{"id":324045,"date":"2021-08-13T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:30:08","slug":"schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Schmigadoon!&#8217; Creator Breaks Down the Musical References in the Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3993779077e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3993779077e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/#Episode_1_%E2%80%9CSchmigadoon%E2%80%9D\" >Episode 1: \u201cSchmigadoon!\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/#Episode_2_%E2%80%9CLovers_Spat%E2%80%9D\" >Episode 2: \u201cLover\u2019s Spat\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/#Episode_3_%E2%80%9CCross_That_Bridge%E2%80%9D\" >Episode 3: \u201cCross That Bridge\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/#Episode_4_%E2%80%9CSuddenly%E2%80%9D\" >Episode 4: \u201cSuddenly\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schmigadoon-creator-breaks-down-the-musical-references-in-the-songs\/#Episode_5_%E2%80%9CTribulation%E2%80%9D\" >Episode 5: \u201cTribulation\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Schmigadoon!&#8217; Creator Breaks Down the Musical References in the Songs<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div> The ebullient new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le TV+ <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/schmigadoon\"><i>Schmigadoon!<\/i><\/a> might be aimed squarely at musical theater fans, but it\u2019s also amazingly the kind of show that will please people who cringe at the perky, bursting-into-song conventions of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>The show, in which a backpacking couple wind up trapped in a town where everyone behaves as if they\u2019re in a golden-age movie-musical, features dialogue, commentary and lyrics that lampoon the silly and heightened tropes of the form. (\u201cIt\u2019s like <i>The Walking Dead<\/i> was also <i>Glee<\/i>!\u201d Keegan-Michael Key\u2019s Josh exclaims.) But at the same time, it isn\u2019t afraid to poke fun at people who mock musicals for their heightened realism. (\u201cWell, you seem okay with magical hammers that come back when you call them,\u201d Cecily Strong\u2019s Melissa replies after Josh complains that \u201cpeople don\u2019t just burst into song in real life.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>In writing songs that largely pay homage to the Broadway musical, Cinco Paul, who cocreated the show with Ken Daurio and wrote the score, says he was aiming for the highest form of parody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it was about making these songs feel as if they really could have existed in a real musical,\u201d Paul says. \u201cEverybody in this town, they are sincerely singing their feelings. And putting too many jokes in the songs is a betrayal of that in a way. The more real they felt, the better the comedy and everything was going to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the series came to Paul almost 25 years ago; the title and magical premise was inspired by the bonkers Lerner and Loewe musical <i>Brigadoon<\/i>, which was transformed into a 1954 Vincente Minnelli movie starring Gene Kelly. In the film, two friends on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>-hunting vacation stumble upon a mystical village in the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>Paul eventually pitched the idea to Andrew Singer, <span class=\"x_gmail-s1\">who runs <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> honcho Lorne Michaels\u2019 production company; Singer suggested<\/span> the duo should be a couple in a long-term relationship who have hit a rough patch and are facing some strain. \u201cIt should be about making a relationship work. That was the lightning bolt that unlocked it for me,\u201d Paul admits. \u201cThere\u2019s not enough movies about a couple that\u2019s deep into [a relationship] and how hard it is to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up listening to cast albums such as <i>Camelot<\/i> and <i>Guys and Doll<\/i>s and playing piano (and even acting) in high school musicals, Paul jokes that he\u2019s been \u201cpreparing for <i>Schmigadoon!<\/i> my whole life.\u201d Still, before he set out to write the songs, he played through piano scores for classic musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, and others. \u201cI thought, if this is going to be authentic, I want to emulate those tendencies the best that I can,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Paul discusses the musical touchstones for key songs featured in the first five episodes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_gmail-p2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episode_1_%E2%80%9CSchmigadoon%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Episode 1: \u201cSchmigadoon!\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009068\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009068\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1009068 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1-1014x507.jpg\" alt=\"Schmigadoon Episode 1\" width=\"1014\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1-1014x507.