Are you into musicals? If so, you’re probably already familiar with the Apple TV+ show, Schmigadoon!, a series starring Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong. The first season had them living in a world injected with musicals from the 1940s. And as the trailer for the second season makes clear, they’ll be moving on to “Schmicago” where musicals from the ‘60s and ‘70s reign.
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The trailer confirms that the second season will feature at least Chicago, Hair, and Sweeney Todd. On the Sweeney Todd front—a musical about a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returns home to 19th century London looking for revenge (and meanwhile slaughters fellow city-dwellers so his landlady can bake them into her meat pies)—it looks like Alan Cumming’s Dooley Flint character will be inspired by said story and Kristin Chenoweth’s Miss Coldwell is likely his Mrs. Lovett.
Cumming was also in the first season of the show as another character called Mayor Aloysius Menlove, and he’s joined by other returning cast members in different roles including Dove Cameron as Jenny Banks, Ariana DeBose as Emcee, Jame Camil as Sergeant Rivera, Ann Harada as Madam Frau, Jane Krakowski as Bobbie Flanagan, Aaron Tveit as Topher, Titus Burgess as Narrator, Patrick Page as Octavius Kratt, and Martin Short as Leprechaun.
The original musical numbers once again come from show co-creator and executive producer Cinco Paul, whose other credits include the first three Despicable Me movies, The Lorax, and The Santa Clause 2. Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer, and Micah Frank also executive produce, and Robert Luketic directs.
You can sing along to the second season of Schmigadoon! starting on April 5, 2023 on Apple TV+.
