‘Schmigadoon!’ Onstage at the Kennedy Center

The legendary town of Brigadone is manifested for every day every century Schmigadoon! -The dream of the high fructose fever in a town where life is a mixture of (overwhelming) musical plays in the middle of the century-it was transferred in less than four years. What a lotIncluding me, it was loved in this series is the way she wore her love for classic musical plays on her satin cuff, simultaneously in their conferences and gently roasting her old sensitivities. It is effectively, seam with your eyes roll.

Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio’s Cockeyed Pastiche of Golden Age Musical, first Recreen on Apple TV+ During the roaming epidemic, the stage is now fateful. In the first season, after all, go out Brigadone -Lenner and Louise in 1954, for two Americans who stumbled on a charming Scottish village in the eighteenth century-as well Oklahoma!and the Music man, South Pacific, and The king and me. The series of six episodes focused on a couple of the doctor, played by Cecison Strong and Kejan Michael Ki, who finds themselves, while on a journey on his back on the back, trapped in the town of (Bob 167) where almost everyone talks about their diaphragm and explodes in a song With the reliability of the cuckoo watch. Season Two – The brand was renamed Shamico He tried the list towards intense musical plays in the 1960s and 1970s (Think nightcluband Sweeini Toddand ChicagoAnd Pepper). It was destroyed when it was the third season EliminateBut my spirits raised when I heard that Schmigadoon! It will be rebuilt on stage To run 11 performances as part of the Broadway Center series at Kennedy Center.

The increasing couple of candidates twice Tony Alex Brietman and Sarah Chis play twice. After crossing a stone bridge, they are received with a welcome welcome number High atom like an Eye Eye. Josh is studying the sequence of the song and a vibrant dance with a cautious expression of a man faced by a flash crowd at the funeral; Initially, Melissa, a musical theater, believes that they toured the historical reactivation of Williamsburg before surrendering to the sugar talisman. It is a contrast that can tear the couple-or at least lead to some intensively embarrassing picnic auctions. City colors are bright as a bag of Skail.

From the opening scene, as it facilitates the Kubrick McCarm for the sale machine for Josh and Melissa, then it turns comfortably like a Murphy bed, expert designer Christopher Gatley moves things at a rapid pace. The memories of the past that opened each episode of the TV series, as well as some characters. (Duk Lopez’s parents have disappeared; Control Gabriel von Blaircum, which Angel Rida plays, absorbs some of their lines, and she has developed in her number “I always, always, I do not get my leg.” And music, and his words are Remix Rapodic – and he praises – Broadway Classics. Carosil. Melissa’s strong echo, “Enjoy riding” a little “if you were a bell” Men and dollsIt sings a sarcastic simulation for “Do -re-Mi” that reformulate Solfège Music In sex lesson. Milderd Lighton (Emily Skinner), the autonomous gatekeeper in the city (“I make sure that we are all shame! Solo in the fast” ordeal “, direct guidance Musician“I have faced a problem.” Songs, which can be the profession from complaints about “Sudanese bean shells in the street” to “Saadine sinners” to “billiards and coated women”, from their kind to a letter submitted to the editor in Schmigazette. Skinner’s staccato, filled with chaotic energy, deals with an easy -to -energy, with a digestive enzyme perseverance.

Among the newly written new numbers for the stage, “I thought I was the only one.” It is an accurate duet in which Mayor Menlof (Brad Oscar) and Reverend Lighton (Meliktoast Kevin del Aguila are associated with joint affection for French Round squares and rejuvenators – and made the entire sub -text. The largest music exit from the TV series sang by “well -known rich” Danny Billy (Ryan Vaskuiz). It would spoil the show to reveal the title of the song; It is sufficient to say that the Barvienvin carnival, which is wonderfully floundering, finds itself a tame – not the way you may expect it. Even if you do not hunt All referencesNew and old songs, mostly, work: as alternative straightness, as equal tap excuses to rhyme words such as “Froggy in Formaldehyde” with “Enjoy Riping”. At their best, do not listen much to the extent that the attachments wishing to melodies become.

However, although all the width tones can, the processing of production with the race provokes the inconsistent observation. The television series intentionally engaged with the musical method of the characters of the “1940s and Fifments of the last century” marginalized or caricature of colors without giving in to what the historian Ep Thompson “called the massive waiver of future generations. Although he is still engaged with the topic-“Love Love is waiting for you”, “He is a strange person, this man”, and “I thought I was the only one.” Away from thorny themes-the exact self-awareness of the stage has been reduced. To clarify what is clear: the delivery of a white actor and Josh reduces the chances of presentation to investigate these problems. Lines from the television series on “Color Paste” and “Miscegenation”, as did Mildred Layton noting that Josh and Melissa made “a strange couple”. It has also been a scene in which Josh is circulating with Emma Tate, The Black Schoolmarm, about “Menace”, Layton. When Kegan-Michael Key says to Emma, ​​”So she faces a problem with you too … Yes, this is line up,” there is a flash in her eyes from Anthraset, as if he was chosen in the trick she never knew; There is no such tête-à-tête in the Kennedy Center version (which, unlike the show, keeps the separate school group, with no image of Abraham Lincoln). On TV, when Josh Karson (Ayan Diop), Town Liesbing Town Cryer and Emma’s wing, with Kazu tells the boy: “When I was at school to be a doctor … there was no one like me in everything I had a group. Sometimes I became alone.

Josh Brightman also comes as a partner than his TV predecessor. (Given that all memories of the past have been given, the creative team may expect the audience to know already. some The audience’s members did not.) With less biography information, to assume, Josh’s motives become more mysterious. Did we mean to believe that his “nail” position is a re -summary of intimidation as Tot? If so, it is a simplification of Doltish. Is his tendency to emotional contempt for a personality or defect in the character? This production did not occur to its ballet. We cannot.

On the bright side, BRIGHTAN lives the entire discomfort of Josh in a land describing it as “then Walking dead It was also Rap“You see this in mixing a series of series from one scene to another; you hear it in the way that its voice becomes impressive with the vow every time it is encouraged to be part of the complex musical numbers. In Rendevus with Pitts The legal that you wear, “not this sitting”, it comes through the path that extends to the letters of the illness. Taste.

Regardless of some simple audio problems and amazing lines on the night I saw the performance, 21 members of the diverse support team are excellent, especially when you deal with the accelerated production schedule. (to Broadway theater production centerNew York actors study for only two weeks before traveling to the capital for three days of technology, then in the short term. Ann Harrada, a member of the only return team of the TV program, drinks her role as the mayor’s wife with an invaluable effort. The group, designed by Scott Pask, lit in a painter style by Jin Shrefar, and its two -dimensional trees rises to flies to reveal a painted background that includes a high balcony surrounded by a hotel, church, some homes, and all homes, all oversee cherry flowers.

In a world, the second Sondheim is like more than a sunny Rodgers and the opening of Hamerchtein, Schmigadoon! It provides an enormous dose of escaping from the golden age. Perhaps very very sometimes. As much as I enjoyed many songs, at the end of two and a half hours, I found myself thinking sadly from the original Schmigadoon!. Another embodiment may appear one day that restores – until he adds to what raises this. I hope it does not take 100 years.

Schmigadoon! He is at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, until February 9.