{"id":6383,"date":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2015\/06\/23\/smash-musical-bombshell-set-for-live-stage-show\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"smash-musical-bombshell-set-for-live-stage-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/smash-musical-bombshell-set-for-live-stage-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Musical Bombshell Set for Live Stage Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tUNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Stage Productions is developing the Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical <em>Bombshell<\/em>, born from the NBC series <em>Smash<\/em>, as a live theater show.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier this month, the Actors Fund hosted a benefit that featured the music of <em>Bombshell. <\/em>Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who served as executive producers of the series <em>Smash <\/em>and also produced the Actors Fund <em>Bombshell<\/em> concert, will be lead producers on the new stage show. Steven Spielberg, who was executive producer on <em>Smash <\/em>as well, will be involved in the stage production of <em>Bombshell<\/em>. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, also executive producers of the series, will continue on <em>Bombshell<\/em>, with Shaiman serving as composer and co-lyricist and Wittman as co-lyricist.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;There is a still a lot of love for <em>Smash<\/em> and a rabid fan base out there, and we&rsquo;re thrilled to be able to keep the dream alive as we work towards bringing <em>Bombshell<\/em> to theater audiences,&rdquo; said Robert Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment.&nbsp;&ldquo;<em>Smash<\/em> was ambitious because every episode was a complicated musical for television and we also built the foundation of the musical-within-the-musical about Marilyn&rsquo;s endlessly fascinating and tumultuous life.&nbsp;Over the course of two seasons an entire &lsquo;Bombshell&rsquo; score was written to service <em>Smash<\/em> story lines, and now that show will have a chance to stand on its own.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We are so thrilled that <em>Smash<\/em> isn&rsquo;t over and that <em>Bombshell<\/em> gets to live on,&rdquo; said Zadan. &ldquo;The Emmy-nominated songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, including the iconic &lsquo;Let Me Be Your Star,&rsquo; are every bit the caliber of their Tony- and Grammy-winning Broadway work.&nbsp;The Actors Fund benefit reinforced how alive this material is on stage and how much the audience wants to see the Marilyn Monroe musical in its entirety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAdded Meron: &ldquo;As life imitates art, Joshua Bergasse, our brilliant Emmy-winning choreographer from <em>Smash<\/em>, actually made his Broadway debut this season as a choreographer and was nominated for a Tony Award. Now he will get the chance to reimagine his exhilarating <em>Bombshell<\/em> dances for the theater.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Whether watching the <em>Smash<\/em> cast at the benefit at the Minskoff Theatre or hearing teenagers across the world on YouTube, it&rsquo;s been thrilling for us to hear our songs so embraced and performed so phenomenally,&rdquo; said Shaiman and Wittman. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t wait to see what happens next.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Stage Productions is developing the Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical Bombshell, born from the NBC series Smash, as a live theater show. Earlier this month, the Actors Fund hosted a benefit that featured the music of Bombshell. Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who served as executive producers of the series Smash and also produced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Smash Musical Bombshell Set for Live Stage Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Smash Musical Bombshell Set for Live Stage Show. UNIVERSAL CITY, June 23: Universal Stage Productions is developing the Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical Bombshell, born from the NBC series Smash, as a live theater show.. 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