SMASH To Close June 22, 2025 — Page 3

A bad show I had fun at. A lot more fun than at a lot of other musicals I saw this season.


When was Stroman’s last hit? I’ve never thought she was a good director and I’m mystified that she still gets work

The idea of doing a diegetic show is interesting in concept, but boy did the book scenes drag

As someone noted above, they needed more dancers.

It seemed the less you were invested in the TV show the more likely you were to like it

They really needed to figure out better storyline first Ivy’s troubles (and the consequential cupcake debacle didn’t help)

I am an extremely big SMASH tv show fan, couldn’t even tell you why because I know the TV show is messy but it’s my fav mess. I literally watch it once a year lol and this Bway show took so many wrong turns. I saw it last week after winning the lotto and the mezz was extremely extremely empty.

The songs that everyone wants to hear get interrupted constantly with scenes, the songs that do get fully sung, like Moving the Line, are fantastic! Bombshell has amazing songs, let the people sing these songs!

A third Marilyn was extremely unnecessary, they make it seem like Chloe is going to be the equivalent of that Sharpay wannabe in HSM3, but turns out, oh, she doesn’t even really want the part. I found all the social media stuff really cringy, personally.

Ivy becoming a diva/method acting after reading a book didn’t really land for me. Would rather her be struggling to play Marilyn and then method acts to try to understand her or something. Rather than her being amazing at the start, make her struggle or something.

Super sad we waited a decade to hear these songs and the show just didn’t find its footing. The irony that Bombshell’s book was a mess and so is SMASH’s…

Katie Webber, (Insta @katiewebbernyc) ensemblist who left The Great Gatsby to do Smash, says on her story "our show is struggling but it wasn't doing that bad. They just gave up on it. Sorry, somebody had to say it."

pinktonyclub said: "Katie Webber,(Insta@katiewebbernyc) ensemblist who left The Great Gatsby to do Smash, says on her story "our show is struggling but it wasn't doing that bad. They just gave up on it. Sorry, somebody had to say it.""


I don’t know how a show selling 68% of the theater and heavily comping nearly the entire run could be seen as not doing “that bad.” I love the cast and hope to go to closing but this show had a pretty rapid decline in the last few weeks.

Probably not the smartest thing to post so publicly, and wouldn’t be surprised if she’s asked to delete it shortly. However, she has spoken openly on her Instagram over the years about her struggles with the business - emotionally and financially with bouncing from job to job and still being an ensemble member - so this isn’t a surprising reaction from her. She often says the quiet part out loud; others are just thinking it.

Losing your job suddenly sucks. But it’s also The Business and producers really don’t like when actors say things like “They gave up on us” in their Instagram stories.

Kad said: "I wish we would move on from treating every show closure as an unjust tragedy."

I also think people believe somehow that social media buzz about a show and talking about it translates into ticket sales and that's not how it works!

JSquared2 said: "pinktonyclub said: "Katie Webber,(Insta@katiewebbernyc) ensemblist who left The Great Gatsby to do Smash, says on her story "our show is struggling but it wasn't doing that bad. They just gave up on it. Sorry, somebody had to say it.""



Sort of a clueless statement from her, but...whatever? Hope she's looking forward to a LONG break in between jobs!"

Hopefully she can go back to GATSBY.

I must admit looking at the numbers I guess this closing seems obvious now but I/we/everyone was so focussed on 'Boop' I didn't even really think much that SMASH was on the chopping block this soon...is a bit of a shock.

MezzoDiva47 said: "

another show like lempicka or swept away where

Oh no! Swept Away was different. It was a very moving work of genius that decadent NY audiences just weren't prepared for.

The song choices could have been better, and the staging needed some rethinking, and the book could have used some tweaks. Maybe if they had thrown out the entire jukebox score, and come up with totally original songs...

But you know, totally not in the same category as all those other things that flopped.

Matinee cancelled today due to technical problems with set.

MemorableUserName said: "Matinee cancelled today due to technical problems with set."

this show has had no luck.

pinktonyclub said: "Katie Webber,(Insta@katiewebbernyc) ensemblist who left The Great Gatsby to do Smash, says on her story "our show is struggling but it wasn't doing that bad. They just gave up on it. Sorry, somebody had to say it.""

If you go to her Instagram stories right now, you can see her throwing her entire script binder into the trash…