‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: TV Series Leaps To The Stage With Corn Puddin’ For Everyone

Titaníque is more outlandish (and funnier), Something Rotten! was sharper (and funnier) and Smash, well, Smash was none of those. Taking a comfortable, crowd-satisfying spot somewhere in the middle of recent (or recentish) stage musicals that mock stage musicals (and Titaníque qualifies for its ad-lib Just In Time or Two Strangers excursions), Schmigadoon!, based on the first season of the Apple Original series, is a bright, pleasant diversion from whatever real world villainy is bedeviling you at the moment.

Though in choosing its mass-appeal musical theater punchlines Schmigadoon! typically demands little more knowledge than things we might have learned on Glee or seen in the odd Simpsons episode, the Cinco Paul musical has enough “if you know you know” moments to tickle the theater die-hards. If you know the fate of any lustful carny hunk who can bust a ballet move at a moment’s notice, Schmigadoon! will charm.

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