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1-570x285.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-1.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1009068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the series name and premise are a takeoff on <i>Brigadoon<\/i>, its big opening number, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLWNsBhV8CE\"><b>\u201cSchmigadoon!\u201d<\/b><\/a> is a direct homage to the rollicking, roof-raising title song in <i>Oklahoma!<\/i>, which is actually a second act show-stopper in the oft-revived 1943 musical. With an earworm melody, huge dancing chorus and singing the name of the title locale with an extra-elongated vowel sound (in <i>Schmigadoon!<\/i> it\u2019s the \u201ci\u201d instead of the \u201cO\u201d in <i>Oklahoma!<\/i>), the song spoofs the genre\u2019s idyllic (and simplistic) depiction of small-town life.<\/p>\n<p>Paul credits Doug Besterman and David Chase, who did the orchestrations and arrangements, for the song\u2019s success. \u201cI said, \u2018Let\u2019s go to town with the ending and extend it as much as possible,\u2019 and their eyes lit up. So they added the \u2018Schmiga, Schmiga, Schmiga\u2019 [lyrical repetition] and then spelling out the name of the town in the song. It [originally] went even longer [but] I realized there\u2019s a fine line between irritating Josh and irritating everybody watching!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Episode 1, Melissa meets and is romanced by the town\u2019s resident \u201crapscallion,\u201d Danny Bailey (Aaron Tveit), a direct parody of <em>Carousel<\/em> leading man Billy Bigelow. Musicals, Paul explains, often have an \u201cI\u2019m not going to fall in love,\u201d song, so he wrote Bailey the tune,<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U3EWYrMnuOQ\"> <b>\u201cYou Can\u2019t Tame Me\u201d<\/b><\/a> in which the character sings about his perpetual bachelor destiny and his longtime refusal to settle down. Thematically, the first part of the song, Paul says, is a nod to \u201cI\u2019m a Bad, Bad Man\u201d from <i>Annie Get Your Gun<\/i>. Then it turns into the \u201cIf I Loved You\u201d from <i>Carouse<\/i>l, which chronicles Billy and millworker Julie Jordan\u2019s growing attraction. Musically, the song also pays tribute to the lilting \u201cSurrey With the Fringe On Top\u201d from <i>Oklahoma!<\/i><i> <\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schmigadoon! \u2014 Corn Puddin&#039; Singalong | Apple TV+\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dj5mJGyoYIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Melissa and Josh attempt to order lunch, the waitress Betsy (Dove Cameron) asks if they\u2019d like to try the local favorite<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dj5mJGyoYIM\"> <b>\u201cCorn Puddin&#8217;\u201d <\/b><\/a>\u2014which leads to the townsfolks breaking into a toe-tapping yet completely puzzling tune about their love for the famous local dish. The folky number is a homage to \u201cIt\u2019s a Real Nice Clambake\u201d from <i>Carousel<\/i>, the type of jaunty tune that\u2019s pointless to the plot and doesn\u2019t flesh out any of the characters, but remains a joyous song-and-dance number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really about coming up with a song [that would] leave Josh befuddled and be like, \u2018Why are you singing about this food item?&#8217;\u201d Paul also cites \u201cShipoopi,\u201d the famous nonsense Buddy Hackett song from T<em>he Music Man<\/em> that \u201cbrings everything to a crashing halt\u201d in that musical. \u201cIronically, though, in our show it really moves the story forward because it pushes Josh to say, \u2018Okay, we need to leave.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_gmail-p2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episode_2_%E2%80%9CLovers_Spat%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Episode 2: \u201cLover\u2019s Spat\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009069\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009069\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1009069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-1014x570.jpg\" alt=\"Schmigadoon Episode 2\" width=\"1014\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-1014x570.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-1420x798.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2-570x320.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-2.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1009069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the bridge out of town, Melissa and Josh argue about the possibility that their relationship isn\u2019t true love and realize they\u2019re stuck in Schmigadoon until they find it. The townspeople sing and dance to a high-spirited anthem, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R5sOsenUL5s\"><b>\u201cLovers\u2019 Spat\u201d<\/b><\/a> as their breakup unfolds. The jaunty, upbeat song contrasts with the contentious situation.