Lots went down on tonight’s Smash Season 1, Episode 3: "Enter Mr. DiMaggio." Ivy (Megan Hilty) and Derek (Jack Davenport) heated up. Karen (Katharine McPhee) struggled to find her footing in the chorus. And Julia (Debra Messing)? She got into a bit of tro more

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Smash  had spent so much time on the casting for the role of Marilyn that I had expected a similar experience for the casting of the big romantic lead in “Enter Mr. DiMaggio.” Unfortunately, there was very little in the way of casting for the role of more

NBC exhausted its promotional creativity in order to maximize the reach of last week’s SMASH premiere, and those efforts were rewarded. To build on a debut audience of over 11.4 million viewers, the SMASH pilot was replayed on NBC Universal’s vast cable l more

Why are we rushing to the casting of ‘Marilyn’ in ‘Marilyn: the Musical’? Not saying that I wanted to draw out the process through the entire season, a la any of a zillion reality shows, but come o... http://www.starpulse.com/news/Roxanne_Tellier/2012/02/ more

If last week’s "Smash" was the overture—all loud and emotional and intoxicating—then last night’s episode, “Callback,” was the exposition. We met a lot of new characters, like Ivy’s scheming friend who gave his gal pal updates on Karen’s less-than-impress more

When I was in drama school, our teachers always said that just getting a callback was its own mark of success. Where there are callbacks, there is hope: The simple laws of probability dictate that eventually the producer’s first choice will drop out to do more

Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) is dreaming at the restaurant in which she wastes her life serving lemonade to the overpaid. She still doesn't know if she's going to be cast as Marilyn in the Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. In another part more