warning: if the idea of people singing and dancing their life dramas out on stage makes you cringe, go on and skip this post entirely. make yourself a cup of tea or surf on over to another website. this post is dead to you.
Smash- NBC's adult version of Glee- is an hour-long weekly drama about creating an original musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe (meh). i can watch the show in 10 minutes because i fast forward through all the dialogue that consists of endless discussions of boring grown-up problems (divorce, affairs, parental approval, evil assistants, financing a broadway show). but the good news: after you carve away the talking parts, you're left with a collection of more-than-decent original songs written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (double t's in both his names!), who co-wrote the music for Hairspray. even if Smash ends up as another tv casualty, i suspect these new songs will start turning up in heavy rotation in musical theater auditions everywhere. here are the two most memorable ones so far: "Mr. + Mrs. Smith" and "Let Me Be Your Star".
Smash- NBC's adult version of Glee- is an hour-long weekly drama about creating an original musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe (meh). i can watch the show in 10 minutes because i fast forward through all the dialogue that consists of endless discussions of boring grown-up problems (divorce, affairs, parental approval, evil assistants, financing a broadway show). but the good news: after you carve away the talking parts, you're left with a collection of more-than-decent original songs written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (double t's in both his names!), who co-wrote the music for Hairspray. even if Smash ends up as another tv casualty, i suspect these new songs will start turning up in heavy rotation in musical theater auditions everywhere. here are the two most memorable ones so far: "Mr. + Mrs. Smith" and "Let Me Be Your Star".
No comments:
Post a Comment