Joining in the fun for the second season of “Schmigadoon!” Tituss Burgess is back with his Broadway roots after five seasons — and five Primetime Emmy nominations — for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

Still, it seems surprising Burgess, 44, wasn’t in the show’s first season.

“I will say this,” he began in a Zoom interview, “how we decide to show up in the world, at whatever point we are in, really kind of dictates how the world shows up for you. So perhaps I was not ready to intercede.”

Is his Narrator, who sings and seems slightly malevolent, a parody of the musical “Pippin” ’s Leading Player?

“I was very familiar with ‘Pippin’ but,” he noted, “it is not a parody. It’s more of a homage. A wink and a smile. We’re borrowing from the shades of all the things that these musicals have offered because we’re telling our own unique story.”

As to deciding who his wily Narrator would be, “I was able to borrow from my own darkness, from my own demons and really tap into the side of me that maybe even I’ve been trying to hide from the world.

“I was really there.” he said, emphasizing, “I am very positive thinking. Always conscious of offering the best energy to the world around me. But it is not without its own struggles of its own. You know, being a human is difficult and I was able to tap into my own quiet rage as I was raised as a Black man.

“I didn’t have to go very far to find my own darkness.”

“Schmigadoon!” wreaks happy, hearty havoc with Broadway’s most sacred cows. This season’s musicals range from send-ups of “Cabaret,” “Chicago,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Sweet Charity.” Each episode is a little mini-musical.

“We blocked the shots for the whole thing while we were doing all the episodes,” Burgess said. “It was a large cast, a bunch of stars who had other projects and I don’t know how any of it got done to be perfectly honest with you.

“For instance, shooting the opening was over several days, over about two-and-a-half months. So you might say 10 to 20 seconds of story on Day 2, and then on Day 50 you might do another couple bars of that same song.

“So it takes a great deal of retaining what the emotional through line of the story is at all times.” Is he lip-synching to a prerecording?

“I liked to sing everything live — except for the one day that I got sick and lost my voice. But all of my stuff is live.”

“Schmigadoon! Season 2” streams Wednesday on AppleTV+