NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 58

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:00am

Hilty sounded amazing in the last song. Huston looked stunning in the episode no wonder People Magazine listed her as beautiful at age 60.

http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20360857_20360861,00.html#21144149

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:07am

"I wish Leo and Brian D! James would both go missing, actually."

I agree, Phyllis.

I was a little thrown off by the way Rebecca was behaving in the restaurant. Somehow it didn't seem consistent with eeverything else about her. oh well

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:07am

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANYTHING IS ANYMORE!!!!"

Season Two, Leo gets shipped off to boarding school, right?
Bonus clip: Raza Jaffrey's (Dev) first time around the Bollywood block, as the lead in the West End's BOMBAY DREAMS!

[JP2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:24am

I'm absolutely obsessed with that Bollywood number. The song itself wont leave my head.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:28am

I love that Uma looks terrified in this picture.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:29am

I actually really enjoyed tonight's episode. And to the poster who mentioned why Karen didn't have any personal belonging left in the rehearsal room...I was thinking the exact same thing.

She's always walking out of there with that bag of hers, why didn't she have to go back to get it this time?

I'm curious to see who will be playing Marilyn by the end of the season...Ivy? Karen?

[sweeneytodd2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:53am

WHY IS FRANK ALWAYS CHOPPING SALAD?!

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 1:25am

"I wish Leo and Brian D! James would both go missing, actually."

I enjoy d'Arcy James, but I don't enjoy Leo.

[Miranda3]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 1:31am

sweeneytodd2: Funny that you should be inquiring about CHOPPING, Mr. Todd!!

[Owen22]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 2:36am

"Laura Osnes would be SO much better than Kat McPhee, cause Laura is one of our own, Laura is a big ol' friggin' Broadway star and only a big ol' friggin Broadway star should play a potential big ol' friggin' Broadway star in a TV show about a potential big ol' Broadway star, cause we don't see nothin' good about McPhee, no sir, she has no screen presence, she has no singing talent, she can't act LIKE LAURA OSNES can NOPE NOPE NOPE, I mean its not like Laura Osnes got HER start on at TV reality singing show, nope she is so much better than that!!!!"

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 02:36 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 2:36am

The Bollywood number was ridiculous, but I loved it. If this show is going to be a trashy soap (and that's the thing it's been best at), I want fantasy production numbers involving the full cast EVERY episode. Actually, that's one thing that some bloggers have pointed out, but I agree with--the show is advertised as a musical, but the people making it seem to want to ground the songs in "reality" (which seems to mean people breaking out in song at bowling alleys or any other reason to do a dull cover). I wish it would just go full out and not feel it needed to make up some drug side effect for a reason to sing to the mirror, etc.

Was the Bollywood number by Shaiman/Wittman? (I know pastiche is their strong point--or arguably their only point--but I wondered if they got an outside composer in for it like they did for Karen's Britney-Spears-as-Marilyn number)

Anyway I enjoyed today's episode. Used Grand Piano or whatever was a beautiful song, but it does bring me back to the problem with Bombshell as an actual musical. I assume the Marilyn at the actor's studio stuff would happen midway through the show or so--so really, stop the show with a song that doesn't advance the plot and only slightly develops character, and give it to a "phantom Marilyn"? Oh well.

Did Christian dancer boy give in and have sex? They seemed to be on a bed, but were fully clothed unlike that slut played by Anjelica.

[Wicked Fanatic]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 3:13am

Was the Bollywood number by Shaiman/Wittman? (I know pastiche is their strong point--or arguably their only point--but I wondered if they got an outside composer in for it like they did for Karen's Britney-Spears-as-Marilyn number)

Yes it was. Shaiman and Wittman wrote two original songs for this episode which is the only episode of the season in which they didn't just write one.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 3:23am

Thanks--I loved it so kudos to them.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:14am

Rubbernecking

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:44am

"Laura Osnes would be SO much better than Kat McPhee, cause Laura is one of our own, Laura is a big ol' friggin' Broadway star and only a big ol' friggin Broadway star should play a potential big ol' friggin' Broadway star in a TV show about a potential big ol' Broadway star, cause we don't see nothin' good about McPhee, no sir, she has no screen presence, she has no singing talent, she can't act LIKE LAURA OSNES can NOPE NOPE NOPE, I mean its not like Laura Osnes got HER start on at TV reality singing show, nope she is so much better than that!!!!"

I'm sorry, but I think that Kat McPhee has no screen presence and is a bad actress. She plays her role like she's sleepwalking through it. She acts like she doesn't care about anything that happens to her. Her singing is okay, but we're supposed to believe that it's better than or at least as good as Megan Hilty's and IMO it isn't.