<\/p>\n<p>The bouncy intro echos the opening of \u201cThere\u2019s Nothing Like a Dame\u201d from <i>South Pacific<\/i>. \u201cWe\u2019re in what I call Rodgers and Hammerstein polka mode,\u201d Paul says. He cites the rousing \u201cOnce A Year Day\u201d from <i>The Pajama Game<\/i> as an influence, as well as \u201can obscure song\u201d from Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s 1955 musical flop <i>Pipe Dream,<\/i> \u201cThe Party That We\u2019re Gonna Have Tomorrow Night.\u201d And the barbershop quartet is a nod to the feel of Meredith Willson\u2019s <em>The Music Man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Melissa runs into Mayor Menlove (Alan Cumming) in the woods, he tries to cheer her up after her split from Josh. Then he breaks into a soaring ballad of melancholy yearning, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_hRqJFQYaw\"><b>\u201cSomewhere Love Is Waiting For You.\u201d<\/b><\/a> As he dreamily croons, Melissa realizes he\u2019s a closeted gay man struggling with his sexuality, a little nod to the homoerotic subtext often laced through Golden Age musicals. The operatic song\u2019s key musical influences are two tunes from <i>South Pacific<\/i>\u2014Emile\u2019s aching \u201cSome Enchanted Evening\u201d and Emile and Nellie\u2019s budding-love duet \u201cTwin Soliloquies.\u201d Thematically, Paul says the tune is in the mode of \u201cthe classic mentor\u2019s advice song or cheer up song\u201d\u2014\u201dMore I Cannot Wish You\u201d from <i>Guys and Dolls<\/i> and \u201cClimb Every Mountain\u201d from <i>The Sound of Music.<\/i> Plus, \u201cIt allows Mayor Menlove to reveal a little more than he would feel comfortable with just speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schmigadoon! \u2014 Enjoy the Ride Singalong | Apple TV+\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ih7wCT8pacE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Melissa gets her first big song with the jazzy <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ih7wCT8pacE\"><b>\u201cEnjoy the Ride\u201d<\/b><\/a> in which she lets loose and embraces her bad-girl side in a duet with Danny outside the Tunnel of Love. (Dove Cameron\u2019s waitress Betsy gets to croon a couple of hilariously funny verses of her own, filled with sexual innuendo, in a scene with Josh.) Paul says the song\u2019s content echoes \u201cIf I Were a Bell\u201d from Frank Loesser\u2019s <i>Guys and Dolls<\/i>. But musically it\u2019s inspired by another Loesser classic, \u201cBaby, It\u2019s Cold Outside,\u201d a longtime holiday favorite that was first used in the 1949 musical-comedy \u201cNeptune\u2019s Daughter\u201d (and won the Oscar for Best Original Song).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_gmail-p2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episode_3_%E2%80%9CCross_That_Bridge%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Episode 3: \u201cCross That Bridge\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009070\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009070\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1009070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3-1014x507.jpg\" alt=\"Schmigadoon Episode 3\" width=\"1014\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3-1014x507.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3-570x285.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-3.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1009070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Melissa bonds with the sweet, patient Florence Menlove (Anna Harada), the mayor\u2019s wife, who loves her brooding yet caring husband, but laments how distant he can be and the \u201clong walks\u201d he loves to take. \u201cThere\u2019s often the song of a woman singing about a man and how she loves him in spite of his flaws,\u201d Paul says. \u201cYou try to find the well that these musicals always go to, and then play with that and twist it and do it in a different way.\u201d The title of her song, <b>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E5218gArrGU\">He\u2019s a Queer One, That Man O\u2019 Mine<\/a>\u201c<\/b> is a nod to \u201cYou\u2019re a Queer One, Julie Jordan\u201d from <i>Carousel<\/i>. But the key stylistic and thematic inspiration is another song from <i>Carousel\u2014<\/i>Julie\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s the Use of Wond\u2019rin,&#8217;\u201d along with the ballad \u201cSomething Wonderful\u201d from <i>The King and I<\/i>, \u201cMy Man\u201d from <i>Funny Girl <\/i>and \u201cCan\u2019t Help Lovin\u2019 That Man\u201d from <i>Porgy and Bess<\/i>. \u201cThere are all of these songs where the women are like, \u2018Well, I guess I love him even through all of these horrible things he does.