Alex Brightman Is Finally Playing a Normal Guy in Broadway’s Schmigadoon!
It’s a measure of Alex Brightman’s versatility that the same person who unleashed a comedic tsunami as the title ghost in Beetlejuice is now the wry recipient of everyone else’s craziness in Schmigadoon! Cast as the reluctant-to-commit orthopedic surgeon Josh Skinner, Brightman finds himself trapped in a musical theater fantasy town with his longtime love Melissa Gimble (Sara Chase). Amid homages to a heaping h…