nominated for Tony Schmigadoon! stars Alex Brightman and Sara Chase, Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble, winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical, will bow out in the musical Cinco Paul at the Nederlander Theater on January 17, 2027. Future casting for the roles is to be announced.
The couple created their roles and are currently leading the musical as a real-world couple as they find themselves in Brigadoon Schmigadoon, a mysterious and magical world populated with characters, plots, songs and dance numbers from golden age musicals like Oklahoma!, The music man, Carouseland more. The Apple TV+ series adaptation, which features a book, music and lyrics by series creator Paul, includes every song from the Grammy-nominated score plus a few new tracks, including songs cut from the series.
The current cast also includes Jennifer Simard (Death suits him) like Mildred Layton (until December 1), Ann Harada (Avenue Q, In the woods) in the role of Florence Menlove, Brad Oscar (Producers, something rotten!) as Mayor Menlove, Isabelle McCalla (Water for the elephants, the ball) like Emma Tate, Juan Pablo Di Pace (Fuller house) as Doc, Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock) as Reverend Layton/Leprechaun, Max Clayton (Bandstand, The Music Man) as Danny Bailey, McKenzie Kurtz (Heathers, wicked) as Betsy and Ayaan Diop as Carson. RuPaul’s Drag Race Judge Michelle Visage will succeed Simard in the role of Mildred Layton starting December 4. The casting is provided by Bernard Telsey and Kristian Charbonier.
The show finished this year’s Tony Awards tied with The Lost Boys And Ragtime as the most Tony-winning musicals of the season, each in four categories. In addition to its award for Best Musical, the work won Best Original Score and Book of a Musical, both for Cinco Paul; and Orchestrations, for Doug Besterman and Mike Morris.
The musical opened on April 20 at the Nederlander and is currently scheduled to run until April 4, 2027. Read what critics had to say about the Apple TV series-turned-musical here.
The company is rounded out by ensemble artists Afra Hines, Becca Petersen, Clyde Alves, Jess LeProtto, Joshua Burrage, Kaitlyn Davidson, Kimberly Immanuel, Lyrica Woodruff, Nathan Lucrezio, Richard Riaz Yoder, Shina Ann Morris and Zachary Downer; Carson replaces Eldridge Taylor, Jr. and balances out Brandon Block, Kevin Quillon, Lauralyn McClelland and Maria Briggs.
READ: How Cinco Paul wrote new songs and rewrote old ones to Schmigadoon! on Broadway
The work made its world premiere in 2025 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, under the direction and choreography of choreographer Christopher Gattelli. Gattelli resumes his work on the Main Stem. Check out what critics had to say about the first broadcast here.
Schmigadoon!The Broadway arc features Tony-winning orchestrations by Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, musical supervision and arrangements by David Chase, musical direction by Steven Malone, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Donald Holder, sound design by Walter Trarbach, and hair, wig and makeup by Tom Watson.
READ: Sara Chase and Alex Brightman explain why Schmigadoon! Is a “bomb of joy”
Lorne Michaels and No Gurantees Productions produce, alongside Micah Frank, Caroline Maroney for Broadway Video, as well as Christine Schwarzman and Megan O’Keefe for No Guarantees. TT Partners provides general management.
Schmigadoon! premiered on Apple TV+ in 2021, with a second season in 2023 that sent its characters to Schmicago, complete with parodies of ’70s musicals like Pippin apple, Divine spellAnd Sweeney Todd. Apple canceled the show’s third season while it was still in production, although Paul previously told Playbill that his goal was to bring all three seasons together. Schmigadoon to the stage. Read Playbill’s exhaustive recaps of every episode from the first and second seasons for a deep dive into the show’s many Easter eggs, references, and musical theater parodies.
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