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Bombshell Benefit Concert- Page 9
Bombshell Benefit Concert
CoreyRyan3
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/13
#200Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:16pm
Heres a curious question:
Let's say, hypothetically, Bombshell is brought to Broadway with its current score (I know, I know, it's not likely, blah, blah, blah, it's hypothetical)... Would the score be eligible in the Best Score category? I think it's a fantastic.
DaveyG
Leading Actor Joined: 8/11/05
#201Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:25pm
According to the rules, the songs written for the television show would not be eligible since they were composed for another medium. Only new songs would be eligible and to qualify for best original score, 51% would have to be new. Love the score!
CoreyRyan3
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/13
#202Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:41pm
But I know that from the beginning, they had made it clear that they had plans to possibly bring the show to theaters. Or at least that's what I read during the 1st season of the show. And the music was written for the stage within the TV show, I'm just curious if it would be petitioned or just considered not eligible.
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#203Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:44pm
I would love for Bombshell to come to the stage. But a book NEEDS to be written.
CoreyRyan3
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/13
#204Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:50pm
They didn't write a book for the concert because it wasn't necessary, but if they did an actual complete production, it's quite obvious that a book would be written.
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#205Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:53pm
And we have to keep in mind that the score is KILLER and very difficult to perform with all of that choreography! I imagine a few songs would be cut or shortened, and a few songs added and rearranged here and there to give "Marilyn" a break.
And, her life has to fit into 2-3 hours too. And, it's more difficult to write a songs first, then a book.
And to give her a break, the "Marilyn" may need to not perform matinees.
(Here I am talking about it like it's real musical 
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Updated On: 6/10/15 at 05:53 PM
DaveyG
Leading Actor Joined: 8/11/05
#206Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 5:59pm
I would think that since it was written for and paid for by NBC for a television series (even though it's a program about a Broadway musical), that it would not be eligible for original score. I'm sure the producers would petition and who knows, maybe they'd get their way…stranger things have happened.
#207Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 7:25pm
TV, concept album and starry concert. Not gonna get original score- but it wouldn't necessarily need it.
Back Row
Leading Actor Joined: 4/14/12
#208Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 9:15pm
Why would it have to be "Bombshell" in order to get these songs on Broadway? How about a show about a misguided attempt to create a TV show about creating a Broadway show, opening up the possibility of not only including other songs from Smash, but allowing Andy Meintus to rise from the dead? And include subplots about cast members going on to do other things, or attempting to do other things, with a Harvey Weinstein type villain thrown into the mix. Then everybody comes together for the big concert at the end.
On second thought, that may be a little too far fetched. So, never mind.
#209Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/10/15 at 9:20pm
"Why would it have to be "Bombshell" in order to get these songs on Broadway? How about a show about a misguided attempt to create a TV show about creating a Broadway show, opening up the possibility of not only including other songs from Smash, but allowing Andy Meintus to rise from the dead? And include subplots about cast members going on to do other things, or attempting to do other things, with a Harvey Weinstein type villain thrown into the mix. Then everybody comes together for the big concert at the end."
I sense the birth of a new format... THE BROADWAY, WEEKLY, SERIALIZED, EPISODIC SPECTACULAR!!
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broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#210Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:33am
If Bombshell did come to Broadway the keys would need to be lowered or some things would have to be head voiced to do it eight times a week. The score while of the best ones written fairly recently is amazing it would be crazy difficult for whoever plays Marilyn (hopefully Megan if it comes) to sing night after night.
#211Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:55am
"If Bombshell did come to Broadway the keys would need to be lowered or some things would have to be head voiced to do it eight times a week. The score while of the best ones written fairly recently is amazing it would be crazy difficult for whoever plays Marilyn (hopefully Megan if it comes) to sing night after night. "
^What? Some of this makes sense, but then some...What?
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
#214Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 8:33am
She was fantastic!
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#215Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 11:25am
"Megan Hilty, Goddess.
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absolute perfection!!! Hitly is a Goddess!!
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#216Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:06pm
Megan and this song blow my mind. Seriously out of the park on so many levels.
#217Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:36pm
CoreyRyan I was wondering the same thing! Would BOMBSHELL be eligible for Best Score, or even Best New Musical? How much of the score would have to be replaced or redone to qualify for the "new" title...I don't know all the technical requirements...
At the end of the day it was a fun show! If this is the end for the material it was a great ride while it lasted.
#218Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 3:39pm
I suspect that, regardless of the show's eventual narrative in the TV version, the musical, if it ever gets staged, will feature Marilyn as a dual role.
This is both because this has become it's sort of famous "hook," and because of numbers like "Let Me Be Your Star," which not only focus lyrically on the duality of Marilyn and Norma Jean, but lose a lot of their punch when sung as solos and not duets.
#219Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/12/15 at 7:16pm
I liked the concept of one actress playing the "real" Marilyn and another the "public relations" Marilyn.
Makes me wonder how they would nominate for a Tony?
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#220Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/13/15 at 2:01am
As for the score being eligible, they keep moving the line. The scores of Beauty & the Beast and Aladdin were both nominated although their scores were written for movies. Mary Poppins was not. For State Fair they ruled that interpolated songs that had been previously heard on Broadway were not eligible, so you could only vote for songs from the two movies and the interpolated trunk songs (and despite that silliness it actually got a nomination for best score). Jukebox musical scores are not eligible. So I would think that the score of Bombshell, having never been heard on Broadway, would be eligible but who knows? But since there is no Bombshell musical it's all theoretical.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#221Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/13/15 at 8:24am
I am sorry, I am a little dense..and also a little confused about what you meant when you said Beauty and the Best and Aladdin could be nominated but not Mary Poppins. Did you mean the rules changed at that time (which to me sounds weird because it came between the other two shows, not before or after). Or were there lesser known songs, more new material, etc.? Or some actual actors/stars singing the songs in the film, as opposed to simply animated characters.. that affected the decision?
Just curious...
#222Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/13/15 at 12:58pm
For what it's worth, Mary Poppins was ELIGIBLE for score. It just wasn't nominated (the far superior scores for Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Curtains, and Legally Blonde were).
Starship
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/12
#223Bombshell Benefit Concert
Posted: 6/13/15 at 3:32pm
If this show came to Broadway I would rather see the score cut and re-modified so it wouldn't be so vocally demanding then see two actors split the role of Norma/Marilyn. Even though Hilty is in her mid-30's, I'd still love to see her play Marilyn.
