Yesterday Smash went out the way it came in, brilliantly. Throughout the season we have heard different versions of Broadway, Here I Come, but the one that was performed at the faux Tonys was the best one of them all. So whether you loved the show, hated it, loved to hate it or never seen it, listen the song and think what could’ve been for season 3.
So what would’ve been had it been renewed? Here is what season 2 EP Josh Safran told Entertainment Weekly he had mapped out for the show had it been renewed, “…after Karen is at Table 46 at the end of the episode, before Jimmy comes to talk to her, an agent played by Nadja Dajani comes over to her and says, ‘I know you didn’t win tonight, but I want to tell you I think you’re incredible and I don’t just think you’re a stage star — I think you’re a movie star.’ It would have paved the way for what the plan for season 3 was.” Then he added, “The plan for season 3 in my mind was a Hollywood movie musical. It would shoot in New York. I felt like after two seasons of watching two shows full trajectories, I didn’t want to repeat the story again so I thought I would take the season off and do a movie musical still using Broadway actors, still using Broadway stages, maybe it would have even been set in the world of Broadway. Who knows because we didn’t even get that far but it would have given audiences a season to [see] a different way of muscials being put together and then you could come back to Broadway in season 4. You see the seeds that are in the finale.”
Reading what he had in mind for the new season, makes me wish another network would pick it up so we can see what could’ve been. Smash is a cable show and not one for broadcast television. Broadway is just not something people get on the broadcast channels, but people who watch cable get it a little more. Can you imagine was VH1 or Bravo or USA could do with this show? It would spectacular!
