NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
Posted: 1/2/12 at 8:33pm
What do you think?
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#2SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 8:41pmsomeone tell me when in the history of Broadway have producers ever cast someone with no credits as a lead in a musical?
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#3SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 8:48pmBetty Buckley in 1776. First day in town, she auditioned for the leading lady and was cast.
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#4SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 8:58pmUpdated On: 2/20/18 at 08:58 PM
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#5SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:02pmNo broadway credits at least would be Merman in girl crazy, though she was a very popular vaudevillian before this.
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#6SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:04pmUpdated On: 2/20/18 at 09:04 PM
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#7SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:08pmKinda sorta Mary Martin, she only had two singing gigs one where no one saw her, another bit radio advertisment but no broadway credits and went into Leave it to Me.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#8SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:14pm
The entire cast of RENT...
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:14pm
Laura Osnes and Max Whats-his-face in Grease.
Most of the cast of 13.
And must I say: IT'S A TV SHOW!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#10SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:15pm
"Reeve Carney in Spider-Man. He and his band were trying to make a name for themselves on the Sunset Strip before being cast."
Except Reeve Carney has film credits, and it was his working with Julie Taymor on her crappy The Tempest that led to his being cast in Spider-Man.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:17pm
AVenue Q, Title of SHow, In the Heights
Josh Strickland in Tarzan
...ok....enough .
Updated On: 1/2/12 at 09:17 PM
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#12SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 9:22pm
Gotta call you on heights taboo olivio had credits,burns, lopez, mirandez, Gonzalez etc. Ensemble for title of show guys too. Blickenstaff in countless ensemble understudy roles.
Updated On: 1/2/12 at 09:22 PM
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#13SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 10:26pmNEW SUBJECT: They both look incredible.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#14SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 10:39pm
Hilty is so friggin' talented but she looks awkward and her arms are too skinny, looks photoshoped.
I hope all of the attention doesn't go to Mc Phee who seems the more sympathetic of the two. For those who saw the first episode, is that so?
#15SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 10:45pm
Girl's got some shoulders on her ...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#16SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/2/12 at 11:22pmUh, what's with Megan? I think they could've picked something a little more... natural looking... for her.
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SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#17SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 12:34ambest12, she looks like Marin Mazzie in that pic!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 12:46am
Thanks best12, that pic really captures her beauty.
#19SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 8:46amJust watched the pilot and they're both fantastic. The ending of the first episode is a musical clip-hanger, with the two of them waiting their hearts out on a very, VERY good Shaiman/Wittman song that has the two of them belting their lungs out. Loved it!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 10:00pm
hey Random...
Was referring to the lead role on 'Heights' as mentioned in the original question. can you stop calling me now?
:P
CurtainPullDowner..
"Hilty is so friggin' talented but she looks awkward"
Is that a zucchini up your dress? Or are you just awkward to see me..
Updated On: 1/3/12 at 10:00 PM
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#21SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 10:14pmI think this show has enormous potential. Not only was I interested in the main storyline, the competition between McPhee and Hilty's characters for the role, but the other plotlines are also very intriguing, and they meld together well. I initially thought that it would be ridiculous to even think that Hilty would not get the role, but McPhee is extremely talented and I foresee a legitimate competition arising. I do wonder, though, if the creators plan on reducing or eliminating either Hilty or McPhee once Marilyn is cast. Perhaps they have other ideas for how to use the one who does not get cast?
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
PattyO'Furniture
Featured Actor Joined: 8/12/04
#22SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 10:15pmKatharine looks to me a little bit like Eden Espinosa dressed up as Marilyn.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#23SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 10:23pm@PalJoey Any other thoughts on the Pilot episode? I cannot wait to see it and am very interested to hear what it may be like.
#24SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/3/12 at 10:24pmi think if one get's the lead then the other will most likely be the "Alternate." I doubt they will let one of them go.
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#25SMASH First Look at Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty as Marilyn
Posted: 1/4/12 at 12:15am
I agree with what bwayfan said about the cast is really true: They make you interested in ALL the storylines. Theresa Rebeck and Michael Meyer have done it right. And Joshua Bergasse's choreography is exciting.
Obviously the story is making McPhee's character the innocent-waif-with-talent-who-should-really-get-the-job but Hilty is so good as Marilyn--she gets the whole amazing baseball number to herself!--that you keep thinking, "Wow, she might not be as likable but she would be terrific." And that final number of the first episode doesn't leave either one of them the clear winner. That's what makes it such a cliffhanger!
But the rest of the cast--and their storylines--make the show seem like it has winner potential. Anjelica Huston is simultaneously sympathetic and larger-than-life as the female half of the divorcing producer couple determined to show her ex--and all of Broadway!--that she can make a hit without him, a Fran-who needs-no-Barry.
In just this first episode, Debra Messing as one half of the songwriting team, created a fully fleshed out, funny, likable and totally believable straight woman of the theater. I feel like I already know her--and I already like her--and I already think of her as extremely talented. And Christian Borle as her gay writing partner who can't remember the name of one of the chorus boys he's slept with...yeah, I feel like I know him too--and Borle is giving a pitch-perfect performance.
The others are good too--espeically Jack Davenport as the straight British director who doesn't like when Christian Borle fawns over the divas, Jamie Cepero who play Borle's cute assistant, and smolderingly sexy Raza Jaffray who plays McPhee's boyfriend. I feel like if he were to coach me in how to play Marilyn, I'd get a callback too.
And don't discount Wesley Taylor (from Addams Family and Tales of the City) as the cute chorus boy whose name Christian Borle can't remember. I think we're going to remember him.
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