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"'''Let Me Be Your Star'''" is an original song performed by characters Karen Cartwright ([[Katharine McPhee]]) and Ivy Lynn ([[Megan Hilty]]) in the musical TV series ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]''. It was first sung in [[Pilot (Smash)|the pilot]], but has since been reprised numerous times as a duet, a solo by Karen or Ivy, or by Rebecca Duvall ([[Uma Thurman]]). The version on the album ''[[The Music of Smash]]'' is the pilot version. The song was released as a single by NBC Studios LLC on January 16, 2012 on iTunes.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-me-be-your-star-feat./id494310922 | title=Let Me Be Your Star (feat. Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [From the TV Series "SMASH"] - Single | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> The publisher of the sheet music is Alfred Publishing Co.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/let-me-be-your-star-p429466.aspx | title=Let Me Be Your Star Sheet Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref>
"'''Let Me Be Your Star'''" is an original song performed by characters Karen Cartwright ([[Katharine McPhee]]) and Ivy Lynn ([[Megan Hilty]]) in the musical TV series ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]''. It was first sung in [[Pilot (Smash)|the pilot]], but has since been reprised numerous times as a duet, a solo by Karen or Ivy, or by Rebecca Duvall ([[Uma Thurman]]). The version on the album ''[[The Music of Smash]]'' is the pilot version. The song was released as a single by NBC Studios LLC on January 16, 2012 on iTunes.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-me-be-your-star-feat./id494310922 | title=Let Me Be Your Star (feat. Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [From the TV Series "SMASH"] - Single | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> The publisher of the sheet music is Alfred Publishing Co.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/let-me-be-your-star-p429466.aspx | title=Let Me Be Your Star Sheet Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> The song is the bestselling Smash iTunes track as of April 13, 2012 with 48,000 downloads.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-13/entertainment/sns-201204131600reedbusivarietynvr1118052405apr13_1_smash-megan-hilty-marc-shaiman | title=Building into a 'Smash?': Music for Screens: Spring 2012 | publisher=Chicago Tribute | date=April 13, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Burlingame, Jon}}</ref>


While the song was written by [[Marc Shaiman]] and [[Scott Wittman]], in the television show the song is depicted as having been written by songwriting duo Julia Houston ([[Debra Messing]]) and Tom Levitt ([[Christian Borle]]) for a musical based on [[Marylin Monroe]]'s life entitled ''Bombshell''. The music is by Marc Shaiman. In the pilot, the song is in the key of G♭ major, has a tempo of 143 beats per minute,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0100439 | title=Let Me Be Your Star Katharine McPhee Digital Sheet Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> and is 03:13 long.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.last.fm/music/SMASH+Cast/_/Let+Me+Be+Your+Star | title=Smash Cast – Let Me Be Your Star (3:13) | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref>
While the song was written by [[Marc Shaiman]] and [[Scott Wittman]], in the television show the song is depicted as having been written by songwriting duo Julia Houston ([[Debra Messing]]) and Tom Levitt ([[Christian Borle]]) for a musical based on [[Marylin Monroe]]'s life entitled ''Bombshell''. The music is by Marc Shaiman. In the pilot, the song is in the key of G♭ major, has a tempo of 143 beats per minute,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0100439 | title=Let Me Be Your Star Katharine McPhee Digital Sheet Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> and is 03:13 long.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.last.fm/music/SMASH+Cast/_/Let+Me+Be+Your+Star | title=Smash Cast – Let Me Be Your Star (3:13) | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref>
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Scott Wittman explained that they received notes on "Let Me Be Your Star" by Arthur Freed (MGM producer of "Singin' in the Rain" and "Meet Me in St. Louis"). Freed said to the writing duo that "this has to be more universal in its story. It has to be about people who want something and fight for it."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/04/entertainment/la-ca-smash-music-20120304 | title='Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 04, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Villarreal, Yvonne}}</ref>
Scott Wittman explained that they received notes on "Let Me Be Your Star" by Arthur Freed (MGM producer of "Singin' in the Rain" and "Meet Me in St. Louis"). Freed said to the writing duo that "this has to be more universal in its story. It has to be about people who want something and fight for it."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/04/entertainment/la-ca-smash-music-20120304 | title='Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 04, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Villarreal, Yvonne}}</ref>


