SMASH To Close June 22, 2025 — Page 2

It's always sad to see creatives out of the job.

That said, Stro needs to take a break for awhile. First NYNY and now SMASH. Yikes.



... Unless she finally brings Crazy For You back.

I thought this would make it through the summer at the very least- its advance must be as dire as its word of mouth, and it must have more shallow pockets than those behind Boop and RWHC.

Please move Christmas chenoweths show here and include a theatre renaming, or da poop theatre

I actually thought the show was cute, but to me the singing overall paled in comparison to what we heard in the TV show. I also hated the way the Broadway show chopped the songs up and didn’t stage them properly. There weren’t enough dancers, and most of the costumes looked cheap. Lastly, the plotline with the Bella Coppola character made no sense. It gets built up in Act I and then evaporates when she conveniently declares, “oh I don’t want the part.” What a waste of time!

I think they should have (and perhaps still should) stage Bombshell. If the problem is that it’s too much for one actress to sing the songs eight times a week, they could easily solve that problem by having two Marilyns alternating nights (and in that way, honor the original premise of the show).

Again, I actually liked a lot of what they did — but I think overall it was a missed opportunity.

Updated On: 6/10/25 at 09:36 PM

SeymourInBrooklyn said: "Can someone explain to a noob like myself why producers/composers said it wasn't possible to do 'Bombshell'?"

The vocal demand of the role of Marilyn would be insane. The songs for Bombshell in Smash were written to capture moments but if you actually line them all up back to back to back it's it would be an inhuman feat for one actress to sing the role of Marilyn. It would need to be severely cut down and then people would complain they cut songs. I don't know if their was a solution that could have won either way except maybe taken more care to infuse more of the backstage drama of the series into the musical and not make as many changes to the characters to appease people.

I am a fan of both the TV show and the musical mainly because I have kinda of put a wall up between them that they are similar but not the same. To much of the loyal TV show fanbase can't/won't get over the changes to the characters and story that they love. They just didn't make enough changes from the workshop to Broadway. Hey... but at least she didn't kick it in the middle of opening night anymore, right?

I liked it and had a good time. Hurder would have been nominated too if we had a weaker season. I will try and revisit it again before the 22nd if I can.

Melissa25 said: "I liked it and had a good time. Hurder would have been nominated too if we had a weaker season. I will try and revisit it again before the 22nd if I can."

Here's to a weaker, worse 2025-26 season everyone!!

I knew I posted something in the previews thread months ago, & Google found it:

inception

#119 SMASH Previews
Posted: 3/13/25 at 9:19am
What's next for the Imperial?



But I was beaten by a day by:

BorisTomashevsky

#91SMASH Previews
Posted: 3/12/25 at 7:03pm
So what’s next for the Imperial?

SeymourInBrooklyn said: "Can someone explain to a noob like myself why producers/composers said it wasn't possible to do 'Bombshell'?"

We'll never know their specific, beat-by-beat reasoning, but sometimes people are too close to a property to be able to look at it objectively. Or it would have taken too much retro-fitting to make those songs work in the context of a musical about Marilyn. (SMASH would have benefited from more retro-fitting and more new songs too, or at least new lyrics!)

I'm sure they were also afraid it would come across seeming like a parody of a Marilyn musical.

Could outside perspectives have made it work? Possibly, but we'll never know...

The best outcome might have been a TITANIQUE-style show of SMASH or BOMBSHELL.

Updated On: 6/11/25 at 12:21 AM

quizking101 said: "Looks like they have a “Dads & Grads” Sale for their last two weeks of shows (some blackouts). I looked at the promo and the prices look like an “EVERYTHING MUST GO” sale. If you went to the box office, you could get a decent pair of orchestra seats for roughly $100 apiece, maybe less


IF my kids bought me these tickets for Father’s Day I would write them out of the will.
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Cats would be perfect

Turning a profit at the Circle in the Square would be impossible. Just because it looks like its venue at the Shed does not mean it would work there, for the 100th time.


Perhaps Smash would have stayed open if they just allowed Bella Coppola to sing Let Me Be Your Star with just a piano on the Tony Awards…oh wait.

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Turning a profit at the Circle in the Square would be impossible. Just because it looks like its venue at the Shed does not mean it would work there, for the 100th time.


Perhaps Smash would have stayed open if they just allowed Bella Coppola to sing Let Me Be Your Star with just a piano on the Tony Awards…oh wait."

CATS wasnt' at the shed though. It was at PPAC