Bombshell Benefit Concert — Page 9

Heres a curious question:

Let's say, hypothetically, Bombshell is brought to Broadway with its current score (I know, I know, it's not likely, blah, blah, blah, it's hypothetical)... Would the score be eligible in the Best Score category? I think it's a fantastic.

But I know that from the beginning, they had made it clear that they had plans to possibly bring the show to theaters. Or at least that's what I read during the 1st season of the show. And the music was written for the stage within the TV show, I'm just curious if it would be petitioned or just considered not eligible.

They didn't write a book for the concert because it wasn't necessary, but if they did an actual complete production, it's quite obvious that a book would be written.

I would think that since it was written for and paid for by NBC for a television series (even though it's a program about a Broadway musical), that it would not be eligible for original score. I'm sure the producers would petition and who knows, maybe they'd get their way…stranger things have happened.

Why would it have to be "Bombshell" in order to get these songs on Broadway? How about a show about a misguided attempt to create a TV show about creating a Broadway show, opening up the possibility of not only including other songs from Smash, but allowing Andy Meintus to rise from the dead? And include subplots about cast members going on to do other things, or attempting to do other things, with a Harvey Weinstein type villain thrown into the mix. Then everybody comes together for the big concert at the end.

On second thought, that may be a little too far fetched. So, never mind.

If Bombshell did come to Broadway the keys would need to be lowered or some things would have to be head voiced to do it eight times a week. The score while of the best ones written fairly recently is amazing it would be crazy difficult for whoever plays Marilyn (hopefully Megan if it comes) to sing night after night.

Ms. Ann Harada.

She was fantastic!

Megan and this song blow my mind. Seriously out of the park on so many levels.

I suspect that, regardless of the show's eventual narrative in the TV version, the musical, if it ever gets staged, will feature Marilyn as a dual role.

This is both because this has become it's sort of famous "hook," and because of numbers like "Let Me Be Your Star," which not only focus lyrically on the duality of Marilyn and Norma Jean, but lose a lot of their punch when sung as solos and not duets.

As for the score being eligible, they keep moving the line. The scores of Beauty & the Beast and Aladdin were both nominated although their scores were written for movies. Mary Poppins was not. For State Fair they ruled that interpolated songs that had been previously heard on Broadway were not eligible, so you could only vote for songs from the two movies and the interpolated trunk songs (and despite that silliness it actually got a nomination for best score). Jukebox musical scores are not eligible. So I would think that the score of Bombshell, having never been heard on Broadway, would be eligible but who knows? But since there is no Bombshell musical it's all theoretical.

For what it's worth, Mary Poppins was ELIGIBLE for score. It just wasn't nominated (the far superior scores for Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Curtains, and Legally Blonde were).

DON'T CUT EVEN ONE NOTE OF THIS SCORE!