The song fulfilled the writers' desire to "to try and make each song somehow mirror what was going on in the episode." The song makes contextual sense in regards to the lives of both auctioneers, and Marylin Monroe herself.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-13/entertainment/sns-201204131600reedbusivarietynvr1118052405apr13_1_smash-megan-hilty-marc-shaiman | title=Building into a 'Smash?': Music for Screens: Spring 2012 | publisher=Chicago Tribute | date=April 13, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Burlingame, Jon}}</ref>
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The synopsis of the number in the pilot, as described by [[AfterElton]], is "Karen and Ivy trade verses as they and the casting panel converge for the callback, finally forming an ersatz duet as they meet outside the building where the callback is being held."<ref name="afterelton">{{cite web | url=http://www.afterelton.com/tv/recaps/smash-101?page=0%2C4 | title="Smash" Series Premiere: "Let Me Be Your Star!" | date=February 7, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> Vulture describes the song as a "propulsive non-diagetic duet/duel".<ref name="vulture">{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/smashs-show-within-the-show.html | title=New York Magazine Stage Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash's Show-Within-the-Show | date=2/7/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref> Yvonne Villarreal of the Los Angeles Times describes the song as a "sweeping duet battle".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/04/entertainment/la-ca-smash-music-20120304 | title='Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 04, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Villarreal, Yvonne}}</ref> The song makes contextual sense in regards to the lives of both auctioneers, and Marylin Monroe herself.

"Let Me Be Your Star", along with other pilot songs "The National Pastime" and "Beautiful", "fit into the storyline in a realist manner and each had a purpose to them". This is one reason why the series had been drscribed as the "anti-glee".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.buddytv.com/articles/smash/is-smash-the-anti-glee-43952.aspx | title=Is 'Smash' the Anti-'Glee'? | publisher=buddyTV | date=February 13, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Dodge, Jeff}}</ref>

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The synopsis of the number in the pilot, as described by [[AfterElton]], is "Karen and Ivy trade verses as they and the casting panel converge for the callback, finally forming an ersatz duet as they meet outside the building where the callback is being held."<ref name="afterelton">{{cite web | url=http://www.afterelton.com/tv/recaps/smash-101?page=0%2C4 | title="Smash" Series Premiere: "Let Me Be Your Star!" | date=February 7, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> Vulture describes the song as a "propulsive non-diagetic duet/duel".<ref name="vulture">{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/smashs-show-within-the-show.html | title=New York Magazine Stage Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash's Show-Within-the-Show | date=2/7/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref> Yvonne Villarreal of the Los Angeles Times describes the song as a "sweeping duet battle".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/04/entertainment/la-ca-smash-music-20120304 | title='Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 04, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Villarreal, Yvonne}}</ref>


Scott Brown describes the song's reprise in the second episode, "[[The Callback]]", as "[Karen and Ivy] standing center stage 'in a pool of light'...around her, phantom blondes spit spoken torments between the musical phrases".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/theater-critic-scott-brown-reviews-smashs-show-within-the-show-week-two.html | title=Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash’s Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED] | publisher=Vulture | date=2/14/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref>
Scott Brown describes the song's reprise in the second episode, "[[The Callback]]", as "[Karen and Ivy] standing center stage 'in a pool of light'...around her, phantom blondes spit spoken torments between the musical phrases".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/theater-critic-scott-brown-reviews-smashs-show-within-the-show-week-two.html | title=Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash’s Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED] | publisher=Vulture | date=2/14/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref>

In the seventh episode "The Workshop", Ivy sings "Let Me Be Your Star" at the musical workshop "while the musical’s creators and other observers look on".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://popcrush.com/smash-teaser-features-broadway-legend-bernadette-peters/ | title=‘Smash’ Teaser Features Broadway Legend Bernadette Peters | publisher=PopCrush | date=March 16, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Shetler, Scott}}</ref>

In the eleventh episode "The Movie Star", Rebecca Duvall performs the song.


