McKenzie Kurtz, Ana Gasteyer, Isabelle McCalla, Brad Oscar & More Join SCHMIGADOON! on Broadway — Page 2

Anastasia_Beaverhausen said: "I wish I had a lawyer I could getinvolved because that is some serious false advertising."

I mentioned on the other thread that this seems like something a regulator should be looking into. Perhaps, when we encounter this phenomenon, we should report it to the NYC Dept. of Consumer and Worker Protection here. I don't know how effective this might be, but it's cheaper than hiring a lawyer.

The big thing that this has to overcome is that it's doing something- parodying musicals and poking fun at musical tropes and conventions- that has been done over and over onstage for a long time now and isn't doing anything particularly new with it (it also is specifically making fun of musicals that are now 60+ years old and no longer even really reflect modern works). At least as a TV series, it had some novelty because of the medium.

I liked Schmigadoon season 1 well enough but thought it really came into its own in season 2, when it started to actively mash up plots and characters in fun and surprising ways. Season 1 was just a straightforward "gee, aren't musicals kinda silly?" romp.

Updated On: 2/24/26 at 12:15 PM

I would bet that Oh Mary was a comparison point in discussions about bringing Titanique in and they do have a lot of overlap. Schmigadoon, probably less so- it's more of a conventional musical comedy.

ACL2006 said: "CoffeeBreak said: "Could this end up the best musical of the year?"


No, I expect the audience who loved Shucked to love this, but its long-term prospects seem dim.