The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical concerning the lifetime of Marilyn Monroe that fashioned the guts of the TV present “Smash” will make the leap to an precise Broadway stage subsequent season.
Producers stated Wednesday that “Smash” is slated for Broadway within the 2024-25 season, welcome news to most of the present’s followers and the Broadway neighborhood who embraced its have a look at the internal workings of their trade.
“’Smash’ is near and dear to my heart, and it was always my hope that a musical inspired by the show would eventually come to the stage,” stated lead producer Steven Spielberg in a press release.
The new e book for “Smash” can be co-written Tony-nominated Rick Elice, who penned “Jersey Boys,” and Tony-winner Bob Martin, who gained for “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
No casting for the Broadway model was revealed. The collection on NBC lasted two seasons beginning in 2012 and starred Megan Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Katharine McPhee, Leslie Odom Jr., Krysta Rodriguez, Christian Borle and Debra Messing. The songs included ““History is Made at Night,” “Let Me Be Your Star” and “Hang the Moon.”
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, who wrote most of the songs for the TV present and whose credit embrace the Tony-winning rating for the 2007 musical “Hairspray,” will proceed with the stage adaptation, as will authentic choreographer Joshua Bergasse, who has gone on to choreograph “On The Town” and “Gigi.”
In the collection — created by playwright Theresa Rebeck, who left after the primary season — viewers watched the lengthy technique of casting, composing, mounting and rehearsing a Broadway-bound musical, “Bombshell.”
In the second season, a gritty, low-tech off-Broadway present known as “Hit List” competed with “Bombshell” for the Tony Award. Since “Hit List” songs included writing credit for Drew Gasparini, Joe Iconis, Andrew McMahon, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Lucie Silvas — along with Shaiman and Wittman — plainly the “Hit List” a part of the fictional story won’t make it to “Smash” on Broadway.
The new musical can be helmed by five-time Tony-winning director Susan Stroman. Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron be a part of Spielberg as lead producers.
“Ever because the present resulted in 2012, not every week goes by that somebody doesn’t ask us when will they see Smash as a musical. We assume we’ve provide you with one thing the die-hard collection followers will love however that may also be thrilling for individuals who by no means noticed an episode of the present,” Meron stated in a press release.
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