‘Carousel’ has a clambake. ‘Sweeney Todd’ has pies. And ‘Schmigadoon!’ has, well, corn puddin'. But there’s a very good reason, series co-creator Cinco Paul reveals.
’s Melissa Gimble, digs the residents’ wacky habits of breaking into song-and-dance numbers, while her boyfriend,It was the opening number of another musical entirely that got Paul started. In“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” cowboy Curly marvels that “the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye.”
Although he’d never had corn pudding himself, Paul says “it sounded homey” and “small-town Americana.” Plus, he says, “I was really writing the song that would annoy Keegan’s character, Josh, the most” and one that “would drive him to say, ‘we have to leave this place.’” “It’s going to push her to want to join in and her having so much fun crosses the line for him,” Paul says. “We wanted to really push the difference between them and their different attitudes.”’s buxom farmer’s daughter, Betsy McDonough, who adds another complication to a relationship that’s already on the rocks. That erotic subtext makes its way into the song too, with lyrics like, “if he wants my puddin’ / he’ll have to marry me.
“There is a playfulness to a lot of these Rodgers and Hammerstein songs—and certainly the ones in Lerner and Loewe’sIt’s not just the music and lyrics of “Corn Puddin’” that draw heavily from the past. Series choreographerwhose work on this and other numbers earned him an Emmy nomination, says he made nods to the works ofWest Side Story
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