We get a jaunty, warm welcome to town in the musical's title song: "Schmigadoon, where the sun shines bright from July to June, and the air's as sweet as a macaroon."

Sound familiar? The rustic, quaint lyrics and melody are directly inspired by the title song of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, and the waving wheat can sure smell sweet..."

There's another, less obvious musical reference in a lyric sung by a young woman named Betsy: "The Wells Fargo wagon brought my pa's harpoon!" It's a quick nod to "The Wells Fargo Wagon" from Meredith Willson's The Music Man.

Danny Bailey, Schmigadoon's handsome, rakish carnival barker, proclaims he'll never settle down with one woman in this defiant number: "A cowgirl on the range in El Paso smiled at me and got out her lasso, and that's when I put on the gas, so you can't tame me!"

Danny's character is chiefly based on Carousel's Billy Bigelow, but his song mimics the melody of "I'm a Bad, Bad Man" from Annie Get Your Gun (composed by Irving Berlin) and the gleeful anti-commitment attitude of "I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma! And Danny's references to the girls he's shunned — a cowgirl and, in the next verse, a music teacher — bring Annie Oakley and Maria von Trapp to mind.

The Emmy Award voters must have been hungry, because they awarded Cinco Paul the prize for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "Corn Puddin'" in 2022. Besides being a silly ditty about dessert, the song marks a turning point where Melissa, to Josh's disgust, first joins in with the townspeople's song and dance.

"Corn Puddin'" is inspired by “A Real Nice Clambake” from Carousel and “Shipoopi” from The Music Man. It also recalls "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'," both in references to corn — Oklahoma!'s Curly sings of corn "as high as an elephant's eye" — and the lack of an ending G in the title.

If you're going to cast Martin Short in your show as a chipper leprechaun, you have to give him a song. The leprechaun (inspired by a character from the 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow) sings Schmigadoon's golden rule to Melissa and Josh: They can only leave if they find true love.

Can't a couple argue in peace without the townsfolk butting in with an annoyingly optimistic song? Not in Schmigadoon, Melissa and Josh find out.

"Just 'cause you bicker don't mean that you'll end quicker," the ensemble reassures the couple, but it doesn't help: By the end of their "Lover's Spat," they've broken up.

The structure of the song, with the couple's dialogue interspersed into the lyrics, evokes "Been a Long Day" from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

The tune is musically inspired by The Pajama Game’s “Once-a-Year-Day” (by songwriters Richard Adler and Jerry Ross), South Pacific’s “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame,” and “The Party That We’re Gonna Have Tomorrow Night” from the lesser-known Rodgers and Hammerstein show Pipe Dream.

In a tender tune inspired by classic operetta-style music — which gave way to Golden-Age Broadway sound — Schmigadoon's Mayor Menlove goes to comfort Melissa post-breakup.

By the end of the song, though, he's not only singing about hope for Melissa's future, but his own. Let's just say Mayor Menlove lives up to his name, but it's frowned upon in old-fashioned Schmigadoon.

Romantic drama ensues at the picnic basket auction, a charity event where townsfolk can bid on local ladies' baskets and win a date with them. The concept is inspired by Oklahoma!, in which two men fight over cowgirl Laurey's affections at a similar event called a box social.

"Enjoy the Ride" is a two-part number in the Schmigadoon! TV series, in which Melissa and Josh have separate romantic encounters in Schmigadoon with differing degrees of success. Only Part 1, Melissa's scene with Danny Bailey, is in the stage musical, and Josh's side was replaced with a new song (more on that next).

Thematically, "Enjoy the Ride" is inspired by "If I Were a Bell" from Guys and Dolls, also about giving oneself over to attraction.

“Not That Kinda Gal” is one of two new songs added specifically for the Schmigadoon! musical. This song expands on the TV show's "Enjoy the Ride (Part II)" to give Betsy, a flirtatious farmer's daughter modeled after Oklahoma!'s Ado Annie, a dedicated solo.

"Unless you eat dinner, you ain't gettin' no dessert — no, I'm not that kinda gal," Betsy sings, but her body language suggests otherwise to a bewildered Josh.

So much for everything Danny sung about eight numbers ago. Danny Bailey declares he'll settle down and start a family with Melissa after spending a romantic night together, but he's moving too fast for Melissa's liking.

The end of the song is inspired by Carousel's “Soliloquy,” where Billy Bigelow sings, "I never knew how to get money, but I’ll try! [...] I’ll go out and make it or steal it or take it or die!" Danny's version includes about a dozen additional synonyms for "steal" — so many that Melissa just leaves mid-speech.

