NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 76
NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#1875Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 9:26am
"It seems many of you have forgotten the Emily Skinner/Linda Eder episode here."
Where Emily sang as a sick Linda mouthed the words during Jekyll & Hyde?
Would Ivy be Linda?
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#1876Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 9:48amWee Thomas 2 - If you end a show with a character dying do they really think the audience is going to break out in wild applause immediately. The key would have been if they showed the reaction of audience to the cast members and "stars" during the curtain call.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1878Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 9:58am
First the John Rich song, now this:
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/mcclurkin.html
DeNada
Broadway Star Joined: 7/7/07
#1880Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 10:09am
Surely the ring is going to end up on Ivy's dressing room table or similar? Karen sees it, fallout, breakup with Dev, but she goes on as Marilyn and potentially blows everyone away so she gets some kind of bittersweet triumph?
That's the most obvious thing to happen dramatically.
NOB88
Stand-by Joined: 10/21/06
#1881Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 10:53am
Jaime Cepero, Star of NBC's 'Smash,' Talks 'Bombshell' and Bombshells
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#1882Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 10:53amI am not a fan of that poster art.
#1883Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:16amGood thing it isn't for a real show.
#1884Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:25amI hope Christian Borle is playing Marilyn in the season finale!
#1885Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:26am
Um...did any of you bitches know that the gospel song sung in that apparently gay-friendly church was written by that disgusting, odious homophobe Donnie McClurkin? Cause this bitch sure as SH*T didn't.
Really, Smash? I mean...
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1886Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:41amSeriously? Marc has some 'splainin to do.
#1887Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:50amI mean...I thought that scene was 17 different kinds of ridiculous even though 'I love church.' But knowing this actually makes it kind of disgusting. ESPECIALLY when you have a gay black man who's just a little too holier than thou singing it.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#1888Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:50am
The show's soundtrack debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 copies.
http://www.billboard.com/#/news/carrie-underwood-debuts-atop-billboard-200-1007001352.story?utm_source=most_recent
#1889Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:04pmWhy do I get the feeling that Marilyn is going to end up being someone completely random? My money is on either 1) Jessica (for whatever reason) or 2) Julia (pulling a "Georgia" from Curtains where the lyricist knows the whole show and has to step in at the last minute).
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#1890Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:23pm
"...My money is on either 1) Jessica (for whatever reason)..."
Savannah does have a great voice.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1891Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:36pm
Must die, must die,
That boyfriend must die,
For the sake of Queer Nation,
That boyfriend must die.
The McGlurkin thing is BEYOND unfortunate.
#1892Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:40pm
Does NO ONE do musical due diligence on this show.
The episode was written by David Marshall Grant!!!
How? HOW????
#1893Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:55pm
"They're not applauding! Why aren't they applauding?!?!"
Seriously, he had no idea? NOBODY connected with the production thought it was a bad ending? The show is destined to run 2 weeks and get nominated for Best Musical and nothing else.
And the Dev plot line is giving me serious anxiety attacks.
#1894Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 1:52pmIs there a gay-friendly gospel songwriter they should have used instead?
#1895Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 1:59pm
I don't know. I don't know gospel music well enough. But I do know people in the Lavender Light Gospel Choir...and I'm sure they could have pointed someone in the right direction.
Or, Shaiman could have written a new piece. Or we could have gone really meta and had them sing 'I Know Where I Been.'
Please don't tell me you think it's fine that this show payed royalties to Donnie McClurkin.
*ETA: I just was on the Lavender Light website and noticed one of the tracks on one of their CDs is by McClurkin. Maybe there's no where safe to turn! Or maybe it was written before he turned 'Ex-Gay'. Either way, I'm surrounded by disappointment!
Updated On: 5/9/12 at 01:59 PM
#1896Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:15pm
That's what I was wondering. I'm not sure there is an alternative.
There are individual churches where it's safe to be gay, but I don't know that there was a substitute songwriter they could have chosen.
They probably should have chosen a traditional gospel song.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1897Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:16pmOr they could have just not had a tent revival scene.
#1898Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:17pmThat's what I was just about to post, Phyllis. The scene was absurd to begin with. But couldn't they have worked a little harder to find someone who is so horribly anti-gay? Just a little?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1899Smash - Series Discussion
Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:23pmCome on, Shaiman's forte is composing songs that sound like a gazillion others. He could have knocked a gospel number off in a second.
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