Smash

• NBCs Smash is looking like it might not be. The ambitious ensemble drama about the making of a Broadway musical on Marilyn Monroe lost a quarter of its audience between its debut last week and this Monday night.
(New York Daily News)
• Hello, you wild Magnolias.
(Los Angeles Times)
• As an East Coast experimental playwright, Im often faced with disbelief when I tell my peers that I landed a staff job on NBCs new series Smash.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Well that was quick. In the second episode of Smash, Ivy Lynn lands the role of Marilyn. Her years of hard work, perseverance and dedication finally pay off when sleeps with the director. Yes, we know, so cliché.
(Baltimore Sun)
• Blind auditions continue to be big business for NBCs The Voice in episode three. The singing competition earned a 5.9 among adults 18-49 during its 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. block last night.
(Hollywood Reporter)
• Smash, the new NBC drama from executive producer Steven Spielberg, is like a good version of Glee. The talent pool is deeper and richer, its full of characters who are actually likeable, the story is more mature and its more realistic.
(Gateway)
• ON the Staten Island set of NBC's new musical drama "Smash" it was easy to miss the choreographer Joshua Bergasse amid the hubbub in the St. George Theater.
(New York Times)
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• Pittsburgh Police are investigating a smash and grab burglary at a jewelry store in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Investigators tell Channel 4 Action News a man broke into Forbes Jewelry at the corner of Shady and Forbes Avenues.
(msnbc.com)