New York
After its heyday in the middle decades of the 20th century, the Broadway musical became something of a niche art form, still beloved by many but likely to raise snickers among others for its essential form, in which seemingly normal human beings spontaneously break into song and dance. Even as it slyly acknowledges the reasons for the snickering, the musical “Schmigadoon!” is aimed with laser-like precision at a niche market within a niche market: not just casual fans of Broadway musicals, but those glassy-eyed adorers who have long since worn out their vinyl soundtracks of—oh, so sorry!—original cast albums of the most lustrous titles from the so-called Golden Age.
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