Bombshell Benefit Concert- Page 9

[CoreyRyan3]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:16pm

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.

[DaveyG]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:25pm

According to the rules, the songs written for the television show would not be eligible since they were composed for another medium. Only new songs would be eligible and to qualify for best original score, 51% would have to be new. Love the score!

[CoreyRyan3]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:41pm

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.

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:44pm

I would love for Bombshell to come to the stage. But a book NEEDS to be written. 

[CoreyRyan3]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:50pm

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. 

[Showface]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:53pm

And we have to keep in mind that the score is KILLER and very difficult to perform with all of that choreography! I imagine a few songs would be cut or shortened, and a few songs added and rearranged here and there to give "Marilyn" a break.

And, her life has to fit into 2-3 hours too. And, it's more difficult to write a songs first, then a book.

And to give her a break, the "Marilyn" may need to not perform matinees.

(Here I am talking about it like it's real musical )

Updated On: 6/10/15 at 05:53 PM

[DaveyG]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:59pm

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. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 7:25pm

TV, concept album and starry concert. Not gonna get original score- but it wouldn't necessarily need it.

[Back Row]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 9:15pm

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.

 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 9:20pm

"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."

I sense the birth of a new format... THE BROADWAY, WEEKLY, SERIALIZED, EPISODIC SPECTACULAR!! 

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:33am

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. 

[E.Davis]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:55am

"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. "

^What? Some of this makes sense, but then some...What? 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 8:22am

Ms. Ann Harada.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 8:32am

Megan Hilty, Goddess.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 8:33am

She was fantastic!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 11:25am

"Megan Hilty, Goddess.
"

 absolute perfection!!! Hitly is a Goddess!!

[finebydesign]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:06pm

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

[mrgiovanni]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:36pm

CoreyRyan I was wondering the same thing! Would BOMBSHELL be eligible for Best Score, or even Best New Musical? How much of the score would have to be replaced or redone to qualify for the "new" title...I don't know all the technical requirements...

At the end of the day it was a fun show! If this is the end for the material it was a great ride while it lasted.

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 3:39pm

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.

[mrgiovanni]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 7:16pm

I liked the concept of one actress playing the "real" Marilyn and another the "public relations" Marilyn.

Makes me wonder how they would nominate for a Tony?

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 6/13/15 at 2:01am

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. 

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 6/13/15 at 8:24am

I am sorry, I am a little dense..and also a little confused about what you meant when you said Beauty and the Best and Aladdin could be nominated but not Mary Poppins. Did you mean the rules changed at that time (which to me sounds weird because it came between the other two shows, not before or after). Or were there lesser known songs, more new material, etc.? Or some actual actors/stars singing the songs in the film, as opposed to simply animated characters.. that affected the decision?

Just curious...

 

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/13/15 at 12:58pm

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).

[Starship]

Posted: 6/13/15 at 3:32pm

If this show came to Broadway I would rather see the score cut and re-modified so it wouldn't be so vocally demanding then see two actors split the role of Norma/Marilyn. Even though Hilty is in her mid-30's, I'd still love to see her play Marilyn.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/13/15 at 4:10pm

DON'T CUT EVEN ONE NOTE OF THIS SCORE!