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The Cast of Schmigadoon! at The Kennedy Center 📷 Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman

Schmigadoon! at The Kennedy Center

author: Leonard Taube

What do you get when you take an old classic musical from a bygone era, pepper it with a cast of Broadway stars, toss it in a sauce of catchy song and dance numbers and top it off with shavings of parody?  What else but Schmigadoon!, a new musical which is holding its world premiere at The Kennedy Center in our nation’s capital.  Loosely based on the 1947 Broadway musical Brigadoon (later to become a film version in 1954 starring Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse) about a fictitious village in the highlands of Scotland that only appears once a century,

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James Monroe Iglehart (center) as King Arthur and the cast of Spamalot ????Jeremy Daniel

Spamalot at The Kennedy Center

King Arthur: “Have you heard of this Broadway?”
Sir Robin: “Yes Sire, and we don’t stand a chance there.”

Actually, Spamalot, the musical version of  the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a bona-fide smash, first lighting up the 2004-05 Broadway season, and now expertly mounted at the Kennedy Center through May 21st, as a part of their ‘Broadway Center Stage’ programming. Honestly, this production of Spamalot is dizzying,

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