'Smash' Producer Provides Exciting Update on Broadway Musical Ahead of TV Show's 10th Anniversary
04.02.2022 - 03:04
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It’s been almost two years since a Broadway musical based on the TV series Smash was announced and we finally have an update on the show’s progress!
Bob Greenblatt, the former chairman of NBC who is producing the musical, is opening up about what fans can expect from the upcoming Broadway show.
Tony winner Bob Martin and Tony nominee Rick Elice, who brought us shows like The Drowsy Chaperone, The Prom, and Peter and the Starcatcher, wrote the book for the musical.
Click inside for an update on the Smash musical…
Greenblatt told Variety that a workshop of the musical is planned for summer 2022 and a Broadway opening will hopefully happen in 2023. The show will either be titled Smash, A New Musical or Smash: The Musical.
He said, “They’ve delivered a draft that I’m very excited about, and we’re now in the process of putting together our first workshop, which is, you know, the earliest step in a musical where you just get a cast together, read the script and perform the score just for the producers. That will most likely happen at some point this summer. So it’s the first step, but things are moving along really nicely.”
Greenblatt says that the workshop will feature “actors who are friends of ours, that will do us a favor. It’s really not meant to be the cast for the show yet. So we’re a few steps away from getting to that stage.”
The Broadway musical will follow Debra Messing and Christian Borle‘s characters Julia and Tom as they create Bombshell, but the storyline of the stage show will differ from the TV show. The show will only include the original music from Smash, written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. None of the pop covers performed in the TV show will be included in the stage show.
“It’s most of the songs