Cinco Paul has said he was parodying Hammerstein's redundant use of "steal" and "take" in the original lyric.

Yes, the double meaning is intentional. Florence Menlove sings of her husband being "queer" as in "unusual," but she's not off the mark sexuality-wise, either. She just doesn't quite know that part yet: "Sometimes it may seem like he is too good to be true, like there's a man that I can't see just achin' to break through," she muses.

The song is inspired by “You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan” from Carousel, though that showtune doesn't have LGBTQ+ implications. It also thematically incorporates Carousel’s “What’s the Use of Wonderin” and The King and I’s “Something Wonderful,” both about women justifying men's behavior as something it's not.

From the title, one might think this is a sweeping, inspirational sendoff number like The Sound of Music's "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" or Carousel's "You'll Never Walk Alone." Nope — it's a comic sequence! As Josh repeatedly attempts to escape Schmigadoon with any townswoman who's willing, the ladies express their eagerness to go quickly before they're deemed old spinsters (read: early 20somethings).

This song is inspired by Frank Loesser's gospel-tinged "Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat" (from Guys & Dolls) and "Brotherhood of Man" (from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).

"With All Your Heart" is schoolteacher Emma Tate's first big number, in which she teaches the kids — and by extension, Josh — a lesson in not giving up.

The song isn't directly inspired by a classic showtune, but Tate's character recalls caring, bookish ingenues like The Music Man's Marian Paroo and The King and I's Anna Leonowens. Plus, this number involves group tap dancing, and it doesn't get much more classic Broadway than that.

If you can teach basic music theory with "do-re-mi," why can't you do the same thing with sex ed? When OB-GYN Melissa discovers an expecting couple has little clue how they even conceived their child, she sings this tune — a parody of "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music — to teach the Schmigadoonians about the reproductive system.

Another new song added for the stage musical, “I Thought I Was the Only One” is a duet between Mayor Menlove and Reverend Layton, Schmigadoon's pastor. As it turns out, they might share the same forbidden desire.

Similarly to "Enjoy the Ride," "Suddenly" shows Melissa and Josh's respective romantic encounters with Schmigadoon townsfolk. The number is inspired, melodically and thematically, by grand love-confession ballads like South Pacific’s "Some Enchanted Evening," The Sound of Music’s "Something Good," and The Music Man’s "Till There Was You."

A fan-favorite moment from the Schmigadoon! TV show came with Kristin Chenoweth's "Tribulation," a fast-talking tune inspired by "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man. Just as Harold Hill once sang, "Ya got trouble right here in River City," pious pastor's wife Mildred Layton warns the townsfolk, "We've got tribulation in Schmigadoon."

In a breathless four minutes, she rails against Melissa and Josh's upending of Schmigadoon's old-fashioned ways. Among the many signs of "promiscuity and dеpravity" she abhors are the emergence of ragtime music and billiard parlors, two things also referenced in "Ya Got Trouble."

Schmigadoon! departs from the classic-musical format by giving Countess Von Blerkom, a character inspired by The Sound of Music's Baroness Elsa Schraeder, a big song where the Baroness never had one.

Here, the Countess laments on behalf of all the theatrical women left behind when the male lead falls for the ingenue: "Fell in love with Cole’s 1930 Rolls, dreaming I would be his bride, but when his chauffeur turned out to be a her, they both took me for a ride..."

The number is written in the style of Cole Porter, particularly evoking "Always True to You (In My Fashion)" from Kiss Me, Kate.

True love is finding the person you'd do anything for — like sing even though you don't like musicals. At the show's climax, Josh breaks into song — a simple and a cappella, but deeply meaningful song — for the first time to declare his love for Melissa.

"I am not a man of many words, never been romantic like all the lovesick herds," Josh tells her. "I laughed at every sentimental thing, but you make me wanna sing."

Josh isn't the only one who's had a change of heart by the end — nearly all of Schmigadoon has let go of old ways, opened their hearts, or discovered new possibilities for what their lives could be.

Musically, the finale is different from all that came before, too. The song borrows instrumental elements from Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin and Godspell — post-Golden Age musicals that foreshadow the TV show's progression into '60s and '70s shows with season 2.

We won't get that era on stage, unfortunately, as the musical only covers season 1. But this finale is still an appropriate sendoff for us, the audience, into the wide world of Broadway outside the Nederlander Theatre as we begin our own journey out of Schmigadooon!

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