The Best Part of Smash

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It's how they use New York. They shoot here. They use locations no one knows except the locals. No Statue of Fucking Liberty. Actual places like the outside of the gym at One Worldwide Plaza, restaurants in Hell's Kitchen, studios in Brooklyn, etc. Sometimes they walk through Times Square, but that's only because there are actual Broadway offices and studios there. No top of the Empire State Building, no long walks over bridges in Central Park -- nothing you haven't seen a million times before. My biggest beef with shows shot in "New York" is that you never get a sense of how it is to actually live IN New York, the way you inhabit the city, moving from midtown to Brooklyn to the Upper West Side, from restaurants to bars to theatres to apartments like urban nomads. The show is capturing that fairly well, and accurately. And it's something I haven't really seen before (outside of Sex In The City and Broadway Danny Rose).

That's it.

The Worst Part of Smash thread would be much longer.

 

[CHNOPS]

^^^With this post I have decided that you moved to New York from somewhere else.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Born and raised Chuckles.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Now tell me what color my eyes are.

 

[phrodeau]

I thought you would have switched off by now. Do you have friends on the show?

 

[KRCummings]

^^^With this post I have decided that you moved to New York from somewhere else.

I get why someone would move away from there but have never understood why anyone would voluntarily move in. It's the ninth circle of Hell.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I thought you would have switched off by now. Do you have friends on the show?

Not actors.

I was giving it one more episode. Happily, it was a good one. I was a little worried with the dumbass karoke bowling alley scene, but the director/composer throw down in Brooklyn was the best written scene in the series, and promises an interesting direction to the show. They've mostly got the ins and outs of the Broadway workshop process down (if simplified), and they're wisely got the Producer working bare-boned, so you can avoid the teams of people who would be around here otherwise, and there's not a sniff of Equity yet, but, mostly, they're getting it right. And that's something. If they can stick to Broadway and put the kibosh on Iowa and Chinese babies I think they'll be alright.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I get why someone would move away from there but have never understood why anyone would voluntarily move in. It's the ninth circle of Hell.

You're thinking of the New York in all the 70s blaxploitation movies, mama.

 

[KRCummings]

You're thinking of the New York in all the 70s blaxploitation movies, mama.

Blacula was pretty good but that was in LA which is a whole other part of Hell.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Blacula was pretty good but that was in LA which is a whole other part of Hell.

LA was better than I thought it would be -- the kind of place where you could reinvent yourself, or build your own reality. But unless you were surrounded by family and friends it's a soulless, dirty little theme park.

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."
David Letterman

 

[CHNOPS]

Your eyes are the color of dreams.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Your eyes are the color of dreams.

I'm not gay. Stop touching my hand.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hayseeds. They watch ten minutes of Seinfeld and think they ass-leak cynicism.

 

[phrodeau]

Hayseeds. They watch ten minutes of Seinfeld and think they ass-leak cynicism.

Don't knock them. They're your audience.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

A musical based on Munroes life's not a bad idea......or has it been done already?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Don't knock them. They're your audience.

You ride a coaster to shit your pants.

Same thing.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

A musical based on Munroes life's not a bad idea......or has it been done already?

Every idea's been done.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Every idea's been done.

That's so sad, shall we kill ourselves now?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

That's so sad, shall we kill ourselves now?

I didn't say they were done well.

 

[CHNOPS]

I didn't say they were done well.

Well, if 'twere done, 'tis best if....

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done with pretty girls and a decent eleven o'clock number.

 

[Cheyenne]

Not actors.

I was giving it one more episode. Happily, it was a good one. I was a little worried with the dumbass karoke bowling alley scene, but the director/composer throw down in Brooklyn was the best written scene in the series, and promises an interesting direction to the show. They've mostly got the ins and outs of the Broadway workshop process down (if simplified), and they're wisely got the Producer working bare-boned, so you can avoid the teams of people who would be around here otherwise, and there's not a sniff of Equity yet, but, mostly, they're getting it right. And that's something. If they can stick to Broadway and put the kibosh on Iowa and Chinese babies I think they'll be alright.

I watched the pilot and then decided I really had no interest in the story line and don't care much for Marilyn Monroe. Never watched it again.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I watched the pilot and then decided I really had no interest in the story line and don't care much for Marilyn Monroe. Never watched it again.

Oh yeah? I won't watch Escape from New York because it was shot in Missouri. Who's the bigger snob now, huh? Huh?

 

[Disgustipated]

The best part of Smash ran down yo momma's ass crack, sucka!

 

[Byron In Exile]

Any place with that many people packed into that small an area is a hatchery of neurotics.

And of course they love each other and their environment with a rare passion, having lost the ability to function effectively outside of it.