NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 92

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 3:22pm

Wow, so excited about this! They should just make Hayes a series regular.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 3:50pm

They are really stacking the show with some nice names.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 4:59pm

I was wondering which Will & Grace name would be the first to guest star. Was hoping it would be Mullally, but I'll settle for Hayes.

[JulesReverie]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 7:08pm

They are pulling out all the stops for season 2 and then some making every possible readjustment to please fans, I can't remember the last time a show got gutted and completely remodeled second season all in the fans' favor, I was expecting they'd be an Alan Ball and pull a True Blood (-ignoring fans and continuing to sabotage the fan favorite character and give all the good characterization and screen time to the fan detested character)

[Owen22]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 8:15pm

So, according to Vulture, Sean is playing a TV actor who is staring in a stage musical version of "Dangerous Liasons" which might or might not (the article is unclear) be also starring Ivy...

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 8:18pm

I wonder if Sean Hayes' character is the lead of the rival musical that is suppose to come in Season 2.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 8:22pm

"I was expecting they'd be an Alan Ball and pull a True Blood (-ignoring fans and continuing to sabotage the fan favorite character and give all the good characterization and screen time to the fan detested character)"

Except True Blood's ratings more than doubled between seasons 1 and 2, so umm, yeah...

[Plum]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 8:40pm

If the musical of the season is based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the musical reflects on the characters' lives, it looks like I'm not getting my wish for less emphasis on who's sleeping with whom.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:36am

come on Canuck Eric, it is NOT the BWW tradition to let pesky facts ruin a good dishy post.

Updated On: 8/14/12 at 03:36 AM

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:40am

if the new rival show is based on LIAISONS, wouldn't it be better served (if it's JHud's show, unless her diva role is in yet ANOTHER fictional B'way show like Leo Nor's was) to be called CRUEL INTENTIONS? and if not, i wish it could be THE GAME which is an actual musicale of the classic play that Barrington Stage has done twice.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:40am

if the new rival show is based on LIAISONS, wouldn't it be better served (if it's JHud's show, unless her diva role is in yet ANOTHER fictional B'way show like Leo Nor's was) to be called CRUEL INTENTIONS? and if not, i wish it could be THE GAME which is an actual musicale of the classic play that Barrington Stage has done twice.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:54am

"it is NOT the BWW tradition to let pesky facts ruin a good dishy post. "

Ha, touche!

[Plum]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:31am

Cruel Intentions was the teeny bopper version that came out in the 90s, right? Why would Smash's creators - real or fictional - want to pay for the right to use that name when the original novel is in the public domain?

I do admit that Liaisons in a musical theater context just makes me think of the song from A Little Night Music. Liaaaaai...zzzz....

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 7:13am

Stars remember Marilyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4842xWMwCU

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 12:28pm

Hayes did a good job playing someone who gave Leslie Knope trouble on 'Parks & Recreation', so it'll be interesting to see how he does that on this show.

Updated On: 8/14/12 at 12:28 PM

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 1:38pm

Sean's most villainous TV guest shot may have been on 30 ROCK as Kenneth the Page's relative who trapped Tracy Jordan MISERY style...

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:37pm

Don't know how reliable this is, but Sheryl Lee Ralph has been cast as the mother of Jennifer Hudson's character on SMASH:

http://www.vulture.com/2012/08/exclusive-smash-casts-dreamgirl-sheryl-lee-ralph-jennifer-hudson.html

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 6:09pm

Wow. Season 2 is really shaping up to be AMAZING!!

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 9:47am

Shows to me the new show runner has a good plan and is executing it well with lining up these new characters.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 10:00am

I hope the humor shines through this season. It was mostly stifled throughout the first season.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 10:31am

I hope the humor shines through this season. It was mostly stifled throughout the first season.

They were in tech!

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 11:07am

I think the "I'm in tech" joke was dead shortly after that very episode aired. Let it go.

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 11:08am

Eh. "I'm In Tech" is one of the only, if not THE only, actual theatre memes. It's a thing. It happened.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 11:13am

I think the "I'm in tech" joke was dead shortly after that very episode aired. Let it go.

I'm with you. It's tired.

[wicked1492]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 11:25am

I'm tired. From all this TECH.