‘Smash’ Musical Heading To Broadway With Steven Spielberg, Neil Meron & Robert Greenblatt Producing
deadline.comSmash is finally heading to Broadway. In an announcement long awaited by fans of the 2012 NBC series, a stage musical adaptation is planned tol arrive on Broadway during the 2024-25 season, with a lead producing team of Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Steven Spielberg.
A top flight creative team is attached, including director Susan Stroman, composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, book writers Rick Elice and Bob Martin, and the TV series’ choreographer Joshua Bergasse.
Spielberg, whose original idea led to the NBC series, said in a statement, “Smash is near and dear to my heart, and it was always my hope that a musical inspired by the show would eventually come to the stage.
We now have an incredible creative team, and I’m looking forward to completing the Smash journey which began with my producing partners over ten years ago.” In addition to new music, the stage version will include many of the Shaiman-Wittman songs from the TV series, including the Emmy-nominated “Let Me Be Your Star.” Despite the inclusion of songs from the series – and while the musical will follow the program’s plot of mounting the (fictional) Bombshell bio-musical about Marilyn Monroe) – the stage version will also “depart liberally from the series,” according to today’s announcement.
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