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#25SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 9:17amtotally agree, kdogg36, this is an outrage, and the producers should apologize to the community immediately! for better or worse, SMASH has an enormous LGBT following (and to think otherwise is naive), and yes, if they had featured songs from a white supremacist, that would have been equally outrageous.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#26SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 9:29am
I am in no way supporting the song choice.
My head/desk comment was for Eric's silly post.
Being gay is subversive enough, but we certainly don't need to support haters.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#28SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 3:53pmIf the posters on this board are a representative sample, queens HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE this show.
#29SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 7:00pm
in fact, it wouldn't surprise me, if in his self-righteousness, he released it to the public domain.
It would, however, surprise all the rest of us.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#30SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 7:59pmJoe, I don't think you're doing what they would call a close reading of the SMASH threads.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#31SMASH FAIL
Posted: 5/12/12 at 9:15pm
The whole church angle was so f**king stupid and it sounds like something that came out of network horse trading with the creatives.
"We have a gay couple! And they kiss and have sex!"
"Okay, but we'll lose the Bible belt...better have them have bad sex and not enjoy it at all."
"So...okay, well that relationship is over. Now we have a gay couple and they kiss and are interracial. Edgy!"
"I'm a little queasy about this but okay...they can't have sex, though. Never. And you guys have got to toss some kind of bone to the conservatives. We'll get letters!"
"Sigh...we'll make the other guy really religious and that will take care of the sex thing. Enough? Can we write this now?"
"No. There are people on the fence about the whole gay thing that runs through this show and we can't do anything to alienate them. This is about ratings, guys."
"All right! We'll have a scene where everyone comes together--Not like that...as people!--and we'll include a really earnest gospel number for the black gay to sing. Interns! Go look for one! Now! We only have two hours to write this!"
"Have Karen sing it, too. People will be offended by a gay in a church handling praise to Jesus by himself. And Karen is so wholesome! And Katherine McPhee is America's sweetheart, after all."
"Yes. She is. Its one of the reasons we love to write for her oh so very much."
"Glad to hear it! Did you see Obama supports gay marriage? Isn't that wonderful?"
"Yeah, yeah..."
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