Officially Licensed Bombshell Merch available...

The only thing I request... a Hit List album.

Any pics?

As much as I agree, at least it will live on in the concert form. It would take longer for a book to be developed, whether or not they stick with the synopsis in the album booklet.

As long as they include "Don't Forget Me", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Let Me Be Your Star", "Cut, Print, Moving On", "Smash", "Public Relations", "On Lexington and 52nd Street", and "Second Hand White Baby Grand" I'm fine with them cutting some of the score.

Include "Let's Be Bad"!

This is what I expect they would keep… I personally like that we get to see more of Marilyn's men than just Joe.

ACT I
Let Me Be Your Star - Norma Jeane Mortenson
At Your Feet - Gladys, Young Norma Jeane & Tourists
The 20th Century Fox Mambo - Marilyn Monroe & 20th Century Fox Staff
The National Pastime - Marilyn & New York Yankees
I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl - Marilyn & Soldiers
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Marilyn & Joe
On Lexington & 52nd Street - Joe
Cut, Print...Moving On - Marilyn & Studio Staff

ACT II
Public Relations - Marilyn & the Press
Second Hand White Baby Grand - Marilyn
They Just Keep Moving the Line - Marilyn
Let's Be Bad - Marilyn & the Cast of Some Like It Hot
Hang the Moon - Gladys & Marilyn
Second Hand, White Baby Grand (Reprise) - Marilyn
Mr & Mrs Smith (Reprise) - Joe
Don't Forget Me - Marilyn

Updated On: 7/30/13 at 07:22 PM

I think there is a huge market for Smash merch. (Smerch?)

-"Don't talk to me I'm in TECH!" desk signs
- Kyle T-shirts with tread marks on them
-Eileen Rand Martini Slingshots
- Leo Oatmeal

At 22 songs, BOMBSHELL is not a hugely overloaded show music-wise. It's simply a question of, how much does Marilyn really tax her voice singing it? There are lots of songs, especially when she steps out of Norma Jean to be "Marilyn," that aren't nearly as vocally taxing and have more character work with the breathy Betty Boop voice and such. So the question is, is Norma Jean/Marilyn harder than other monolithic roles like Evita, Joseph's Narrator, Mama Rose, or less dominant but still vocally taxing roles like Elphaba?

A few other questions would need to be answered by either bookwriter or casting director: does it matter that the male characters are mostly ciphers against the more three-dimensional Marilyn (as SMASH indicated the characters' vision of the show to be)? Or is a more nuanced and developed take being used?

Is BOMBSHELL an enormous huge-cast, huge-spectacle show or a smaller piece?

Who is the male lead? Or, at least, the arbitrary one? Are any of the roles doubled, given their relatively small amount of "stage time" in Marilyn's life? (I had assumed when the BOMBSHELL album came out that the roles of Zaneck and Arthur Miller were doubled, but it quickly emerged that Christian Borle/Tom Levitt played multiple roles on the concept album.)

There's a show "treatment outline" included with the concept album. The treatment outline differs in multiple ways from the representation of the show onscreen, leading many to believe that there are at least IDEAS for how the show would play as a full musical.

Would love some hit list merchandise!

It obviously doesn't have a typical Broadway sound, which I love. I would think it would be succesful if it transferred, just because of it's sound

Updated On: 7/31/13 at 02:58 PM

I just don't think Julia will have any interest in working on that book anymore. She is over it.

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