I don’t know if any of y’all have heard, but NBC has a new show starting tonight.
I for one am totally geeked about this – looks great. Apparently Debra Messing is really good (phew, I found Will and Grace annoying as fuck), and who doesn’t love Angelica Huston? (Well, other than Jack Nicholson.)
And rumor has it we find out who gets the part by the end of the second episode, so that doesn’t drag on forever. Whaddya think, will the other one stick around as understudy or costar or something?
Megan Hilty has been cast in the revival of *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes *in May, so I will watch–I was really hoping for The Chenoweth as Lorelei Lee, but I will give this gal the benefit of a doubt.
I hope this is better than Glee. I really, *really *tried to like Glee, but I failed miserably.
NBC really seems to be going all in on this show. During the Super Bowl there was a commercial for it every 17 seconds or so. It was annoying, but alright because godDAMN is Katherine McPhee a purty lady.
I’ve watched the pilot already. It was available for free download on iTunes for the past couple of weeks and it was also free in my cable’s OnDemand section.
It was good, but not amazing. Definitely shows promise. The musical numbers were well done by McPhee and Hilty. I didn’t feel really pulled in to the story that much, though, because it felt like everyone was acting. But maybe that’s just how Broadway-types are in real life.
I’ll keep tuning in for now, if for no other reason than because I think Katherine McPhee is a goddess.
I’ll stick with this one for a while even though I thought that the plots were awfully pedestrian. One couple is divorcing. One couple wants to adopt. One couple’s parents are troublesome. The director wants to sleep with the ingenue. The director and the writer don’t get along. Seen it all a million times. But the actors are attractive and interesting for the most part and the musical numbers were fun. With “Glee” running out of steam, this may be just the thing to fill that need for singin’ and dancin’ on weekly TV.
I like Kathryn McPhee. I’m rooting for her to get the job.
I think this is going to be pretty good – I liked that they were setting up a fair amount of story for everyone, even if those stories aren’t profoundly original.
I really liked the songs, but then, I’m easy that way. And I’m guessing that Katherine McPhee will end up playing Norma Jean while Megan Hilty plays Marilyn, which allows them to keep both actresses and extend the series plot a little more.
I don’t know about the show. I’m not sure how it works for more than a season or so, otherwise, it’s going too quickly at the start and too slowly at the end. But if this week’s show was an indicator, I’ll probably keep watching it.
I liked it, will keep watching. Of course, any resemblance between this and actual Broadway is purely coincidental, I guess for plot reasons. How did Little Miss Midwest Waitress get a B’way musical audition, for one thing? How did she even get an Equity card? Those are nearly *impossible *to come by, and you can’t get *near *an actual audition without one (this delays careers for years, sometimes forever).
But some things must be fudged or the plot would stall, I guess.
Not bowled over by Megan Hilty, and I had *so *been looking forward to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Saw it last week- for some reason my DirecTV DVR recorded it from On Demand, which was a bit of a surprise. Anyway, I have to say I’m very impressed by Katherine McPhee. I remember her from Idol a few years ago and thought she had a pretty voice, but I think she has some acting chops as well. I also think she lost some weight since then- whether for this role or otherwise, I don’t know, but it really shows that she and Megan Hilty (who I had never heard of before) are two completely different types.
I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt, if for no other reason than to see more of [swoon] Raza Jaffrey [/swoon]. Love Katharine McPhee, totally hate Megan Hilty (How much red lipstick did it take to paint that huge mouth?).
Hope I can stick with it longer than I could with Glee.
How could she do all that? I’ll tell you how. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon her. It’s the lives of all these people who’ve worked with her. She’s got to go on, and she’s got to give and give and give. They’ve got to like her. Got to. Do you understand? She can’t fall down. She can’t because her future’s in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on her.
She’s going out a youngster but she’s got to come back a star!
I am no spring chicken - let’s just say I remember seeing the Beatles live on Ed Sullivan.
I was a fan of Marilyn and really liked the recent film, “My Week With Marilyn”
I love Broadway musicals - worked in the theater and lived in NYC.
I have the Ethel Merman disco album in my CD collection.
Yes, I am Gay - why do you ask?
Theoretically, I should be the target audience for “Smash”
Still, this show just seemed so dated. I felt like I had turned into my parents and was watching Matlock or Murder She Wrote - the Musical! Did anyone under the age of 50 watch this show through to the end?
They yanked out every single cliche in the history of Broadway. I have to admit, that was no easy feat to do in a one hour show, but they did it. I think it is safe to say I now know how every single sub-plot is going to progress and end.
Not that there is anything inherently wrong with Broadway formula writing, but even old comfortable shoes eventually wear thin. This was a missed opportunity to do something new and different with that formula.
Yeah, I will probably watch a few more episodes and still enjoy a good “let’s put on a show!” theme, but after the first episode, it already feels like I have seen the entire first season.