&#8217;\u201d So I decided to turn it on his ear because [Florence] really loves her husband\u2026except for one thing\u201d\u2014he\u2019s a closeted gay man. Paul\u2019s favorite lyric? \u201cShow me any other man more tender or expressive\/I only wish that nightly he were slightly more aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schmigadoon! \u2014 Cross That Bridge Singalong | Apple TV+\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJIo5h5bFqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the third episode, Josh ropes most of the town\u2019s women to the bridge to find one who might qualify as his true love\u2014and earn his ticket out of this godforsaken town. There, the ladies sing the jaunty <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJIo5h5bFqg\"><b>\u201cCross That Bridge\u201d<\/b><\/a> urging each other to find a man and get that wedding ring before it\u2019s too late. \u201cIt plays with the idea of many of these women in these musicals desperately want to get married,\u201d Paul says. \u201cOne of my favorite lines in the whole series is, \u2018All the gals who dilly dally, Wind up dying in an ally\u2026&#8217;\u201d Paul says he loves female-led ensemble numbers, and \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair\u201d from <i>South Pacific<\/i> was a particular inspiration here, along with two of his favorite musical theater songs of all time, both by Frank Loesser\u2014\u201dSit Down, You\u2019re Rockin\u2019 the Boat\u201d from <i>Guys and Dolls<\/i> and \u201cBrotherhood of Man\u201d from <i>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying<\/i>. \u201cThey\u2019re rousing, gospel-tinged, 11 o\u2019clock numbers,\u201d Paul says.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_gmail-p2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episode_4_%E2%80%9CSuddenly%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Episode 4: \u201cSuddenly\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009203\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009203\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1009203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose-1014x507.jpg\" alt=\"Schmigadoon Episode 4\" width=\"1014\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose-1014x507.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose-570x285.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-4-ariana-debose.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1009203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ariana DeBose (<i>Hamilton, West Side Story<\/i>) plays smart yet sweet local schoolmarm Emma, the only woman in town who Josh hasn\u2019t tried to cross the bridge with. He thinks she may be The One and he actually falls for her a bit. A nod to Marian the librarian from <i>The Music Man<\/i> and Anna from <i>The King and I<\/i>, Emma is an enlightened, independent-minded woman who helps Josh come to some realizations. And he helps her open up and reveal her long-buried secret about her younger brother, Carson, a parody of <i>The Music Man<\/i>\u2018s Winthrop Paroo (with his adorable lisp and penchant for popping up all over town to shout out various plot turns). Emma\u2019s big song, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4GDw88qmLxA\"><b>\u201cWith All Your Heart,\u201d<\/b><\/a> featuring kids dancing on school desks, is in the mode of \u201cGetting to Know You\u201d from <i>The King and I<\/i>. The song\u2019s melody came to Paul in the middle of the night, and he im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely left his bed and went to the piano to write it. He calls its music and theme a \u201cmishmash\u201d of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen\u2019s \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d from the Frank Sinatra film <i>A Hole in the Head<\/i>, and Richard Adler and Jerry Ross\u2019s \u201cHeart\u201d from <i>Damn Yankees<\/i>, with elements from <i>Mary Poppins<\/i> and <i>Thoroughly Modern Millie <\/i>tossed in.<\/p>\n<p>After Melissa gets a job as a nurse for handsome Doc Lopez (Jaime Camil), she tries to help out a pregnant but unmarried young woman, Nancy, whose baby daddy is Seaman Freddy Drakes. \u201cI\u2019ve got so many questions and no one to ask. For instance, where does the baby come out? I feel like there are a couple of options\u2026but both seem crazy!\u201d Nancy laments. When Melissa tells a shocked Nancy where the baby will emerge, Freddy comments, \u201cMa\u2019am, I don\u2019t even use language like that.\u201d That prompts Melissa to sing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PONx0J5tAXg\"><strong>\u201cVa-Gi-Na,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> a parody of Julie Andrews teaching the kids to sing in \u201cDo-Re-Mi\u201d from <i>The Sound of Music<\/i>. \u201cI felt there was a freedom to go directly into the parody world with this because it\u2019s coming from Melissa\u2019s character. It\u2019s her realizing \u2018Hey, I\u2019m in a musical, I know what the tropes are, I\u2019m going to do a song right now.\u2019 It seemed perfect that she\u2019s an OB-GYN, so she\u2019s singing a teaching song. I knew Cecily would kill it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh and Melissa\u2019s budding new romances with Emma and Doc Lopez converge at the end of the episode in the ballad <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_nMH8ut1MDM\"><b>\u201cSuddenly\u201d<\/b><\/a> featuring the couples dancing with each other in the moonlight, filmed in split-screen. Musicals, Paul says, often feature a tune that seals the deal for two characters who\u2019ve come to the realization that they\u2019ve fallen in love. But instead of having the two lovers sing to each other, the duet winds up being between Emma and Doc Lopez, who confess their romantic feelings for Josh and Melissa. Paul says that scene and the song are directly inspired by \u201cSomething Good\u201d from the moonlight gazebo scene between Maria and Captain Von Trapp in <i>The Sound of Music<\/i>. There\u2019s also shades of \u201cSome Enchanted Evening\u201d from <i>South Pacific<\/i> and \u201cI\u2019ve Never Been In Love Before\u201d from <i>Guys and Dolls<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_gmail-p2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episode_5_%E2%80%9CTribulation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Episode 5: \u201cTribulation\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009072\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009072\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1009072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5-1014x507.jpg\" alt=\"Schmigadoon Episode 5\" width=\"1014\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5-1014x507.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5-570x285.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-episode-5.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1009072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An inspired homage\/parody of \u201cYa Got Trouble\u201d from <i>The Music Man<\/i>, <b>\u201cTribulation\u201d <\/b>is a showcase for Kristin Chenoweth\u2019s Mildred Layton, the town scold and head of the puritanical group \u201cMothers Against the Future.\u201d \u201c[\u2018Ya Got Trouble\u2019] to me is a masterpiece,\u201d Paul says. \u201cIt\u2019s like nothing that ever existed before.\u201d Mildred has been warning the townspeople about Josh and Melissa, these bad-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> outsiders with their loose, \u201cbig city\u201d morals, and the danger their newfangled ideas pose to the town\u2019s wholesome values. In the tune, she sings about the \u201cstrife and tribulation\u201d that\u2019s infiltrated Schmigadoon since they arrived. \u201cIs that what our town\u2019s become? Is that the future we want for our children?\u201d she sings in a patter-like cadence, \u201cPromiscuity and depravity! Interlopers interloping, with hearts colder than the hinges of hell!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really fun to go online and do the research and find all these archaic terms to put in the song, like \u2018tommyrot and flapdoodle,\u2019 \u2018jiggery pokery\u2019 and \u2018milk going sour unstrained in the springhouse.\u2019 I wanted it to be authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chenoweth delivers a tour-de-force performance that was filmed in a four-minute single take, at the insistence of director Barry Sonnenfeld and choreographer Christopher Gattelli, with a Steadicam following her around the town square. \u201cShe was cursing me for a while because she said, \u2018This is 18 pages and there are no rhymes. How am I supposed to learn this?\u2019 We had set aside the whole day to film the scene, but I think she nailed it on the third take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schmigadoon! \u2014 Tribulation Singalong | Apple TV+\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PmS5JIfSkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another Broadway-turned-television star Jane Krakowski pops up in the fifth episode as the blonde, pearl necklace-draped Countess, Doc Lopez\u2019s fiance\u00e9. She\u2019s a direct spoof of The Baroness, Captain Von Trapp\u2019s girlfriend and romantic rival to Maria, in <i>The Sound of Music<\/i>. Since the series aimed to deconstruct and reimagine dated elements from classic musicals, Paul and the writing staff realized that they should give the Countess some brains and agency. So even though she still looks like a wealthy socialite, they turned her into a successful scientist who invented stainless steel! Writer Allison Silverman, Paul explains, had penned a hilarious monologue about all the guys in the Countess\u2019 life who had left her (\u201cPowerful men can never resist the help,\u201d she says). So in the episode, her character sings the jazzy, Big Band-style <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-7HHHUVo4Ps\"><b>\u201cI Always, Always, Never Get My Man.\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it as a great opportunity for a Cole Porter-style song with a more sophisticated feel. This is very much a parody of \u2018Always True to You in My Fashion\u2019 from <em>Kiss Me, Kate<\/em>. It also has one of my proudest lines in the show\u2014\u2019There was Tex who traded stocks, hired a girl to darn his socks\/When Texy\u2019s socks led to sexy talks\/I was out on my can!\u2019 It\u2019s my lesser attempt, but it\u2019s definitely a nod to [Porter\u2019s] incredible wit and clever lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Krakowski killed her song-and-dance performance\u2014which takes place inside a convertible sports car\u2014the Countess <i>is<\/i> still a villain. \u201cI mean she pulled a gun on our protagonist and leaves her stranded in the countryside,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd she <i>is<\/i> a Nazi!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Schmigadoon!<\/em>, Fridays, Apple TV+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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