Previews (''Smash'')

"Previews"
Smash episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 14
Directed by	Robert Duncan McNeill
Written by	David Marshall Grant
Featured music	"Let Me Be Your Star" "The 20th Century Fox Mambo" "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" "Smash!" "Secondhand White Baby Grand (reprise)" "September Song" "Stand"
Original air date	May 7, 2012 (2012-05-07)
Guest appearance(s)
Uma Thurman as Rebecca Duvall Leslie Odom, Jr. as Sam Strickland Will Chase as Michael Swift Thorsten Kaye as Nick Emory Cohen as Leo Houston Sean Dugan as Randall Jones Isiah Whitlock, Jr. as Ronald Strickland Marc Kudisch as Darryl F. Zanuck Hinton Battle as Preacher

"Previews" is the fourteenth episode of the American television series, Smash. The episode aired on May 7, 2012.

Plot

It is opening day of the previews, and there are lots of kinks to work out.

Ivy (Megan Hilty) wakes up next to Dev (Raza Jaffrey). After the first performance, Karen (Katharine McPhee) introduces Dev to Ivy, and both pretend not to know each other. Dev and Karen make up, and Karen accepts Dev's re-proposal.

Michael Swift (Will Chase) is back, and Julia (Debra Messing) refuses to talk to Tom (Christian Borle) for selling her out. When Michael tries to kiss Julia and gets rejected, Julia confronts Tom and comes to the realization that the two aren't really a team. Sam (Leslie Odom, Jr.) takes Tom and the rest of the company to church. Julia and Tom finally make up after going to church.

At the end of the show, Marilyn dies, and no one claps. Tom, Julia, Derek (Jack Davenport), and Eileen (Anjelica Huston) struggle to figure out a new ending that will end in applause. Rebecca (Uma Thurman) shares her worries about the lack of applause to Karen, and then has her throat close up due to an allergic reaction to peanuts in her smoothie. While Rebecca is in the hospital recovering, there's a chance for both Karen and Ivy to fill in as Marilyn, and for everyone else to speculate who poisoned Rebecca. After she recovers, Rebecca decides she's too scared to continue with the show.

Production

The show's songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman made cameo appearances as the restaurant pianist who accompanies Eileen on "September Song" and a bar patron respectively.

Reception

Critical reception

The A.V. Club gave the episode a B- rating, praising the episode's authentic depiction of an out-of-town preview, but ultimately commenting: "There’s no perspective here on anything, no sense that anyone involved in the show is trying to give us more than a cursory view of a world most of us are unfamiliar with, which makes you wonder, just what the hell the point of all this is."^[1]

Ratings

"Previews" was watched by 5.72 million viewers and received a 1.8 rating and a 5 share among adults 18-49.^[2]

References

↑ ""Smash: Previews" S1 / E14". Retrieved May 9, 2012.
↑ Kondolojy, Amanda (May 8, 2012). "Monday Final Ratings: 'DWTS', 'Two and a Half Men', 'The Voice', and '2 Broke Girls' Adjusted Up; 'Castle' and 'Smash' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 9, 2012.

Smash

Episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "The Callback" "Enter Mr. DiMaggio" "The Cost of Art" "Let's Be Bad" "Chemistry" "The Workshop" "The Coup" "Hell on Earth" "Understudy" "The Movie Star" "Publicity" "Tech" "Previews" "Bombshell"
Season 2	"On Broadway" "The Fallout" "The Dramaturg" "The Song" "The Read-Through" "The Fringe" "Musical Chairs" "The Bells and Whistles" "The Parents" "The Surprise Party" "The Dress Rehearsal" "Opening Night" "The Producers" "The Phenomenon" "The Transfer" "The Nominations" "The Tonys"

Music albums

The Music of Smash
Bombshell

Original songs

"Never Give All the Heart"
"The National Pastime"
"Let Me Be Your Star"
"The 20th Century Fox Mambo"
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
"History Is Made at Night"
"I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl"
"Let's Be Bad"
"On Lexington & 52nd Street"
"Touch Me"
"Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking"
"Dig Deep"
"A Thousand and One Nights"
"Second Hand White Baby Grand"
"Smash!"
"Don't Forget Me"
"I Can't Let Go"
"Heart Shaped Wreckage"
"Rewrite This Story"
"I Heard Your Voice In a Dream"

Other

Category

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