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Character Breakdown: SCHMIGADOON Cast Unpacks Their Roles
Jan 26, 2025
Rehearsals are underway for the brand-new stage adaptation of Schmigadoon, which arrives at the Kennedy Center next week. Watch as the cast unpacks their roles in this video.
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I got loves more good it, cheats it constantly
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Sometimes I get to wandering. Does she love it more than me
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Does she love it more than me? I play Melissa Gimble, and she stumbles into the world of Shmigadoon with Josh
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And we're just sort of observing classic musicals and commentating on it the entire time, in a loving way
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Yes. I play Josh Skinner, a doctor who hates musicals. so it's a huge stretch for me
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And I mean that genuinely. The hardest part I'm having is my whole time
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essentially until the end of this show, I have to actively abhor musicals
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which is completely antithetical to who I am, and it's impossible to watch people on stage
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during these rehearsals and not feel pride, joy, and have to tamp those down
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is the hardest thing I've had to do in years. Oh, I'm Florence Menlove
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I play the wife of Mayor Menlov. What do I love about her
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thing. She's so kind and she loves her husband so, so much. She's completely
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accepting and warm and, you know, I love her. And I'm playing Mayor Menlove
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who does have a small secret that we will find out in the course of the piece
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But I love, he's a good guy. He wants everyone to be happy
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He wants Shmigadoon to be the place that, you know, to maintain this joy
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world. And so yeah, there's a very positive feeling that I enjoy
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I'm playing Betsy. She's the farmer's daughter. And she's a little flirtatious
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She's a little shameless in her flirtation. And she's got her eyes set on Josh
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And I love her tenacity. Oh my God I playing Doc Lopez And he is he had some hurts in his past and some loss and that made him hard a little cold
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And then he falls in love and is a changed man in the end. Oh, I play Emma Tate, the school marm
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She's based on Mary than Librarian. But she's a little more progressive than Mary in the librarian because she gets to dance a bit
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So I get to be serious and then silly in my dancing, which I love
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I think it really, I play Danny Bailey. It's the like Billy Bigelow character, and I think it really encompasses this sort of half-love letter to the thing
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and also poking fun at it. It's like a whole carousel arc, but in a very unserious way
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Well, I play Mildred Layton, who is married to the Reverend Layton
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and she's sort of the archetypal prim proper villainous. Yeah, who's just sort of, she's just type A controlling, you know, in a fun way
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A fun book banner. Yes. Yes, and the Reverend Layton is the opposite of that
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Very soft-spoken, a doormat of a man. But, you know, maybe he'll come out of his shell a little bit during the show
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It's fun. It's especially fun right now when the world feels a little complicated
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So it's great to walk into a place where every day is just about finding joy
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and finding laughter. That sounds so trite, but I don't know how to say that
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any more truthfully. Yeah, it's true. We keep saying, it's such a great cast
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it's such a great group of people. Everybody in the room is just having fun and enjoying it
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and is super talented. And I find us like watching other people do their scenes
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and laughing. And that's like been the most fun for me is watching everybody else
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It's so fun
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