{"id":350600,"date":"2026-09-18T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:10:10","slug":"photos-jennifer-simard-brings-tribulation-to-schmigadoon-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350600\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Jennifer Simard Brings Tribulation to Schmigadoon! On Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get a first look at\u00a0Schmigadoon!<\/a> on Broadway’s new Mildred Layton, three-time Tony nominee Jennifer Simard<\/a>, in newly released production photos above and below. Simard, most recently seen on the Main Stem in\u00a0Death Becomes Her<\/a>, joined the production September 8 at the Nederlander Theatre, succeeding original star Ana Gasteyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cast is led by Alex Brightman<\/a> and Sara Chase<\/a> as Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble, with Ann Harada<\/a> (Avenue Q<\/a>, Into the Woods<\/a>) reprising her role of Florence Menlove, Tony nominee Brad Oscar<\/a> (The Producers<\/a>, Something Rotten) as Mayor Menlove, Isabelle McCalla<\/a> (Water For Elephants<\/a>, The Prom<\/a>) as Emma Tate, Ivan Hernandez<\/a> (Dear Evan Hansen<\/a>) as Doc, Maulik Pancholy<\/a> (30 Rock) as The Reverend Layton\/Leprechaun, Max Clayton<\/a> (Bandstand, The Music Man<\/a>) as Danny Bailey, McKenzie Kurtz<\/a> (Heathers, Wicked) as Betsy, and Ayaan Diop<\/a> as Carson.<\/p>\n

Schmigadoon! ended this year’s Tony Awards tied with The Lost Boys<\/a> and Ragtime<\/a> as the season’s most Tony-winning musicals, each taking four categories. Along with its Best Musical win, the work took Best Original Score and Book of a Musical, both for Cinco Paul<\/a>; and Orchestrations, for Doug Besterman<\/a> and Mike Morris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The musical opened April 20 at the Nederlander, and is currently scheduled to play an extended run through January 3, 2027. Read what critics had to say about the Apple TV<\/a> series-turned-stage musical here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schmigadoon! was first produced as a two-season Apple Original series. The Broadway version follows the plot of the show’s first season, which follows real-world couple Josh and Melissa as they find themselves in Brigadoon Schmigadoon, a mysterious and magical world populated with characters, plots, songs, and dance numbers plucked from Golden Age musicals like Oklahoma!<\/a>, The Music Man, Carousel<\/a>, and more. The adaptation\u2014which features a book, music, and lyrics by series creator Cinco Paul\u2014includes all of the songs from the series’ Grammy-nominated score plus some new titles, including songs cut from the series.<\/p>\n

The cast also includes Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice<\/a>) as Josh Skinner, Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby<\/a>) as Melissa Gimble, Max Clayton (Chicago<\/a>) as Danny Bailey, Ann Harada (Avenue Q) as Florence Menlove, Brad Oscar (The Producers) as Mayor Menlove, Isabelle McCalla (Water for Elephants) as Emma Tate, Maulik Pancholy (It’s Only a Play<\/a>) as The Reverend, Ayaan Diop as Carson, Ivan Hernandez (Dear Evan Hansen) as Doc, and McKenzie Kurtz (Heathers) as Betsy. Brightman, Chase, Harada, Oscar, McCalla, and Kurtz are all reprising their work from the musical’s 2025 D.C. premiere. Harada also starred as Florence Menlove in the original series.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the company are ensemblists Afra Hines<\/a>, Becca Petersen<\/a>, Clyde Alves<\/a>, Jess LeProtto<\/a>, Joshua Burrage<\/a>, Kaleigh Cronin<\/a>, Kimberly Immanuel<\/a>, Lyrica Woodruff<\/a>, Nathan Lucrezio<\/a>, Richard Riaz Yoder<\/a>, Shina Ann Morris<\/a>, and Zachary Downer<\/a>; Carson alternate Miles McNicoll<\/a>; and swings Brandon Block<\/a>, Kevin Quillon, Lauralyn McClelland<\/a>, and Maria Briggs<\/a>. Casting is by Bernard Telsey<\/a> and Kristian Charbonier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: How Cinco Paul Wrote New Songs, and Rewrote Old Ones, for Schmigadoon! on Broadway<\/a><\/p>\n

The work made its world premiere in 2025 at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, with series choreographer Christopher Gattelli<\/a> directing and choreographing. Gattelli is reprising his work on the Main Stem. See what critics had to say about the premiere run here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schmigadoon!’s Broadway bow features set design by Scott Pask<\/a>, costume design by Linda Cho<\/a>, lighting design by Donald Holder<\/a>, sound design by Walter Trarbach<\/a>, and hair, wig, and makeup design by Tom Watson<\/a>. Pask, Cho, and Watson also designed the Kennedy Center staging.<\/p>\n

READ: Sara Chase and Alex Brightman on Why Schmigadoon! Is a ‘Joy Bomb’<\/a><\/p>\n

Lorne Michaels<\/a> and No Gurantees Productions are producing, alongside Micah Frank<\/a>, Caroline Maroney<\/a> for Broadway Video<\/a>, and Christine Schwarzman<\/a> and Megan O\u2019Keefe for No Guarantees. TT Partners<\/a> is general managing.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, Godspell<\/a>, and Sweeney Todd<\/a>. Apple canceled the show’s third season while it was still in production, though Paul previously told Playbill <\/a>that his goal is to bring all three seasons of Schmigadoon to the stage. Read Playbill’s exhaustive recaps of all first<\/a> and second<\/a> season episodes for a deep dive into the series’ many musical theatre Easter eggs, references, and parodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get a first look at\u00a0Schmigadoon! on Broadway’s new Mildred Layton, three-time Tony nominee Jennifer Simard, in newly released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-350600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}