NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 76
NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Smash - Series Discussion #1875
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
Smash - Series Discussion #1876
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
Smash - Series Discussion #1878
Posted: 5/9/12 at 9:58am
First the John Rich song, now this:
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/mcclurkin.html
Broadway Star Joined: 7/7/07
Smash - Series Discussion #1880
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.
Smash - Series Discussion #1881
Posted: 5/9/12 at 10:53am
Jaime Cepero, Star of NBC's 'Smash,' Talks 'Bombshell' and Bombshells
Smash - Series Discussion #1882
Posted: 5/9/12 at 10:53amI am not a fan of that poster art.
Smash - Series Discussion #1883
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:16amGood thing it isn't for a real show.
Smash - Series Discussion #1884
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:25amI hope Christian Borle is playing Marilyn in the season finale!
Smash - Series Discussion #1885
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...
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
Smash - Series Discussion #1886
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:41amSeriously? Marc has some 'splainin to do.
Smash - Series Discussion #1887
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
Smash - Series Discussion #1888
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
Smash - Series Discussion #1889
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).
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Smash - Series Discussion #1890
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:23pm
"...My money is on either 1) Jessica (for whatever reason)..."
Savannah does have a great voice.
Smash - Series Discussion #1891
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.
Smash - Series Discussion #1892
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????
Smash - Series Discussion #1893
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.
Smash - Series Discussion #1894
Posted: 5/9/12 at 1:52pmIs there a gay-friendly gospel songwriter they should have used instead?
Smash - Series Discussion #1895
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
Smash - Series Discussion #1896
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.
Smash - Series Discussion #1897
Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:16pmOr they could have just not had a tent revival scene.
Smash - Series Discussion #1898
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
Smash - Series Discussion #1899
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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