SMASH To Close June 22, 2025- Page 6

[Matt Rogers]

SMASH To Close June 22, 2025#125

Posted: 6/2/26 at 7:24pm

Voter said: "I, for one,can't wait to watch Youtube clips of Smash being done at some theater in Utah! Usually a bad musicalis the most unbearable form of art, but Smash was so hilariously misguided it came around again. The greatest bad thing I've ever seen, and I'm here for its camp future."

And yet, some people liked it. 

[Dolly80]

SMASH To Close June 22, 2025#126

Posted: 6/2/26 at 7:35pm

Why would anyone want to do this terrible show?

[Zeppie2022]

SMASH To Close June 22, 2025#127

Posted: 6/2/26 at 11:32pm

Matt Rogers said: "Voter said: "I, for one,can't wait to watch Youtube clips of Smash being done at some theater in Utah! Usually a bad musicalis the most unbearable form of art, but Smash was so hilariously misguided it came around again. The greatest bad thing I've ever seen, and I'm here for its camp future."

And yet, some people liked it."

Some people like any show no matter how bad. I think the general consensus was the show was a mess but there were some excellent performances by people like Robyn Hurder.

 

[darquegk]

SMASH To Close June 22, 2025#128

Posted: 6/3/26 at 10:54am

The bar of how bad or failed a show has to be to not get into licensing is INSANELY high, because "make something back on the back end in licensing, even a slow trickle," is about 50% of why a show even opens on Broadway these days. Broadway is a commercial for licensing houses as much as it is its own entity.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

SMASH To Close June 22, 2025#129

Posted: 6/3/26 at 11:31am

Zeppie2022 said: "Matt Rogers said: "Voter said: "I, for one,can't wait to watch Youtube clips of Smash being done at some theater in Utah! Usually a bad musicalis the most unbearable form of art, but Smash was so hilariously misguided it came around again. The greatest bad thing I've ever seen, and I'm here for its camp future."

And yet, some people liked it."

Some people like any show no matter how bad. I think the general consensus was the show was a mess but there were some excellent performances by people like Robyn Hurder.

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Probably the biggest issue was simply that they did nothing to make the songs relevant to the plot (either as commentary or as a vehicle for associated emotions), so it was really just a second-rate backstage farce with random songs sprinkled throughout. If they can do anything at all to address that in the licensed version, it would at least be a step in the right direction.