“Bridgadoon, Schmigadoon.” Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong and Key and Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key are stretching their vocal cords in new sequence Schmigadoon, a few couple who’s caught in a world of music and dance till they will discover “true love.”
Apple TV+ has launched a brand new trailer for the six-part musical sequence, which lampoons the traditional musical Brigadoon (whereas additionally harkening again to different old-school productions, like Oklahoma, Carousel, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown). The musical comedy begins with Josh (Key) and his associate Melissa (Strong) climbing within the woods. They’re having issues of their relationship, a indisputable fact that will get much more apparent when they’re magically transported to a land outdoors of time: Schmigadoon, a happy-go-lucky neighborhood the place everyone is joyful and likes to sing about it.
As we see within the trailer, Melissa and Josh are trapped in Schmigadoon till they every can discover their “true love.” This is a bit awkward for them, as they’re presupposed to be those in love. But as they get to know and probably romance the opposite residents—which embody a number of Broadway veterans like Alan Cumming, Jane Krakowski, Kristin Chenoweth, and Ariana DeBose—they begin to study extra about themselves and what they need out of affection. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Key (who additionally starred within the Netflix musical movie Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey) shared his pleasure for singing and dancing onscreen as soon as once more—even when his character doesn’t really feel the identical manner.
“There was a lot of acting against type in Schmigadoon,” he mentioned. “I used to have to monitor myself like, ‘Keegan, stop tapping your foot. You don’t like musicals.’ It was really a challenge.”
Schmigadoon was created by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, the latter of whom additionally serving as showrunner and major songwriter. The six-episode season debuts on Apple TV+ July 15. In the meantime, Apple TV+’s different musical present, Central Park, simply returned with its second season.
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