Now that we have our Marilyn and our Joe on Smash, it is now time for rehearsals to finally begin on the NBC show tonight at 8p. Ivy is settling into her lead role and she has it out for her Karen. Little by little she will work her magic to diminish Karen’s role in the show. Even though she seems to be getting her way, Karen will be getting help from some unlikely people and we will be getting some really cute scenes with the them all.
But Smash isn’t only about them, Nick Jonas guest stars as a former-Broadway child star who is now a huge Hollywood TV star who is back in NY for a visit. He was discovered by Eileen and Derek and now they are throwing him a big birthday party. Eileen is hard up for cash to pay for Marilyn, so she asks Lyle if he will sponsor the play. Before he invests his money, he wants to see if it is worth his money. Once you see the song that they put on for him tonight, you will know exactly what he is going to do because it is a worth every penny and more.
I know some people are starting to lose their faith in the NBC show, but I think tonight’s episode is the best one so far. I mean I hated Katharine McPhee on American Idol, but not I am rooting for her like crazy on Smash. How many shows can say that?
After last week’s smashing first episode, you wondered how long will Smash keep us waiting to find out who will be cast as Marilyn Monroe. Well you won’t have to wait too long because tonight on NBC at 10p we find who she will be?
First we will watch Karen and Ivy battle it out in callbacks. Then you will see how much they want the role and what they will do to get it. Finally we will have our Marilyn. Which girl do you think will get the title role? Team Karen (Katharine McPhee) or Team Ivy (Megan Hilty)?
You will have to tune in tonight to find out who the lucky girl is in an episode that is even better than the buzzed about and thoroughly enjoyed pilot.
It is rare that a show lives up to the hype, but that is exactly what Smash does. The most buzzed about show in ages debuts on NBC tonight at 10p and you are going to see why everyone who sees it loves it.
Julia Houston (Debra Messing) is taking a break from writing Broadway musicals to adopt a baby girl with her husband. Then one day while her co-writer Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and her are hanging out, his assistant suggests that they do a musical about Marilyn Monroe. Her break is over and they write a song for the prospective show. The video goes viral and now they are working on the full show which doesn’t please her husband.
Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) is a Broadway producer who is getting a divorce and she decides to screw him and invest in Marilyn. She brings along one the toughest and greatest directors in town, Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) who has a bitter history with Tom. Tom doesn’t want him on board, but once he and Julia see what he can do, they decide to make it somehow work.
Now it is time for the auditions. The writers want their friend Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) for the role of Marilyn, but Derek wants a star. In walks a young woman from Iowa named Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee), she might be green but she has it. Now the two women are going to battle it for the title role and only one will walk away with it.
Ever since I saw the pilot over the summer, I have told everyone and anyone that they have to watch this show. For months I have been singing the praises of Smash and I am so happy that tonight you will get to experience what I did. You will be talking about this show that leaves you belting out your happiness.
To give you a hint how wonderful this show is, I hated Katharine McPhee on American Idol but I found myself rooting for her on this show.
Smash is real. Smash is raw. Smash is fabulous. Smash is everything you want from a show and more. Smash is a Smash!!!
Smash is set to makes it small screen debut on NBC this February 6th at 10p, but you don’t have to wait until then to see the show that everyone who has seen it has been buzzing about. NBC has made the pilot available online and you can watch to see why everyone is saying this show is going to be a huge Smash.
I could sit here and review it for you, but why not spend 46 minutes of your day to do it yourself.
Seriously this is the first pilot that I have loved as much as when I saw Glee for the first time. But unlike the other show, I know they are not going to f*ck it up after 13 episodes.
So please take the time to watch one of the best television shows to hit the airwaves in recent years. I promise you will be singing its praises like the rest of us!!!
On February 6th at 10p the most praised new show of season is making its debut on NBC and you are going to see why everyone loves this show. Smash is about the making of a Broadway play and the inspiration of choice is the legendary Marilyn Monroe. But the beautiful blonde bombshell was not their first choice.
Executive Producers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who brought Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can to Broadway, wanted to do reinvent another movie as a musical for the show, but that idea was negated. Then another EP Theresa Rebec,k who has plenty of dramatic shows on her resume, wanted to go with what she studied in school. She told us at the NBC Winter Press Tour Day, “I actually have a PhD in Victorian literature and so I know all these, like, Victorian novels that would make great musicals or, you know, I had a lot of ideas about feathers and sword fights because I also thought it would be cool to see, like, art people, like, doing, you know like, doing costumes and being contemporary. You know what I mean? I like that stuff.” That idea was turned down because Wittman said, “I don’t do feathers.” Which I am so happy he killed because I don’t think the show would be as appealing for television as it is had they gone with that. So then they thought as Wittman exclaimed, “They want sex and singing, sex and singing.” With that Rebeck concluded, “And so somehow between those two poles, we wound up Marilyn.” She is so the perfect choice because women want to be her and men want to do/be her and that means everyone can relate with screen siren. They will want to watch a show that is about the making of her. We know her story, so let’s see they make that fairytale a reality we can all sing about.
While Smash won’t make its official television debut until February 6th, you will be able to catch the first episode on the internet. On January 16th you will be able to see it streamed on all of NBC’s digital download partners, including iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, PlayStation, Voodoo and Samsung Media Hub. It will also be available on NBC OnDemand on that day. Then a week later it will start streaming online via NBC.com and Hulu up until the premiere. So if you can’t wait until the premiere, you can catch the most buzzed show that way and I highly suggest you do because you will want to watch it more than once, heck you will want to watch it more than ten times. I lost count how many times I have seen it a while ago.
