NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 46
NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1125Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 8:18amSo we are back to the "addiction is FUNNY" era? The girl's dreams are being shattered before our very eyes and you all think it is FUNNY? Wait until they start using the retarded son for comic relief, now THAT will be funny.
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#1126Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 8:34am
Ivy should have been fired from Heaven on Earth for the performance BEFORE the one where she cracks up and falls. Standing on the stairs purposely looking bored when the other girls are smiling ear to ear? Telegraphing how much she hates what she's doing? She'd be out of the show following THAT performance.
And by the way, what's wrong with calling the show Marilyn?
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#1127Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 9:33am
Patash: That's exactly what I was thinking.
The link to the uninterrupted version of "The Higher You Get" isn't working, can you repost? Thanks!
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#1128Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 9:41amI thought Ivy walking through the city in her costume was hysterical and I kept thinking how she would never have been allowed out the door dressed like that. I also had a bit of a giggle when Tom mentioned people wanting their money back. Really? Because a chorus girl fell? I recall thinking that people who had never seen the show before might not have even know anything was wrong. It was Norbert's breaking character and yelling that did it
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#1129Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 9:43am
I noticed the link wasn't working as well. Here it is, though:
The Higher You Get...
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#1130Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:01am
"Ivy should have been fired from Heaven on Earth for the performance BEFORE the one where she cracks up and falls. Standing on the stairs purposely looking bored when the other girls are smiling ear to ear? Telegraphing how much she hates what she's doing? She'd be out of the show following THAT performance.
It doesn't work that way. A producer has to show just cause, and looking bored once, isn't just cause. She would have been given a good talking to, and a letter would have been written by the Production Stage Manager to her, detailing why her behavior is detrimental to the production and telling her that her job is at risk, with copies going to the General Manager and Equity. If the behavior continues...THEN the producers would have just cause. The General Manager would probably also write a follow up letter to her...expressing their displeasure with her behavior.
If people were fired every time they looked bored or phoned in a performance then long running Broadway shows would be firing people every night.
Being drugged and out of it, ruining a number, walking out of the theatre in costume, and taking the costume home, are just cause...and I would expect her to be told to come to her dressing room, gather her belongings, leave and never darken the stage door again.
"Just a Guy. Your feelings are touching. I am gladdened by the thought that you will one day wind up 6 feet under as we all do." - MrRoxy ------
"I do not suggest you walk out the door onto a New York street with your vulnerable child part exposed and not protected..." - Jason Bennett
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1131Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:09am
The last time I was in Times Square I saw a chorine from wicked in her Ozdust drag. She looked fabulous! She was singing Fill Me Up, Buttercup with some guy on his karaoke machine. I asked her about the costume and she said they let them walk out of the theatre with it all the time, free publicity, I guess.
Then she threw up on my shoe.
PEACE.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1132Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:22amI think Drunk Ivy should've thrown down with The Naked Cowboy while Karen auto-tuned "Life is a Highway". Ellis could've been hiding in the crowd recording it on his cellphone and turned it into a MADD public service announcement for community access TV.
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#1133Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:33amCan't believe no one has yet mentioned the Reidel cameo. Brilliant idea from Eileen (Houston) to keep her director in line. Of course their plot was overheard by sneaky Ellis.
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#1134Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:34amI hope the next four episodes are a flashback to exactly what Ellis did to secure Uma for Marilyn. In real time.
#1135Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:46amEvery week I want to see Hilty hit by a bus Final Destination style more and more.
#1136Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 10:51amAnd they're really setting Hilty up to be the star of BLACK SWAN: THE MUSICAL, aren't they?
