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My Season Premiere of Smash, The Thrilling Conclusion

Part 1

Part 2

SMASH

SEASON 2: EPISODE 1.  

OOOO LA LA!

A TREATMENT

by

Stacey Grenrock Woods and Richard Rushfield

When we last left Smash: 

Julia explains that when she was having the affair with Michael Swift, they had a fight and during that time, she went had an affair with Lucian.  “We have to move theaters!  Call Jerry!  Let’s get started on a new first act.”

Tom tries to put on the breaks, “But wait a minute.  That was a long time ago, at least three months already.  Ancient history who cares - Oh My God, you still love him don’t you!”

Tom, Julia shouts, grabbing his wrist and twisting it - you’ve had those Blondies.

And now…The Thrilling Conclusion of the Season Premiere of Smash!

MEANWHILE

In Indiana,  Dev is despondent…He has come to her father with ten bags of grain to buy Karen’s marriage contract to the widowed farmer, Edsel.  Edsel, Dev learns, had been married to Karen’s aunt who died in childbirth, requiring the family to provide him with another wife.  Karen signed the legally binding document at age 5, promising to marry Edsel and raise his children when she came of age.  But then ran away to Broadway, because, Edsel tells Dev,  Karen was always wild. And singing is illegal in this part of Indiana.

Her parents supported her running away.  Secret singers, they are.  I’ve heard them, Edsel says.  And even though the marriage contract is binding, the fools poisoned her mind with their dreaming nonsense.

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My Season Premiere of Smash, Part 2

(catch up with part 1, plus explanation here.)

SEASON 2: EPISODE 1.  

OOOO LA LA!

A TREATMENT

by

Stacey Grenrock Woods and Richard Rushfield

When we last saw the Gang from Smash….. 

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SMASH! SEASON TWO: EPISODE ONE. A TREATMENT

The winds of Smash’s breathtaking first season still blow strong through us all.   To wait for January for another episode is too much to ask.  And worse still is the fear that NBC will not be able to give us back Smash as we knew it and loved it.

We thus faithfully submit this treatment for the premiere episode of Smash’s second season.  If the Smash staff will just go ahead and use this, we feel confident that it will set them on the right path.

This episode will be presented in three installments over three consecutive evenings here at Rushfield Babylon.  The first begins after this…

SMASH

SEASON 2: EPISODE 1.  

OOOO LA LA!

A TREATMENT

by

Stacey Grenrock Woods and Richard Rushfield

Over a black screen we hear sounds.  Cars honking.  They are taxis.  A man bellows, “Watch it buddy!  Waddya blind?!”
The sounds of a hot dog vendor drizzling relish on a piping hot dog.
An old lady feeding the pigeons in the park, her seed bag crinkling, the seeds crackle when they hit the asphalt..like a thousand tap dancers.
Steam seeps up from the city’s subterranean caverns, with a sinister “HISSSSSS! HISSSSSS!” The sounds of a million secrets lying just below the sidewalks.  The sidewalks of New York.

On the black screen the words flash:

TWO MONTHS LATER

It is three months later.  The screen fills with a shot of Broadway, alive with traffic and tourists and dancers and smoke.

We see a theater and pan up to the marquee.  And there it is. In giant letters

BOMBSHELL

starring Karen Cartwright

(as Marilyn Monroe)

Bombshell has come to Broadway.

The camera moves up past the box office.  A delivery boy in neatly pressed brown uniform opens the door and we slide inside.

In the theater it is pandemonium.

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Marilyn, so many pills!  

Don’t worry Ivy.  Seeing your dreams die only hurts for the rest of your life.

And that ladies and gentlemen, is the story of where art comes from.  

Welcome to the Dream Factory, people.  

KAREN NEEDS TO MAKE A GODDAMN PHONE CALL YOU HYPOCRITICAL SELF-ABSORBED V-NECK SWEATER WEARING BRITISH TWIT!  WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT!

Julia!  Is this really happening!?   

What happened to our lives!??!  What happened to us!!?

During the hiatus, I am so not going to miss this b- yelling at us.

Goodbye Linda. And good riddance!

My God she is Marilyn! Down to the tiniest eyelash.  Just take away Marilyn’s vulnerability, sex appeal, dementia and humor and Karen IS MARILYN MONROE to a tee.