pay multiple times their monthly Apple subscription to enjoy that joke live. Repeatedly.
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Schmigadoon! has been properly prepped and restructured for the stage. But apart from those cosmetic changes, it’s in the same boat as any number of less honorable adaptations: failing to offer much that’s truly new.
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April 20, 2026
There is an irony here. On television, “Schmigadoon!” felt like a gateway, a playful introduction to Broadway traditions for a wide audience. On Broadway, that sense of discovery disappears. The references no longer surprise; they just sit there, piling up with diminishing returns.
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Both for fans of the TV show and for new audiences, it’s a gift to get such a thoughtful, well-done, and hilarious tribute to the Golden Age of Broadway. Schmigadoon! is a pure delight for any fan of musical theatre, both beautiful to behold and guaranteed to make you smile and laugh. So grab some corn puddin’ and bid on that basket.
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Golden Age Broadway was fueled first and foremost by hope. The promise that America could be better, that its people could be better, was baked into musical theater of its time, and now leavens this wonderful entertainment in an era when belief in the betterment of our country seems to be in short supply. We need it, and Schmigadoon! supplies it.
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Schmigadoon! has now been smartly and successfully retooled as a full-fledged Broadway attraction that opened Monday at the Nederlander Theatre. The first season of the series condensed here into a classic two-act Broadway format, the whimsical Schmigadoon! content brightly crystalizes into stage existence as a fond, funny salute to old school musicals like Carousel and The Music Man as delightfully populated by an ensemble of expert performers.
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Fans of the show can argue that “Schmigadoon” has something serious to say about the importance of being optimistic, the true meaning of love, the evils of bigotry, the possibility of change and redemption. Detractors can argue that the Golden Age musicals the show imitates communicate those same sentiments, and do so more effectively, which is why they have endured. I don’t know that I need to pick a side. “Schmigadoon” is sort of like “The Book of Mormon” and more like “Forbidden Broadway,” and, like both, it made me laugh.
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