==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
AfterElton describes the pilot version of the song as "genius", and "blend[s] an amazing cocktail of determination and confidence with need and desire". It made comparisons with the "The Music and the Mirror" from [[A Chorus Line]], "Tonight" from [[West Side Story]], and "Walk Through the Fire" from the musical Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling".<ref name="afterelton" /> Scott Shetler of PopCrush gave the song a rating of 4 stars, commenting "McPhee and Hilty sound terrific while belting out identical notes over most of the final chorus, finishing with a bang with a brief moment of harmony on the final, drawn-out note."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://popcrush.com/smash-let-me-be-your-star/ | title='Smash' Cast, 'Let Me Be Your Star' – Song Review | publisher=PopCrush | date=February 6, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Scott Shetler}}</ref> Scott Brown of Vulture describes the song as the "best number" of the pilot, and compares the "driving, pop-injected act-ender" to "Defying Gravity" form Wicked. He comments that of all the original songs featured in the pilot, this one sounded the least "Shaimanesque", although he was confident that it would end up in the musical regardless. He says that while the song has "energy and lift", it has a repetative "downward-gliding melody line". He adds that "the scene itself is cut for maximum 'things are happening! Happening right now!' urgency", and drawn a comparison with his "favourite lyric" the musical episode of Community "Everything's cooler when cameras are spinning / Singing and dancing in unison-in-in-ing".<ref name="vulture" /> It has been described as a "show-stopp[er]"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/02/06/smash-series-premiere-review-katharine-mcphee-marilyn-monroe/?v02 | title=‘Smash’ Series Premiere Recap: Who Should Play Marilyn Monroe? | publisher=HollywoodLife | date=7 February, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Swift, Andy}}</ref> and "an instant musical theatre classic".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rideaumusic.com/product-299713 | title=Let Me Be Your Star | publisher=Rideau Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> One of the staff of AfterEllen commented that they had "lost count of how many times they'd watched or listened to [the song]".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afterellen.com/TV/recaps/smash-episode-1?page=0%2C4 | title="Smash" Series Premiere: “Let Me Be Your Star!” | publisher=AfterEllen | date=February 7, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> Jarett Wieselman of TheInsider.com comments that the pilot had "as energizing a denouement as [he's] ever seen" thanks to "Let Me Be Your Star", and adds that the song could be "Smash's very own Don't Stop Believin'", i.e., Smash's unofficial theme song in the same way that Don't Stop Believing is Glee's.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theinsider.com/tv/49473_Smash_pilot_review/index.html | title=Is 'Smash' Anything To Sing About? | date=February 06, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Wieselman, Jarett}}</ref>
AfterElton describes the pilot version of the song as "genius", and "blend[s] an amazing cocktail of determination and confidence with need and desire". It made comparisons with the "The Music and the Mirror" from [[A Chorus Line]], "Tonight" from [[West Side Story]], and "Walk Through the Fire" from the musical Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling".<ref name="afterelton" /> Scott Shetler of PopCrush gave the song a rating of 4 stars, commenting "McPhee and Hilty sound terrific while belting out identical notes over most of the final chorus, finishing with a bang with a brief moment of harmony on the final, drawn-out note."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://popcrush.com/smash-let-me-be-your-star/ | title='Smash' Cast, 'Let Me Be Your Star' – Song Review | publisher=PopCrush | date=February 6, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Scott Shetler}}</ref> Scott Brown of Vulture describes the song as the "best number" of the pilot, and compares the "driving, pop-injected act-ender" to "Defying Gravity" form Wicked. He comments that of all the original songs featured in the pilot, this one sounded the least "Shaimanesque", although he was confident that it would end up in the musical regardless. He says that while the song has "energy and lift", it has a repetative "downward-gliding melody line". He adds that "the scene itself is cut for maximum 'things are happening! Happening right now!' urgency", and drawn a comparison with his "favourite lyric" the musical episode of Community "Everything's cooler when cameras are spinning / Singing and dancing in unison-in-in-ing".<ref name="vulture" /> It has been described as a "show-stopp[er]"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/02/06/smash-series-premiere-review-katharine-mcphee-marilyn-monroe/?v02 | title=‘Smash’ Series Premiere Recap: Who Should Play Marilyn Monroe? | publisher=HollywoodLife | date=7 February, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Swift, Andy}}</ref>, "an instant musical theatre classic",<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rideaumusic.com/product-299713 | title=Let Me Be Your Star | publisher=Rideau Music | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> and the reason for an "explosive finale" to the pilot.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120130/120130_smash_tv/20120130/?hub=CP24Entertainment | title='Smash' blends drama with original songs | publisher=CP24 | date=January 30, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> One of the staff of AfterEllen commented that they had "lost count of how many times they'd watched or listened to [the song]".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afterellen.com/TV/recaps/smash-episode-1?page=0%2C4 | title="Smash" Series Premiere: “Let Me Be Your Star!” | publisher=AfterEllen | date=February 7, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012}}</ref> Jarett Wieselman of TheInsider.com comments that the pilot had "as energizing a denouement as [he's] ever seen" thanks to "Let Me Be Your Star", and adds that the song could be "Smash's very own Don't Stop Believin'", i.e., Smash's unofficial theme song in the same way that Don't Stop Believing is Glee's.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theinsider.com/tv/49473_Smash_pilot_review/index.html | title=Is 'Smash' Anything To Sing About? | date=February 06, 2012 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Wieselman, Jarett}}</ref>


