Hit List - Broadway/Off Broadway

Ok, we now know producers screwed up SMASH (Bombshell) with way too many changes to Season One storyline. I wonder with the right people behind it, could "Hit List" (Season Two) become a Broadway or Off-Broadway show. I thought the general opinion of the music was favorable and like most shows the book would need some work. It might be hard to generate enthusiasm for this after SMASH being a flop but maybe a year or two down the road it might be idea worth exploring.

I could see this maybe happening at New York City Center but as a full-scale Broadway production- I don't see them trying this anytime soon

Sigh... can we stop trying to make fetch (SMASH) happen?

It’s pretty safe to assume anything attached to SMASH will be tough to find investors to have it produced. As the producers of the Broadway incarnation of SMASH sadly learned, the fan base they assumed would turn it into a huge hit just didn’t exist. The music featured in HIT LIST was indeed good (heck, so was the music in SMASH and BOMBSHELL) but there’s more to a theater piece than just great songs and great choreography. If the stuff in between ain’t good, you got nuthin’, as SMASH sadly found out.

"As the producers of the Broadway incarnation of SMASH sadly learned, the fan base they assumed would turn it into a huge hit just didn’t exist. The music featured in HIT LIST was indeed good (heck, so was the music in SMASH and BOMBSHELL) but there’s more to a theater piece than just great songs and great choreography. If the stuff in between ain’t good, you got nuthin’, as SMASH sadly found out. "

The producers of the Broadway show SMASH basically threw away much of the TV series storyline that fan base wanted to see. The fan base did not want to see additional person in Ivy-Karen rivalry. I don't think the fan base wanted the Broadway show to be a "farce". Sure, the stuff in between matters but great songs and choreography is a nice thing to have in a new musical.

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Updated On: 6/24/25 at 01:46 PM

I remember listening to the bootleg of the HIT LIST show they did at 54 Below, a while after the big Bombshell concert. They had a libretto and a full score, and I remember thinking "this could honestly do okay in licensing, even if it's not Broadway tier."