By the way, for anyone who is interested, the title song of the show was released as a single on iTunes. It's actually a very beautiful version. Not much, but better than nothing.
Well for me I also thought Megan Hilty's character was a bit of an unlikable bitch early on...it is only when it became clear that she was FAR more talented than McPhee and had some outstanding performances that I started to come around. Most obviously, it must have been devastating for McPhee to be so severely upstaged by Hilty when she sung "Don't Forget Me". This is surely the kind of move that would destroy off-stage relationships and egos."
BuddyStarr said: "but can she sing 8 shows a week? Her voice seemed prepared for the studio but I wonder if she is up to the demands of a full weeks of shows?"
She's been singing for many years and has a past in the theater. While I'm sure she's going to have to be careful to make sure her voice stays in top shape, I'm sure she'll be fine.
JennH said: "Now that it's out in the open, I really don't know how I feel about this. She can 1000% sing this, there's no question about that. But she can't act.I enjoyed her in Smash mostly because that"can't really act, but essence of green, sweet naivete" works for that kind of character. Jenna has seen some ugly ****, and I wonder about her ability to capture that.
To say she can’t act at all is quite the exaggeration. Whi
AEA AGMA SM said: "While I wouldn't say "perfectly fine" I would agree that I never found her to be cringe-worthy bad. She went from serviceable to wooden, sometimes bland, but never what I would consider bad. I'll also give her the caveat that the writing on that show certainly didn't help anyone look very good."
ebontoyan said: "Can she act??! I cringed when she was not singing/dancing in Smash. Never heard/seen her in her “new” TV show"
Do most people really find her acting to be THAT bad?? I watched the entire series of SMASH and while she is certainly no Meryl Streep, I thought she was perfectly fine. Their are plenty of worse actresses I can think of.
"Waitress" makes the most sense, especially if she was already supposed to take over the role. Though "Chicago" does celebrity casting literally all the time so that's also totally possible.
Katharine released a brand new jazz album today. The vocals are pretty great. It includes covers of classics like "Night and Day", "You Make Me Feel So Young" & "Everything Must Change". Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but being as how she starred in "Smash", it doesn't seem totally irrelevant. There's also a cover of "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face". Just figured I'd post in case anyone is interest