Scott Brown comments that in the reprise in "The Callback", the song is more suited to the slower tempo, and adds that it "gives those long phrases a chance to breathe and doesn't force them to carry a whole lot of driving rhythmic energy".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/theater-critic-scott-brown-reviews-smashs-show-within-the-show-week-two.html | title=Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash’s Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED] | publisher=Vulture | date=2/14/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref>
Scott Brown comments that in the reprise in "The Callback", the song is more suited to the slower tempo, and adds that it "gives those long phrases a chance to breathe and doesn't force them to carry a whole lot of driving rhythmic energy".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/theater-critic-scott-brown-reviews-smashs-show-within-the-show-week-two.html | title=Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash’s Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED] | publisher=Vulture | date=2/14/12 | accessdate=April 28, 2012 | author=Brown, Scott}}</ref>

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"Let Me Be Your Star"
Song

"Let Me Be Your Star" is an original song performed by characters Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) in the musical TV series Smash. It was first sung in the pilot, but has since been reprised numerous times as a duet, a solo by Karen or Ivy, or by Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman). The version on the album The Music of Smash is the pilot version. The song was released as a single by NBC Studios LLC on January 16, 2012 on iTunes.[1] The publisher of the sheet music is Alfred Publishing Co.[2] The song is the bestselling Smash iTunes track as of April 13, 2012 with 48,000 downloads.[3]

While the song was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, in the television show the song is depicted as having been written by songwriting duo Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) for a musical based on Marylin Monroe's life entitled Bombshell. The music is by Marc Shaiman. In the pilot, the song is in the key of G♭ major, has a tempo of 143 beats per minute,[4] and is 03:13 long.[5]

Production

Scott Wittman explained that they received notes on "Let Me Be Your Star" by Arthur Freed (MGM producer of "Singin' in the Rain" and "Meet Me in St. Louis"). Freed said to the writing duo that "this has to be more universal in its story. It has to be about people who want something and fight for it."[6]

The song fulfilled the writers' desire to "to try and make each song somehow mirror what was going on in the episode." The song makes contextual sense in regards to the lives of both auctioneers, and Marylin Monroe herself.[7]

"Let Me Be Your Star", along with other pilot songs "The National Pastime" and "Beautiful", "fit into the storyline in a realist manner and each had a purpose to them". This is one reason why the series had been drscribed as the "anti-glee".[8]

The synopsis of the number in the pilot, as described by AfterElton, is "Karen and Ivy trade verses as they and the casting panel converge for the callback, finally forming an ersatz duet as they meet outside the building where the callback is being held."[9] Vulture describes the song as a "propulsive non-diagetic duet/duel".[10] Yvonne Villarreal of the Los Angeles Times describes the song as a "sweeping duet battle".[11]

Scott Brown describes the song's reprise in the second episode, "The Callback", as "[Karen and Ivy] standing center stage 'in a pool of light'...around her, phantom blondes spit spoken torments between the musical phrases".[12]

In the seventh episode "The Workshop", Ivy sings "Let Me Be Your Star" at the musical workshop "while the musical’s creators and other observers look on".[13]

In the eleventh episode "The Movie Star", Rebecca Duvall performs the song.

