Yet Another Unnecessary Thread for SMASH

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:40pm

This Wednesday, April 10, SMASH has received another unnecessary thread. Don't know whether this is a "permanent" trend.
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1058595&dt=1

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:43pm

I'm thinking BWW's on NBC's payroll.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:46pm

I'll take a Smash thread over a "Why did _________ close?" or "Why did _________ win a Tony over _________?" thread any day.

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:46pm

That's because those are harder for you to wreak havoc in kind sir. :-P

Which reminds me...

Why did BOMBSHELL close?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:48pm

That's a trick question. Bombshell hasn't opened yet!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:50pm

Smash confuses me because in their Broadway world Bernadette Peters never existed. Who played Dot? Who played Mabel? Who replaced Buckley as the Witch? It all hurts my head.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:50pm

Why did the Morning Farm Report win an Emmy over Smash?

[tazber]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:51pm

Because watching pigs sh1t is more entertaining that Smash.

Updated On: 4/10/13 at 12:51 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:53pm

Smash confuses me because in their Broadway world Bernadette Peters never existed. Who played Dot? Who played Mabel? Who replaced Buckley as the Witch? It all hurts my head.

The ReNt poster that's constantly over Jesse L Martin's head must really vex yoU!

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:54pm

I don't even watch SMASH and I'M caught up the drama of "will-the-last-episodes-air-and-if-so-WHEN-do they-air?" The scheduling seems to have as many plot twists as the show itself.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:54pm

Oh that drove me nuts too! And the Bernadette Peters revival of Gypsy was still running last season (without Peters) per a scene in Time Square!

Though since their other musical is still playing The Shubert that means Memphis never existed, so I'm okay with that one.

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:56pm

I do enjoy the NYTW Rent Poster hanging over JLM's head all the time. Although, Phyllis. Surely you know that he wasn't in that production of Rent.

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 12:58pm

Also, I believe that Bernadette Peters does exist in the world of Smash. It just isn't Ivy's mom - though they do look a lot alike. It's a Sarah Jessica Parker/Horse from 2 Broke Girls thing. It takes a little suspension of disbelief.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:01pm

Does Meryl Streep exist in the world of The Iron Lady?

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:02pm

Not anymore.

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:13pm

My best friend tunes in to SMASH and this is his take on the latest scheduling move: "And it’s deliberate! NBC really really REALLY wants to make sure they can get rid of this show on the basis that no one’s watching."

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:18pm

Does American Idol exist? How about 9 TO 5? And let's not even talk about WICKED with Hilty!

But they basically already got rid of it. They don't need to justify cancelling it by moving it around, it is precisely because it's already dead that they can afford to play with it so easily.

Updated On: 4/10/13 at 01:18 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:21pm

This all getting too meta for me to handle.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:25pm

I do like the idea of a world where Katharine McPhee doesn't exist.

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:29pm

Does Ruthie Ann Miles as Imelda Marcos exist? Does Gloria Reuben as Condoleeza Rice exist? Did Tovah Feldshuh REALLY do GYPSY?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:30pm

I like to think Derek directed Wicked.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:35pm

Did Tovah Feldshuh REALLY do GYPSY?

Remember when she was definitely going to win the Tony for IRENA'S VOW? Maybe in the world of SMASH she did.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:38pm

"I do like the idea of a world where Katharine McPhee doesn't exist."

I don't know which I'd rather have: dead-eyes former American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee, or dead-eyes, probably going to win a Tony because she's a "star" Karen Cartwright.

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:38pm

In SMASH she's probably doing The Pirate Queen.

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/10/13 at 1:39pm

I like to think of a world where Andrew Lloyd Webber's non-biblical shows don't exist.