Her American Idol roots have nothing to do with it. The only time I found Kat McPhee interesting on screen was when she sang "Happy Birthday" to Jack Davenport, in the Marilyn "hallucination" scenes, and in that Bollywood number last night.

Maybe Laura Osnes wouldn't be better, but it's hard to imagine how she could be worse.

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 09:44 AM

[bryan2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:57am

Ok everyone calm down it is as real to theater as greys anatomy is to doctors...entertainment....I really like the show with all its flaws it is entertaining and I really have loved all the original music last nights White Baby Grand -wow-She hit that out of the park it was spectacular...I just wish they would not make her a sleeze and to have her with creepy I am everywhere ellis really bugged me...is it me or is he always everywhere...If he was cute it mighht help but he is freakishly strange looking and he cant act which really bugs me....ah now I am going on...keep singing and Kat McPhee is playing the part as written..she is supposed to be be naive....I really like her voice and she is beautiful

[willep]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:58am

I would NEVER leave a rehearsal just off a text like that. That bugged me. I know that they keep saying she is new and "green" but that just seemed way out of character for someone like Karen who is trying so hard to make it. Not to mention that, like others have pointed out, she must have just left her things behind.

[JP2]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 10:44am

I purchased the Bollywood number on iTunes and it just lists Shaiman under composers, no Whitman.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 10:46am

Dev could very well be the most irritating, passive-aggressive boyfriend in television history. Dump him and have Karen move in with some lively roommates.

Now that sulky teenage son is "happy", can we maybe reduce his character to, oh, one brief appearance a season? Or replace him a la Sarah Chalke with the kid who played his friend, who at least had some charisma?

I'm sorry, Brian D'Arcy James is just not very good in this.

Hilty sang the hell out of that nice ballad.

After a really strong episode last week, the script here once again veered all over the place in terms of tone.

Oh, and what happened to the "She can't BREATHE!" moment they showed in the teaser?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 10:56am

Well, I think they've set up with no real subtly what is likely in the cards - Rebecca seduces Derek and Ivy retaliates with something involving putting peanuts in Rebecca's smoothie and thus getting rid of Uma Thurman (contracted for only 5 episodes) and setting the stage for her (or perhaps in some twist Karen) going on as Marilyn at the 11th hour. I would expect them to drag all that out until the final episode.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:29am

What sticks in my craw is the fact that Raza Jaffrey is a charming and H-O-T actor who has been asked to be nothing but a nasty little pill. What was it that Frank Rich said about Charlotte D'Amboise in Carrie? 'Hideously misused'? That term applies here as well.

BUT...the Bollywood number was terrific.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:42am

Megan and Christian should be the only people allowed to sing on this show. That is all. Second Hand White Baby Grand was gorgeous.

[Eos]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:54am

So, I have a question. Why all the Katharine McPhee hate? Not the character, but the actor. I think she's great, but many seem to despise her. Just wondering why, that's all.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:13pm

Oh, and what happened to the "She can't BREATHE!" moment they showed in the teaser?

Well, they've already shown that they have a habit of showing stuff from episodes down the line in the teaser. So, that line could be next week or the week after.

Well, I think they've set up with no real subtly what is likely in the cards - Rebecca seduces Derek and Ivy retaliates with something involving putting peanuts in Rebecca's smoothie and thus getting rid of Uma Thurman

The peanut allergy was mentioned way too many times for it not to come into play at some point and they made too big a deal about the smoothies and Ellis making them for that also not to be important later. I'm not 100% sure that Ivy will be the one to do it though. Remember, Ellis said he would do anything for her. I think she may drop a hint to Ellis about it and he'll actually add the peanuts into the smoothie.


So, I have a question. Why all the Katharine McPhee hate? Not the character, but the actor. I think she's great, but many seem to despise her. Just wondering why, that's all.

I can only speak for myself but I don't "hate" Katharine McPhee as a person - I don't know her. I'm more or less ambivilent in that regard. I don't care for Karen and I'm not sure if it's the writing that I don't like or Katharine's performance. Probably a mixture of both.

And I was a little sad when I saw Derek and Rebecca kissing. As flawed as they may be I liked Derek and Ivy as a couple. Maybe I should offer Rebecca some Five Guys fries

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 12:13 PM

Posted: 4/24/12 at 12:17pm

Again, not to be the Smash cheerleader but when we first met "Dev" there was nothing but love for him. He's had a nice character to play, inspiring a range of emotions.