Critical reception

AfterElton describes the pilot version of the song as "genius", and "blend[s] an amazing cocktail of determination and confidence with need and desire". It made comparisons with the "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line, "Tonight" from West Side Story, and "Walk Through the Fire" from the musical Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling".[9] Scott Shetler of PopCrush gave the song a rating of 4 stars, commenting "McPhee and Hilty sound terrific while belting out identical notes over most of the final chorus, finishing with a bang with a brief moment of harmony on the final, drawn-out note."[14] Scott Brown of Vulture describes the song as the "best number" of the pilot, and compares the "driving, pop-injected act-ender" to "Defying Gravity" form Wicked. He comments that of all the original songs featured in the pilot, this one sounded the least "Shaimanesque", although he was confident that it would end up in the musical regardless. He says that while the song has "energy and lift", it has a repetative "downward-gliding melody line". He adds that "the scene itself is cut for maximum 'things are happening! Happening right now!' urgency", and drawn a comparison with his "favourite lyric" the musical episode of Community "Everything's cooler when cameras are spinning / Singing and dancing in unison-in-in-ing".[10] It has been described as a "show-stopp[er]"[15], "an instant musical theatre classic",[16] and the reason for an "explosive finale" to the pilot.[17] One of the staff of AfterEllen commented that they had "lost count of how many times they'd watched or listened to [the song]".[18] Jarett Wieselman of TheInsider.com comments that the pilot had "as energizing a denouement as [he's] ever seen" thanks to "Let Me Be Your Star", and adds that the song could be "Smash's very own Don't Stop Believin'", i.e., Smash's unofficial theme song in the same way that Don't Stop Believing is Glee's.[19]

Scott Brown comments that in the reprise in "The Callback", the song is more suited to the slower tempo, and adds that it "gives those long phrases a chance to breathe and doesn't force them to carry a whole lot of driving rhythmic energy".[20]

TV Fanatic notes that in episode 11, "The Movie Star", Rebecca Duvall's version of "Let Me Be Your Star" was "horrendous", and adds "all Tom and Julia could say was 'great' — ha! And, even that single word pained them to say".[21] JJ comments that she "fails to deliver".[22] Marianne Schaberg of Character Grades said that Duvall's version at the workshop "felt like we were watching a repeat of Lana Del Rey on SNL. Yikes."[23]

Other performances

References

  1. ^ "Let Me Be Your Star (feat. Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [From the TV Series "SMASH"] - Single". Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  2. ^ "Let Me Be Your Star Sheet Music". Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  3. ^ Burlingame, Jon (April 13, 2012). "Building into a 'Smash?': Music for Screens: Spring 2012". Chicago Tribute. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  4. ^ "Let Me Be Your Star Katharine McPhee Digital Sheet Music". Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  5. ^ "Smash Cast – Let Me Be Your Star (3:13)". Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  6. ^ Villarreal, Yvonne (March 04, 2012). "'Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ Burlingame, Jon (April 13, 2012). "Building into a 'Smash?': Music for Screens: Spring 2012". Chicago Tribute. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  8. ^ Dodge, Jeff (February 13, 2012). "Is 'Smash' the Anti-'Glee'?". buddyTV. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  9. ^ a b ""Smash" Series Premiere: "Let Me Be Your Star!"". February 7, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  10. ^ a b Brown, Scott (2/7/12). "New York Magazine Stage Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash's Show-Within-the-Show". Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Villarreal, Yvonne (March 04, 2012). "'Smash': Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman want to make viewers hum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Brown, Scott (2/14/12). "Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash's Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED]". Vulture. Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ Shetler, Scott (March 16, 2012). "'Smash' Teaser Features Broadway Legend Bernadette Peters". PopCrush. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  14. ^ Scott Shetler (February 6, 2012). "'Smash' Cast, 'Let Me Be Your Star' – Song Review". PopCrush. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  15. ^ Swift, Andy (7 February, 2012). "'Smash' Series Premiere Recap: Who Should Play Marilyn Monroe?". HollywoodLife. Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Let Me Be Your Star". Rideau Music. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  17. ^ "'Smash' blends drama with original songs". CP24. January 30, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  18. ^ ""Smash" Series Premiere: "Let Me Be Your Star!"". AfterEllen. February 7, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  19. ^ Wieselman, Jarett (February 06, 2012). "Is 'Smash' Anything To Sing About?". Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ Brown, Scott (2/14/12). "Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash's Show-Within-the-Show for Week Two [UPDATED]". Vulture. Retrieved April 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ "Smash Review: "The Movie Star"". April 17, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  22. ^ "Recap/Review – Smash – "The Movie Star" – 4/16/12". April 18, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  23. ^ Schaberg, Marianne (April 17, 2012). "Smash. The Movie Star". Character Grades. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  24. ^ "New Year's Eve, Tinker Bell, and Smash Screenings". January 1, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
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