No Stunt Double Needed! ‘Schmigadoon’ Team and Jane Krakowski Break Down Impressive Acrobat Scene

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Emily Longeretta Jane Krakowski had one musical number in Season 1 of Apple TV+’s “Schmigadoon!” and she performed it from behind the wheel of a cramped convertible.

It wasn’t much of a stage, but the Emmy nominee and musical theater veteran used every inch of the leather interior to sell her wistful yet seductive song, eventually wedging her high heel into the steering wheel to steady herself for the climatic high note.

The performance is proof that no number is too small for Krakowski. But series creator and Emmy-winning songwriter Cinco Paul wanted to give her more to do in Season 2, which puts the series’ central couple Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) on the seedy streets of Schmicago, inspired by 1960s and ’70s musicals like ”Chicago” and “Cabaret.” It is Krakowski’s favorite musical era, but she was in the dark as to who she’d play in Paul’s mashup world of sin and showmanship. “Could I still do Sally Bowles, or maybe Roxie Hart?” she pondered. “You go through all these dream scenarios.

Would I finally get to play Miss Lovett from ‘Sweeney Todd,’ which is a role I’ve always wanted to do?” Fortunately, Paul was greedy in creating her role as Bobby Flanagan, the show-off lawyer representing Josh in his trial for the murder of a cabaret singer. “The minute I saw there was a vamp written under me explaining who I am as a lawyer, I knew I had waited my whole career for this,” Krakowski says. “Just reading the script, I didn’t want to be anybodyelse in this.” Bobby has shades of Roxie and others, but she’s primarily a gender-flipped homage to “Chicago’s” grandiose lawyer Billy Flynn, whose courtroom prowess is on full display in Bobby’s big Episode 3 number, “Belles and Whistles.” “She needed a