#josh skinner

[ashleyslorens]

SCHMIGADOON! 2x05: Famous as Hell

[lunadove]

Melissa when held hostage: Threatening to hurt her captor if he’s harmed her husband, shutting down his villain song, defiantly telling him he’ll never get what he really wants from her.

Josh when held hostage: So you know the story of Air Bud?

[urdtarah]

Elizabeth Olsen by Josh Skinner

[broadwaybohemians]

Schmigadoon 2x02

[everyones-internet-little-sis]

LOOK at this man

He has actual TEARS in his eyes looking at his wife do her thing on stage

After they were at odds last season, it's so nice to see Melissa and Josh loving and supporting each other.

Josh hated the idea of musicals last season, but now he's refusing to leave Schmicago until he gets to watch Mel perform and crying seeing how much she loves it

I love these two

[aarontveitisonfire]

Broadway Center Stage: Schmigadoon!

 Eisenhower Theater, The Kennedy Center

Based on the hit Apple TV series!

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life!

Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 2025

Price Range

$59.00 – $299.00

Runtime

TBA

Program

Based on the hit Apple TV series!

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life! Featuring hits from the Grammy Award®–nominated score—including the Emmy®-winning “Corn Puddin’”—plus exciting new songs!

The Apple TV show Schmigadoon! was executive produced by Saturday Night Live creator, executive producer, and 2021 Kennedy Center Honoree Lorne Michaels. Tony Award® winner Christopher Gattelli (Death Becomes Her, Newsies) will direct and choreograph the new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Emmy® winner and Grammy® nominee Cinco Paul. Schmigadoon! is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Video.

The show will star two-time Tony® nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, Broadway Center Stage: Spamalot) as Josh Skinner, Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) as Melissa Gimble, Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Kevin Del Aguila (Yellow Face, Some Like It Hot) as the Reverend Layton, Ann Harada (Cinderella, Avenue Q) reprising her role from the Apple Original series as Florence Menlove, McKenzie Kurtz (The Heart of Rock and Roll, Wicked) as Betsy McDonough, Isabelle McCalla (Water for Elephants, Broadway Center Stage: Footloose) as Emma Tate, Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In the Heights) as Doc Lopez, Tony® nominee Brad Oscar (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire) as Mayor Menlove, Tony ® nominee Emily Skinner (Suffs, The Cher Show) as Mildred Layton, and Ryan Vasquez (The Notebook, Hamilton) as Danny Bailey.

Book, music, and lyrics by Cinco Paul

Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli

Scenic design by Scott Pask

Lighting design by Jen Schriever

Sound design by Haley Parcher

Music direction by Steven Malone

Orchestrations by Doug Besterman

Music supervision by David Chase

Casting by The Telsey Office

This production will feature the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Jeffrey Finn is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Broadway Center Stage

[franceskray]

SCHMIGADOONCAGO (2021-)

[evies20dollars]

This might be pretty obvious, but I love how Josh and Melissa make the mistake of thinking that the way to help people find a happy ending is to find love, because that mentality is why they ended in Schmicago to begin with-- Schmigadoon helped their relationship and they are demonstrably so much healthier and more supportive of each other this season, but love can’t fix everything (and in the case of Dooley and Miss Codwell it’s actively making it worse)

[lydiahosek]

And speaking of Josh's character development:

"I became a surgeon so I could help people without having to talk to them" -> "I think I might actually like teaching!"

[goodplaceofunfortunatevents]

Patrick Page as Octavius Kratt in Schmigadoon!

[ashleyslorens]

SCHMIGADOON! 2x03: Bells and Whistles

[lunadove]

Schmicago is even more fun than Schmigadoon, and I think that’s because this time Josh and Melissa are a team.

They spent almost all their time in Schmigadoon bickering and trying to figure out their relationship, but in Schmicago it’s them against the (musical) world. 

And they really did learn from Schmiagdoon! They’re finding compromises when they disagree, they’re communicating, they’re on the same page when it comes to their relationship! (Kudos to the show for making it clear that while they’re unhappy with their life, it’s not because of their relationship, and they’re still very much in love.) 

They’re so cute this time around, and it’s so much fun watching them work together to figure out the rules of Schmiago. 

[starkmaiden]

I love how Melissa and Josh are a team this whole season, they really have changed so much since the first. Like there’s character progression and then there’s Schmigadoon.

[broadwaybohemians]

Melissa Gimble being amazing and Josh Skinner being utterly in love with his wife in Schmigadoon 2x05

[dragonsareawesome123]

Schmigadoon/Schmicago is like the Infinity Train except it’s a musical and it’s only there to help two specific people’s relationship.

[marvelmaniac715]

My Pitch for Schmigadoon! Season Three - ‘Into The Schmoods’

A few years have gone by and Josh and Melissa have twins (Oliver and Annie). Life is stressful and the family struggles to connect with each other, so either Josh or Melissa suggest taking a family vacation to Schmigadoon or Schmicago to destress. They get there and find a deserted woods, with nobody around. There’s a brief interlude with dancing rats (Cats) and a woman who looks remarkably like Bobbie from last season who insists that she’s a train (Starlight Express). There’s no catch this time, the family can leave whenever they want, but just as they go to leave (filled with disappointment) a chorus of children approach (the kid choir from Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Josh and Melissa’s kids get excited and run off into the woods with them. The rest of the season is Josh and Melissa searching for their children whilst learning Into The Woodsy life lessons about parenting from Schmigadoonians who now take the form of fairytale characters (Into The Woods) and (confusingly) Les Mis inspired characters such as a French woman who had to sell her hair in order to provide for her son (Fantine from Les Mis but genderswapped Cosette to bring back the boy who played Carson in Season One). Meanwhile the twins become disillusioned with life in the kid chorus and stage a coup against their leader (the Narrator from Joseph with subtle influences from Bill Sykes from Oliver). The season ends with the family being greeted by a third leprechaun, the triplet to the other two leprechauns, who’s name is Johnathan (in honour of Johnathan Larson). The final song of the season is a mix of Seasons of Love and Children Will Listen as Josh and Melissa - along with their children - return to modern society with a closer bond than ever before.

So what do you think of my pitch?