"Smash" Officially Cancelled After 2 Seasons- Page 4

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:54pm

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....:)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:24pm

Jetts -- not sure if you were serious or not, but unless you are a Neilson(sp?) family, it doesn't matter at all how many tvs you turn on.


Other thought Wannabe: the proof that most of us wanted it to be good clearly comes through that we kept watching it with naive hope it would get better.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:50pm

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.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:55pm

A) no one died here. Except Kyle.
B) the show didn't have a few missteps. It was a continuous fall down a flight of stairs. Once in a while it will get to its feet. And get a scene or a moment. But then, it would fall down.

Great theater? We know next to nothing about the actual musicals.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:59pm

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

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 8:17pm

Could they shoot season 3 via the non equity route?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 8:47pm

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

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:25pm

At least now with the show cancelled Joshua Safran can move on to brighter things.

Like re-making ENDLESS LOVE.

I'm not kidding.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:54pm

Broadwaybabywannabe is the Jim Colyer of TV

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 12:18am

No way! I wanna have a Crisco Oil party with bwbabywbe.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 12:18am

I feel your pain wannabe!
#SMASHwillbewithGod

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 6:48am

Wynbish..."Broadwaybabywannabe is the Jim Colyer of TV"...huh?...actually i'm the MICKEY SQUIRES of gay porn...lol...but that hasn't stopped me from being a Broadwaybabywannabe too...lol

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 9:16am

>> "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

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 9:30am

I agree with much of what John Adams has to say.


And they brought CLASS to tv? Drug use, lying, cheating spouses, promiscuity, low morals, using power to get sex, illegally gotten funds.....that all sounds real classy.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 9:36am

Glamour would be a better word.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 9:44am

None of those things are glamourous, either. I'm not saying they don't make for great conflict and many shows have been highly successful using them, but let's call it what it is -- a nighttime soap with the backdrop of b'way.

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 9:49am

>> "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"?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 10:28am

It was weird and only choreographed as a TV number. It would not work at all on stage.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 10:41am

"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.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 10:47am

was SMASH good tv?...maybe not!...but it did fill a void for those of us out here in the so-called hinterlands to the extent that even if that window into how and why Broadway produces shows was foggy and blurred to many of you, it was at least a window...

btw I LOVE the PBS mini series BROADWAY OR BUST...finally saw the finale part 3 this past Friday...wow what talent there...Broadway will have a whole new generation on it's way soon...

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 11:00am

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.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 11:05am

"actually i'm the MICKEY SQUIRES of gay porn"

Ergo me + babywannabe + bottle of Crisco oil

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 11:24am

I'll come to that party!

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 11:29am

Y'all are sick and wrong! (what a waste o' good chickin fryin' erl...)
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Updated On: 5/12/13 at 11:29 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/12/13 at 2:37pm

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