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There is no end to its willingness to pander to those literate in Golden Age musicals.
There are jokes about thinly written female characters, and a group dance number about a weird food celebration.
Alan Cumming plays a closeted character with the last name Menlove.
Detailed medical lyrics about reproduction are set to the melody of a famously simplistic pedagogical musical number.
Most exhausting,Schmigadoonis perpetually and glibly aware of how mannered and bric-a-brac it feels.
It is so sweet, so innocently knowing, so pleased with itself.
Frankly, the whole thing is mortifying.
I love it with the helplessness of a musical protagonist being yanked into an indulgent, unnecessary dream ballet.
Further, the pair discover they cannot leave Schmigadoon until they find true love.
BecauseSchmigadoon!is nothing if not corny.
In its own way,Schmigadoon!is as blinkered as the musicals it so lovingly mimics.
Even its harshest angles are eventually wrapped in a warm, four-part harmony embrace.
Id happily take a second helping.
