Schmigadoon is created with “so much love” for the LGBTQ+ community, according to star Jane Krakowski. The Apple TV musical comedy follows married couple Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) as they stumble across a magical town, titled Schmigadoon, that’s trapped in a Golden Age-style musical.

The newly-released sophomore season sees the town transform into Schmicago as the series pays homage to darker and sexier musicals of the 60s and 70s such as Chicago, Cabaret and Sweeney Todd.

Krakowski tells GAY TIMES that the camp stylings of Schmigadoon and Schmicago is “where I live, it combines my love of musical theatre and television comedy and puts them all together into one.

This is a niche little gem of a project that I’m so happy to be part of.” The beloved actress, who’s best known for iconic roles in Ally McBeal, 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, plays Bobby Flanagan in season two, a parody of Billy Flynn from Chicago and an homage to the female Bobby in the 2018 and 2021 revivals of Company. “These musicals that we cover in season two, the 60s and 70s, are the ones that influenced me the most as I was growing up in musical theatre and loving the Gwen Verdon’s, the Chita Rivera’s, the Bob Fosse’s and Michael Bennett’s,” she explains. “This was it for me, so I relished in all of it.

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