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Is it Karen or Ivy who lands the role of Marilyn in “Smash”? The season finale airs 9 p.m. Monday on KSL Channel 5.
Photo by ERIC LIEBOWITZ/NBC

Why 'Smash' has crashed

Last updated Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 7:53am

It didn't start out that way. The NBC series, which revolves around the making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe, premiered in February to 11.5 million viewers, a godsend for a network whose prime-time lineup is holding on by a thread or, more specifically, a mindless singing competition ("The Voice").

NBC quickly renewed "Smash" for a second season and executives almost certainly began plotting "Law & Order: Broadway."

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Fan wants details about David Tutera

Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 7:29am

Q: I so admire David Tutera. Can you tell me about him? He appears to have a significant other (silver ring). He has to be amazingly wealthy: his own show, dress and jewelry lines, Most of all, he seems to be a very nice person.

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Katharine McPhee as Karen Cartwright in “Smash,” premiering 9 p.m. Monday on KSL Channel 5.

'Smash' is ready for spotlight

Chuck Barney Contra Costa Times

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 8:42am

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- All the world may be a stage, but Megan Hilty, one of the stars of NBC's "Smash," has been around long enough to know that the most compelling action doesn't happen under the spotlights.

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In this theater publicity image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Andrew Rannells, center, performs with an ensemble cast in "The Book of Mormon" at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York.

'Book of Mormon' musical leads Tonys

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 10:55pm

NEW YORK -- The profane and hysterical "The Book of Mormon" took home nine Tony Awards on Sunday, including the prize for best musical, a considerable achievement for a pair of first-time Broadway playwrights known more for their raunchy cartoons featuring potty-mouthed kids.

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Trey Parker (right) and Matt Stone, co-creators of the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon," pose for a portrait outside the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City.

`Book of Mormon' stories, `South Park'-style

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 25, 2011 - 12:29pm

NEW YORK -- For years, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have lampooned everything, from Scientology to Tiger Woods, Prius drivers to Islam, Britney Spears to the great state of New Jersey.

They've even had the boldness to make fun of George Clooney.

Is nothing sacred?

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(MARK LENNIHAN/The Associated Press) People line up to enter the Foxwoods Theatre for a matinee showing of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” on Wednesday in New York.

Beleaguered Spider-Man musical hires new creative team

Jocelyn Noveck, Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:05pm

NEW YORK -- Producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man" musical postponed the show's official opening for a stunning sixth time, announcing Wednesday that it will not officially open until this summer and that it will bring in a new creative team.

Julie Taymor, who directed and co-wrote the book for "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark," will no longer helm the production but will be a part of the creative team, the producers said.

The delay revealed a production so trouble-plagued that it has taken itself out of the running for Tony Award consideration this year, but it will be eligible for the 2012 season. The $65 million show was scheduled to open on March 15.

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'Spider-Man' will resume with new safety measures

David Bauder, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 6:12pm

NEW YORK -- The curtain will go up again Thursday on "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" after the producers of the accident-plagued Broadway musical agreed to new safety precautions to prevent another fall like the one that left a stuntman seriously injured.

The state Labor Department said it is satisfied the producers of the $65 million musical have made the necessary adjustments.

Wednesday night's performance was canceled so that the cast and crew could rehearse the new precautions, which include a requirement that a second person ensure that the harnesses used by performers during the show's high-flying stunts have been put on properly.

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'Spider-Man' stuntman injured in a fall

Hillel Italie

Last updated Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 5:21pm

NEW YORK -- Broadway might need a superhero to save the new Spider-Man musical.

The troubled, big-budget "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was hit by its fourth accident since it began previews last month when a stuntman playing the skyscraper-scaling superhero fell about 30 feet into a stage pit during a performance Monday night. The safety tether that clips to his back failed to prevent the spill.

The performer, identified by a fellow cast member as 31-year-old Christopher Tierney, was wheeled out of the Foxwoods Theatre on a stretcher, still in his costume, and taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital with minor injuries. He suffered broken ribs and internal bleeding, said the castmate, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the musical.

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