"Smash" Officially Cancelled After 2 Seasons — Page 4

Kad really?...none of the staged musical numbers excited you at all?...some of them got this broadwaybabywannabe wanting more Broadway...i'm trying to work out a trip to NYC this fall cause I want to be there more than ever now...my appetite has been wetted....:)

Feels like we should be reveling in the great things the show did at this point and put aside what bugged us so much:

Who else remembers what it felt like the first time you saw--

LET ME BE YOUR STAR
MR. AND MRS. SMITH
THEY JUST KEEP MOVING THE LINE

Great songwriting, great theater and great television.

i hope in the last episode, they rename the Lily Hayes Theatre the Kyle Theatre.

If Kat & Megs want to take a camcorder and film it guerrilla style, that'd be kewl beanz.

Broadwaybabywannabe is the Jim Colyer of TV

I feel your pain wannabe!
#SMASHwillbewithGod

>> "most of you snark-ers are just plain mean and nasty...finally they try and give this country some class tv and you all act as if they gave us an STD instead"
Well... that's exactly what they did (but that metaphor is kinda creepy).

>> "...for those of who really love Broadway like myself any window into the making of a Broadway show is better than no show at all IMHO..."
A different perspective, from "those who really love Broadway", is that we aren't willing to settle for just "any window" - especially one that's so poorly created.

Since this show is a complete fiction (and a poorly constructed fiction at that), why would you think you're getting a "window into the making of a Broadway show"?

If that's what you really want, I think you'd enjoy the movie, Every Little Step. Broadway or Bust was an enjoyable PBS series about high school kids' journeys to get to the Great White Way. If you want a "real" sense of drama, go to YouTube and watch Entrances, Exits, and Everything in Between with Patti LuPone (<--- copy/paste to get the link).

There isn't a whole lot of good Broadway-themed TV, but what's there is SOOOO much better than SMASH. The fact that there isn't a lot of Broadway-themed TV makes SMASH even more insulting to watch.

...and what a HUGE waste of some really talented Broadway actors. I wanted "the best" for them. Parading them around with cameo, walk-on roles in a poorly constructed show like SMASH makes them seem like zoo animals - their only purpose is to satisfy viewers' needs to "gawk".

Updated On: 5/12/13 at 09:16 AM

Glamour would be a better word.

>> "Glamour would be a better word."

"Glamour"? ...like in the vampire world of True Blood?

The production numbers were the best thing about SMASH, but they weren't enough to sustain the show. The most enjoyable numbers (especially in season 2) featured Megan Hilty's solos only.

...and WHAT was that choreography in the featured number from Hit List last night? Was it good choreography that was executed poorly, or just all-around "poor"?

"but let's call it what it is -- a nighttime soap with the backdrop of b'way."

And not even a good soap. Every soap opera has to have a villain. Everyone was too nice in this show.

In the scene where Ivy is waiting to perform, Anjelica Huston comes back to her and says: "You're not a Norma Jean, you're a Marilyn."

Ivy should have said, "What the fck does that mean?" Instead she just beams with pride like being a tormented actress who was exploited for her sexuality was a good thing.

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Drama, I happen to find all of those things you mentioned to be extremely glamorous. If they weren't then we couldn't consider Chicago, Nine, Evita or even Marilyn herself to be glamourous.

Gothampc, Marilyn is the epitome of glamour, any woman would and should feel proud to be compared to her.

This is all IMO, obviously.

I'll come to that party!

I'm down for the Crisco party, too. As long as the password to get isn't "Smash is classy."

Also, this

"Glamour"? ...like in the vampire world of True Blood?

made me laugh. I think Smash could have used some vampires!

Updated On: 5/12/13 at 02:37 PM