![]() “I think it’s a good place!” Strong said. “Or you could bring the real wrong person and they would, uh . . . “This feels like a great place to take someone to show off that I live in New York,” Gardner said. It was Gardner’s first time, and her eyes widened as a pile of men in short shorts burst into a number from the obscure Off Broadway musical “A New Brain.” Strong slid into a corner booth with her fellow “S.N.L.” cast member Heidi Gardner. Patrons had to show proof of vaccination so that they could huddle around the piano mask-free (it’s more fun to sing “The Phantom of the Opera” when you’re not dressing the part). ![]() Strong looked relieved to be back at Marie’s, underneath the colorful twinkle lights. “When I watch now, I sing all of Kristin Chenoweth’s songs along with her,” she said. Along the way, she memorized every other character’s lines, just for kicks. A self-professed “theatre dork,” Strong was all in. Whether this is a nightmare scenario or a dream ballet depends on your tolerance for Rodgers and Hammerstein. In the new show, called “Schmigadoon!,” Strong plays one half of a couple (opposite Keegan-Michael Key) who go hiking and stumble into a magical town in which the residents randomly break into song. Although she has sung often in her nine seasons as a cast member of “Saturday Night Live” (most recently while playing the Fox News personality Judge Jeanine Pirro, drunkenly belting “My Way”), and she stars in a new Apple TV+ series that sends up mid-century musical theatre, she seemed shy about singing. ![]() On a recent evening, the actress Cecily Strong walked into the bar for the first time in ages. A cramped subterranean dive where people bray aerosolized show tunes at one another, it could have been a superspreader ground zero. Like many of the city’s saloons, Marie’s Crisis, the tatty but venerable West Village piano bar, was closed during the pandemic. Cecily Strong Illustration by João Fazenda ![]()
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