#1137Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 11:47am
I still don't understand how people are expecting even the tiniest bit of verisimilitude from this show. This does not take place on Broadway. This takes place on "Broadway," a very special place that Theresa Rebek likes to think about while she's having a glass of Lillet in a back corner of Bar Centrale, watching Stockard Channing schmooze Justin Vivian Bond, hoping, wishing, praying that someone would finally let her be their star. It's a marvelous place where producers with severe bangs take Tony-winning directors for dinner at the art therapy room of a children's mental hospital (foreshadowing where Cousin Debbie's son is going to end up in about an episode and a half? Methinks so!). It's a happy hamlet where Bernadette's Gypsy never closes, Norbert Leo Butz gets to play the same character in every musical written in the last 10 years and there are enough gay Republicans to actually fill the first floor of some nameless university club that features a stuffed bear (nothing says Republican like killed and stuff wild-life, right Governor Palin?).
Don't you want to live and play and work and sing in this world? I know I do!
#1138Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:05pm^Oh my! LOL
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#1139Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:06pmSeeing Norbert was a nice surprise! Love him!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1140Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:21pmRobbie, if there were a "Sleep No More"-like production of that special vision of "Broadway," I have no idea how many times I would go see it. 12?
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#1141Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:26pmIn "Broadway No More", the audience would all wear little Ellis masks. Because, in the end, aren't we all a little Ellis?
#1142Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:28pmIvy is about two more prescriptions away from being a SLEEP NO MORE character, as it is.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1143Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:37pm
Karen, true to being from the outer galaxy of Iowa, never even heard of motion capture, let alone actually knew what she'd be in for when she booked the commercial!
I do have a question about Karen (and Dev, by extentsion). How long is she supposed to have been in New York? Everything is written to make it seem like she's a bumpkin who just wandered off the bus, but then I wonder how long she's supposed to have been dating Dev? Did they know each other before she moved there? Was that established and then changed (like how Tom already found out that chorus boy friend of Ivy's was gay at her apartment but then found out again like it was the first time next week)? She's lived there long enough to have found a live in boyfriend, but she knows absolutely nothing about the career path she's chosen for herself.
But I do like this show. I'd never try to convince its detractors to like it, but it's enjoyable, escapist melodrama, which is pretty much all I need from a nighttime soap.
As for all the "I thought Ellis was straight" maybe he's just simply bi? Or maybe he'll just do whatever he needs to do to get ahead, and there's no coming out drama to his story at all? I think it would be refreshing if his (apparent) ambisexuality wasn't the hot issue at all.
#1144Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:47pm
ELLIS CASABLANCA IS NOT A FAG!
Sorry...had to get that off my chest. Aren't you really just one scene of Karen doing her bust exercises to take us all the way down to the Valley of the Dolls?
I say...go down. GO DOWN!!!
#1145Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:51pm
As for all the "I thought Ellis was straight" maybe he's just simply bi? Or maybe he'll just do whatever he needs to do to get ahead, and there's no coming out drama to his story at all? I think it would be refreshing if his (apparent) ambisexuality wasn't the hot issue at all.
I mentioned awhile back in this thread that Ellis will do whatever he needs to do to get ahead - be it man, woman, or beast. It's a hot issue to me only because it adds a new level of smarminess to his character
And they're really setting Hilty up to be the star of BLACK SWAN: THE MUSICAL, aren't they?
Does that mean we're in for a Karen/Ivy sex dream scene?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Updated On: 4/3/12 at 12:51 PM
#1146Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 12:56pmNext season the two will star in BOUND! (The Musical)
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1147Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:07pm
I would LOVE to see that become a musical, as long as they keep Susie Bright as an adviser.
The top floor of "Broadway No More" would be the "Heaven on Earth" set.
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beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#1148Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 3:45pm
This was an improvement over last week. I'm glad that Briand'Arcy James got to show how talented of actor he truly is. Plus the moment where he was playing the song on the piano was MUCH BETTER than when he did the Guitar Hero thing. It was nice to see Karen and Ivy be nice to each other for a little bit. I liked their song together. Norbert Leo Butz's appearance was also great.
Updated On: 4/3/12 at 03:45 PM
#1149Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 4/3/12 at 3:47pmI wouldn't exactly call that "getting along". Trust me, just like with a Ryan Murphy show, there will never be any reference to them being kind to each other and next week Ivy will kill Karens dog.
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