After a wildly popular benefit performance, Bombshell – the Marilyn-inspired musical featured in TV’s Smash – is heading for Broadway, Variety reports.
“Still, a final product is likely a long ways off, given that the musical bio of Marilyn Monroe currently has lots of catchy songs — courtesy of Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who penned the tunes for the TV series — but no book with which to string them together.
Whether Shaiman and Wittman, whose Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is targeting Broadway next season, will write new songs for the stage version isn’t yet clear, although it seems likely.
Although the original cast of the TV series — including recent Tony winner Christian Borle as well as Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty alternating in the role of Marilyn — appeared in the concert version earlier this month, none of them are attached to the brewing stage production.”
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