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Bombshell Benefit Concert
#25Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/19/14 at 5:31pmI'm with qolbinau. If they get Bernadette Peters to be part of this it will be really something. What's the venue again?
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#27Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/20/14 at 10:37amHopefully Megan Hilty, Bernadette, and Will Chase will return. Bombshell has a great score that I hope translates well to stage.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#28Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/29/14 at 5:27pm
New BOMBSHELL concert details:
*Throughout its two-seasons run, there were 22 original songs and choreographed musical numbers for “Bombshell” presented. While not all of them made the final cut on televison, all 22 will make it to the stage.
*The event is expected to feature cast members from “Smash” reprising their performances, including the drama’s original Marilyn Monroe, Megan Hilty.
*Emmy award-winning “Smash” choreographer is on board to bring back and finalize the choreography seen on the show, while “Smash” creator Theresa Rebeck is the playwright. Marc Shaiman wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics with Scott Wittman. “Bombshell” is produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/smash-marilyn-monroe-musical-bombshell-comes-broadway-one-052754820.html
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At least the show has some sort of outline based on the liner notes in the "complete cast recording." Would LOVE to see "Let's Be Bad" live! If they're including choreography and such, this ain't a regular concert that I thought; it originally sounded like JUST the songs and some story/dialogue, ala "Hit List" at 54 Below. With Zadan/Meron producing, this is gonna be full-out!! (Or at least to some extent. 
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Updated On: 12/29/14 at 05:27 PM
#29Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 3:30pm
Does this mean Hilty will be doing her much-touted nude scene?
I'm reserving my ticket now.
Starship
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/12
#30Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:08pmSecondhand White Baby Grand will be gorgeous live!
#31Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:09pmI've only seen 3/4 of Season 1 on DVD. When was there a nude scene?!
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#32Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:18pm
I believe it's on Season Two, Episode Eleven.
SPOILERS
During a performance of BOMBSHELL during the "Our Little Secret" number with JFK, he accidentally removes Ivy's slip along with her dress, exposing Ivy's naked body. Next thing you know, the audience thinks it was something added in during previews and Eileen and Tom ask Ivy if she's willing to keep that in the show.
#33Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:20pmOof. Talk about a wardrobe malfunction. I hope Ivy said no- it doesn't add anything to the story in my humble opinion...
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#34Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:24pm
It ended up giving the show some publicity and word-of-mouth and was all over the "message boards" that was drawing in tons of ticket sales. But they asked her and at the end of the episode you find out whether she says "yes" or "no."
#35Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 4:24pm
That was the plot point- the scene was Marilyn dropping her dress before JFK in a calculated seduction she hates herself for. It was supposed to be with lingerie underneath, but the unexpected nudity made Marilyn all the more enticing and vulnerable at once.
It enhances the scene but it wasn't in her contract. So they let Ivy decide for herself to bare it all or just wear lingerie as written.
#36Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 9:47pmUgggggh I wish I was able to go to this! If there was ever a reason to take a road trip to NYC in the summer.
#37Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/30/14 at 10:08pmThey will add the dancing in? I thought Megan Hilty said in interviews that she can't dance. Will be interesting to see her do 20th Century Fox and Public Relations....
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#39Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 12/31/14 at 12:56amJacobs, don't give anyone ideas. McPhee would ruin this concert.
#40Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/13/15 at 12:48pm
Oh no, they moved the concert to June 8...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-Actors-Funds-BOMBSHELL-Benefit-Concert-Moved-to-68-20150113
Making it the week I'm supposed to be out of town instead of two days after I am meant to be back... hmm...
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#41Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/13/15 at 12:49pmI want to go to there.
#42Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/13/15 at 9:57pmI am very excited for it still. I wonder if where I'm interning can do like a company-wide trip bc that's the only way I'll probably get tickets...Lol.
#43Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/13/15 at 10:24pm
In this article Katharine McPhee says her, Megan, Anjelica, and Debra will all be involved.
"It's so, cool. I'm going to be there -- me and Megan -- everyone -- Debra, Anjelica,"
Article
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#45Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/13/15 at 10:39pm
What if Anjelica played her Mother!
McPhee can be the random "Starlet" who sung Smash in the one version.
#46Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/14/15 at 1:04amI'm very excited that Katharine McPhee will be included in the concert. I think she is a wonderful performer with a fantastic voice and like it or not, just as much apart of SMASH as Hilty. And while I don't deny that Megan is obviously better suited for the part of Marilyn, it's just a concert, not a full production. They're a few numbers in BOMBSHELL in which I actually prefer McPhee's vocals (20th Century Fox Mambo, Don't Forget Me, etc).
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#47Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:41am
I'm very excited! I was hoping it would just be Megan Hilty playing Marilyn Monroe, but I understand why not...the way Bombshell is structured (at least according to the show/soundtrack), it's one big, powerhouse song and dance number after another which could be very taxing. I hope that Megan Hilty keeps all of her songs---she had the best (National Pastime, Let's Be Bad, Dig Deep, They Just Keep Moving the Line).
I imagine "Don't Forget Me" and "Let Me Be Your Star" will be duets.
I'm curious as to who Messing and Huston will play. I'm very excited, and I hope that it's filmed!
#48Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:59amI suspect that based on the outline of the show presented in the cast recording, Huston will likely be playing the mother, and perhaps Debra Messing will be narrator, filling the same position Andy Mientus took in the Hit List concert (the fictitious book writer/narrator).
#49Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 1/16/15 at 12:03pm
"I'm very excited, and I hope that it's filmed!"
At the Hit List concert, there was some reference to everyone being able to film it since we have as much right to record it as they did to perform it, so I'm guessing they can get away with some one-off concerts, especially for a benefit, but if they went further than that, they might have some legal issues with NBC.
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