![]() I met the series creator Cinco Paul, a guy with a funny name, in New York a few years ago. How was the idea of “Schmigadoon!” pitched to you? You can’t beat it when Mama Rose sings, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” in “Gypsy.” It doesn’t get any bigger or better. Strong: I loved “Into the Woods.” I’m a “Gypsy” girl, too. Review-Journal: Did you have any favorite musicals growing up? Strong’s first book, “This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir,” is out Aug. “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels is an executive producer. The cast also includes Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Krakowski and Martin Short. They accidentally wander into a magical town where every day the people live like they’re in a Golden Age musical - and cannot leave town until they find true love. Her new series “Schmigadoon!,” debuting July 16 on Apple TV+, stars Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as Melissa and Josh, a couple working on their rocky relationship by backpacking on a weekend trip. “Unfortunately, when you gotta perform, you can’t deny it.”Īfter nine seasons on “SNL,” where she has played everyone from Stormy Daniels to Kendall Jenner to Kate Middleton to Melania Trump, Strong is branching out while she decides her Not Ready for Prime Time future. “A drama teacher once told me that you should only enter a career in the arts if you really can’t do anything else,” the 37-year-old says. ![]() ![]() We don’t know what this thing is in you,’ ” Strong recalls during a Zoom meeting from her New York house.Ī career in comedy was a given. “I wore that tape out until it was just shredded,” she says. On Sundays, she would re-enact sketches she’d seen the night before on “Saturday Night Live” and then go off to memorize all the “SNL” commercials, which she kept on a VHS tape. Growing up the daughter of an Associated Press bureau chief and nurse practitioner in Oak Park, Illinois, Cecily Strong was the odd one. Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key in “Schmigadoon!" (Apple TV+) ![]()
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