And Karen makes a decision about her rehearsals that could jeopardize her relationship to Dev. Behind the scenes, Derek still believes Karen is the better candidate, as her freshness and S1, Ep3. For Karen, a trip back to Iowa for a friend's baby shower places her life into perspective for her, her friends and her family.
Ivy's own insecurities surface as she wonders if she only got the part because she is sleeping with Derek. With the principal female lead cast, the casting moves to the three male leads, the first being Joe DiMaggio. The name that comes to mind for most is S1, Ep4. Despite their respective roles in the production, the seeming battle between Ivy and Karen continues into the workshop. Ivy is mad since she wasn't told previously that Karen would be in the ensemble.
Ivy, despite or because she knows Karen is talented, does whatever she can to ensure that Karen gets as little work in the background as possible. Karen is mad as she learns that Ivy and Derek are in a sexual relationship, something she knows she could have had with Derek if she wanted, and something she knows got Ivy the part regardless of talent.
She is also mad S1, Ep5. In the workshop, Derek seems to be changing both his professional and personal allegiance from Ivy to Karen, which places both women in an awkward and embarrassing situation. While Ivy continues to take her frustration out on Karen, Karen seeks support from Dev, who provides little as he is focused on his own issue of a job promotion. Despite Karen feeling that one of Dev's professional associates has her sights on him, Karen is able to funnel her energies and channel a little bit of Marilyn in helping Dev in his cause.
Meanwhile, Leo gets into a situation with the S1, Ep6. The workshop is being shown to potential investors. It's not good timing for either the creative team or Ivy has she has come down with a vocal stress issue, which is affecting her ability to sing.
Ivy is prescribed steroids to overcome the issue, but since she is hypersensitive to drugs, she has to make the decision to let the stress heal itself without the drugs which means probably allowing Karen to take over the lead for the workshop and potentially for the show, or to take the steroids and face the side effects. Meanwhile, Karen reluctantly accepts a gig that was S1, Ep7.
In the lead up to showing the workshop to potential investors, things don't seem to be going well for anyone involved with the show except Karen, whose biggest issue is if her allegiances lie with the show or furthering her music career, as a big time music producer, who only has a limited time to see her, can only do so during the investor's show.
Eileen is having problems with the building manager and getting the boiler repaired in time for the show as the building is like a furnace. Eileen gets some help on this matter from an unexpected source, which may add a S1, Ep8. It's been two days since the workshop was presented to potential investors. Since, Derek and Eileen have gone into relative hiding, not responding to any left messages.
Is silence a good thing for those involved in the show? The plan for season 3 in my mind was a Hollywood movie musical. It would shoot in New York. You see the seeds that are in the finale. So the long answer is we knew after it was broken [that it would be the final episode] but while I was writing it, I was reshaping it to be a series finale.
So I think there was still a hope that maybe the audience would return. I started reading the tea leaves so I started constructing it that way.
But I still left enough open — like not everyone gets their fully happy ending. There were certain choices I made. A little Meta moment. We all were getting the sense but no one wanted it to end. I think the thing I will be saddest about is this crew and cast was so incredible and so invested. They still are. No one stopped giving their all or checked out, from the writers to the editors to the crew and the cast.
But I still think we made it work. The stage was our stage in Greenpoint and the house was the Marquis. They were all together at Table 46 in episode It was actually going to be a much more bittersweet song. But we cut that storyline out because we needed the time and the relevant story for Jimmy is moving on from his past and the same for Julia. So initially, the writing of the song was going to be a little bit more bittersweet and summing up the year.
I know you put her through major character rehab. In the very beginning of the year when the writers all got together and we had to make the big pitch to the network and the producers, that was always in it. But who was going to win was a closely guarded secret.
Only I knew who was going to win the Tonys for a really long time. Then at a certain point I told the writers. We always knew that Bombshell was going to win. The question was going to be whether neither of them won or whether Ivy won.
For a while, it was going to be maybe Ivy wins supporting and neither of them would win actress, so we went back and forth on it. About halfway through the season, because Ivy had gone through so much in season one and season two, was all about the phoenix from the ashes for her and for everybody. Hey, wait a minute — where is Jimmy? Oh, you know, just leaving his palatial Greenpoint apartment with all his belongings packed in a few suitcases… uh oh.
Aw, remember our season 1 drinking game? Everybody swig! Welcome, everyone, to the 67th Annual Tony Awards, a ceremony with no host, about guests, and zero nominated plays! Like, the voters remember how she got this part, right? Does the audience smell a sweep? Anyway, Derek surprises everyone by actually showing up to accept the honor in person. His peers are this close to tossing tomatoes at him, yet the majority of them still voted in his favor even after the Daisy story broke out.
Capriciousness, thy name is theater people! The bad news: Some poor crew members spent hours rigging up Cirque du Soleil silks for no damn reason.
Remember Jimmy singing this song alone or so he thought at the bar? We were so young then! All our lives, we were only waiting for this moment to arrive. Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this. Just a moment… one peculiar passing moment… ahem. We of course cut to a commercial before can learn whether Karen or Ivy is victorious. And then the show returns, only to reveal that…. Josh Safran, for allowing me to be much more likable this season, though I personally could have done without the whole baby thing.
It had to end this way, as this ended up being the series finale. Their separation, it seems, is off; better finish writing that Gatsby play anyway, Julia! Tom and Patrick kiss; Julia, during the final montage, surprises Michael Swift with a visit, which, eh. Eileen is once again dating bartender Nick, freed from prison and ready to make some more shady deals.
As he tells Karen, five years ago, he watched a girl overdose and ran away instead of helping her. Why, especially, are they doing it in front of a sign that says Smash?
Farewell, my Broadway babies: You certainly left me wanting more. Note to the future: Make this show. From jail, or…? Tom was going to struggle with dating closeted Patrick.
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