![]() The first season of the six-episode series will feature some familiar Broadway faces including Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ariana DeBose, Jane Krakowski, among others. What we were doing with the show is focus on the positive.” Paul added that it was always very important that the ensemble “looked like America today… We’re using this as an opportunity to deconstruct and comment on things that were maybe problematic and here let’s make them better. It’s funny, parody is a term that we could use but also I guess in a manner of speaking, it’s a deconstruction of the musical while we’re also respecting the musical at the same time.” Touching on classical theater’s history of falling short with regard to representation, Key said “given the environment that Josh and Melissa find themselves in, there is this mystical overtone that the people that live in this town just happen to be different racial backgrounds.” He added, “they just happen to exist there in a certain amount of harmony. Strong assured that it “is definitely a show where we’re not asking anybody to go in knowing everything that happens in Brigadoon or Oklahoma or even having seen those shows.” Everybody understands basically what a musical is.” And while some may not be familiar with this play or any of the classics, Paul believes the show will “work just as well for people who don’t know those musicals because it’s an introduction. The show’s title is a nod to the 1947 Broadway musical Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. ![]() And then I said, let’s make it a couple and they’re stuck there until they can find true love. “And then when the TV landscape changed and Ken and I were ready to move out of animation, it suddenly made sense.” He continued, “The big key was it had always been two guys stumbling upon a musical. ![]() “I had the idea for this over 20 years ago, but I had no idea what it should be,” Paul shared. ![]() 'Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies', 'Up Here' And 'Schmigadoon!' Choreographers On Driving The Narrative Through Motion ![]()
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