Smash is coming to Broadway this spring.
The musical, which is an adaptation of the NBC tv sequence, will open at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre on April 10, 2025, with previews beginning March 11. Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Steven Spielberg are lead producing, with Susan Stroman, a Tony Award winner for The Producers, because the director.
The present, directed by Stroman, will star Robyn Hurder (Moulin Rouge) as Ivy, Brooks Ashmanskas (The Promenade) as Nigel, Krysta Rodriguez (Spring Awakening) as Tracy, John Behlmann (Shucked) as Jerry, Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) as Susan, Caroline Bowman (Frozen) as Karen, Jacqueline B. Arnold (Moulin Rouge) as Anita, Bella Coppola (Six) as Chloe and Casey Garvin (Some Like It Scorching) as Charlie.
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Some Like It Scorching, Hairspray, Solely Murders within the Constructing) wrote the rating, which incorporates most of the songs the 2 wrote for the tv present in addition to new materials. Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) and Bob Martin (The Promenade) wrote the ebook to the musical and Joshua Bergasse who choreographed the tv sequence, returns as choreographer of the stage present.
The tv present, which ran on NBC from 2012-2013, starred Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee and Christian Borle and adopted them of their mounting of musicals for Broadway, together with Bombshell, a fictional musical concerning the lifetime of Marilyn Monroe. Spielberg got here up with the concept for the sequence.
The musical will even see its Broadway characters attempting to create Bombshell, however the manufacturing has mentioned it is going to “additionally depart liberally from the sequence.” Jennifer Hudson, who was a visitor star on the second season of the tv present, has additionally joined the manufacturing group for the stage present.
The Broadway present has been within the works for years. Greenblatt and different group members started speaking about bringing the present to an even bigger stage after a 2015 one-night charity profit live performance model of Bombshell. It was initially introduced for Broadway in 2020, however delayed, and the group held a developmental workshop of the present final summer time.
“Neil, Steven and I are elated to announce that Smash is unquestionably coming to Broadway this season, a dozen years after the sequence ended on NBC! We all the time knew Shaiman & Wittman’s incredible rating belonged on Broadway, and our present is a intelligent, humorous adaptation of the sequence — with a couple of surprises — that we hope will delight die-hard followers in addition to anybody who didn’t see the sequence,” Greenblatt mentioned.
The musical will function scenic design by Beowulf Boritt (New York, New York), costume design by Alejo Vietti (Titanique), lighting design by Ken Billington (Chicago), sound design by Brian Ronan (Stunning: The Carole King Musical), projection design by S Katy Tucker, orchestrations by Doug Besterman (The Producers) and music supervision by Stephen Oremus (Depraved).