The St. George Theatre in St. George, Staten Island, is now a smash with the television world as well.
The much lauded theatre is being showcased by being filmed this winter for a new Steven Spielberg-produced television project called "Smash" this winter. However, unlike the television show "Smash," the St. George Theatre isn’t headed for Broadway, it’ll premiere Feb. 6 on NBC instead.
The Steven Spielberg project is "a minefield of auditions, rehearsals, casting, out-of-town tryouts and off-stage dramas to a new musical whose subject is none other than Marilyn Monroe," added reporter Michael J. Fressola in The Staten Island Advance. The St. George Theatre is being used for "generic stage footage," adds The Advance and "as the venue in which a possible "Smash" star is first noticed."
"Today, crews were shooting actress Megan Hilty, who plays a contender for the starring MM role, as she danced and sang in a production number in which performers literally ascend a stairway to heaven. A gleaming, curved staircase had been installed on the theater’s wide stage," added Fressola in The Advance.
Ms. Hilty plays tough Broadway veteran Ivy Lynn. Enter a rival, Karen Cartwright (Katherine McPhee), an innocent Midwesterner dreaming of a shot at Broadway. "Her audition blows everyone away, apparently, and adds conflict, competition and heartbreak to the dramatic possibilities of "Smash," according to Fressola. They say their is a broken heart for every light on Broadway. The new musical "Smash" is giving audiences a look at this cut-throat world, and should help ignite a new enthusiasm by producers in spotlighting Staten Island's own St. George Theatre.
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