The Financial Times has praised Smash star Megan Hilty’s performance as Lorelei in the New York City Center.
“A chief challenge facing Megan Hilty, the ripe, gifted performer playing Lorelei at City Center, is how to give us the character even as she, inescapably, cannot banish Monroe. This would be the case even if Hilty were not currently starring in the television backstage drama Smash, in which she plays a chorus girl vying for the leading part in a Broadway show about Marilyn. It’s enough to give one a migraine of meta.
But Hilty’s freshness banishes the pain. Her characterisation is more confidently brash than Monroe’s, and she possesses a powerful singing voice the likes of which her predecessor, who was partially dubbed, could only dream.”
