Ah mid-season. You tantalize us with your casting announcements, but all the fall season premieres in the world couldn't detract from you mysterious allure. Wait, what were we talking about? Oh, right. By this point the second season of NBC's hotly anticipated Broadway drama 'Smash' is primed to explode if it throws in any more big name theatre talent, but thankfully the latest has already been 'Smash'ed once before. Bernadette Peters will return to her season 1 role when the series picks up in 2013, but how long will she stick around?
Will the madness of 'Smash' season 2 never end? The hit NBC series won't debut its re-vamped second season until sometime in mid-season, yet the casting news seems to come at no end. Late last week we learned that Broadway vet and 'Law & Order' alum Jesse L. Martin would take a recurring role in the upcoming season, and now it seems 'Smash' has spritzed up another musical theatre star in 'Hairspray's Nikki Blonsky, but why is the role being kept so under wraps?
We're less than five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes away from the season 2 premiere of NBC's hotly debated musical drama 'Smash,' but still the casting wheels keep on turning. The series has experienced a number of cast and creative turnover since its first season, including either of Julia (Debra Messing)'s love interests, leaving plenty room to fill, but what former 'Law & Order' star and 'Rent' alum will cover her when season 2 premieres?
Well, that didn't take very long. Just about ever since we knew that Debra Messing was making a regular return to TV, centered on theatre with NBC's 'Smash,' no less, we knew it to be a matter of time before the stars of Messing's former hit 'Will & Grace' put in an appearance. However, Will won't be piping up just yet, rather Jack, as Sean Hayes has signed for a multi-episode arc! Who will he play, though, and will he burst into song?
Things might get pretty cold in New York City by the time 'Smash' season 2 raises its curtains, but things are only heating up for Debra Messing's Julia. Earlier, we learned that actor Brian D'Arcy (ulia's husband Frank) had officially departed the series, but now a former 'Rescue Me' star will start a fire in her heart. How long will this one stick around, and will we hear him flex those pipes?
'Smash' is going to be a very different show when it returns for season 2 in 2013, and now we've got a much clearer picture of how. Previously, we learned that Dev, Ellis and Julia's husband Michael would make their exit, and that several new characters have been cast recently for series regular roles. So, who's the latest to join the ensemble?
Considering that NBC musical hit 'Smash' only aired thirteen episodes beginning at mid-season this year, and won't return until 2013, it might be difficult to have a clear sense of the show given all the recent changes, and castings we've heard about. Still, with so many season 1 plot lines thrown out the window, what's going to dominate 'Smash' season 2 when it bows next year?
What we're coming to like about 'Smash' more and more is how it appropriately casts actors with ties to the New York theatre scene, rather than simply picking pretty faces out of Hollywood. Sure' we've got Jennifer Hudson on deck to play a large role in 'Smash' season 2, but who's the latest true Broadway star to land a role in NBC's hotly-debated musical hit?
'Smash' had a rough first season, but so do most shows when they're trying to find their footing - it's hard to name a great show where its first season isn't it's worst. The show has gone through a heavy makeover for season two, they've already removed hated characters and added new ones, and they've just made another smart decision: hiring Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson for a couple episode arc.
'Smash' is going to be a very different show when it finally picks back up for a second season, and now we're starting to get a look at how. We already knew the big news that Raza Jaffrey and Jaime Cepero, actors behind the first season's most abhorred characters Dev and Ellis would make a discreet exit, as well as several others, but now season 2 is starting to shape up under new show-runner Josh Saphran. So, who's the latest to join the ensemble?
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