'Smash': As well as the Marilyn Role Visits...

[Warning: This story includes spoilers from Monday's "Callbacks" episode of Smash.] Pitting the woman nearby facing the Broadway veteran, NBC's "Smash" crowned its Lana Turner throughout Monday's "Callbacks" episode, with Megan Hilty's Ivy acquiring the pivotal role inside the play at the center of the musical drama.Inside the hour, Ivy was given similar conditions the morally upstanding Karen (Katharine McPhee) faced inside the premiere when, within a work out, Derek (Jack Davenport) developed a proceed the longtime ensemble player. After fighting more than 10 years, Ivy chosen not to shun his advances and rather put her career first and rested with him.Precisely how close was Karen to landing the part? Very close, it calculates. Inside an early draft in the 70-page "Smash" pilot -- which creator Theresa Rebeck cut 20 pages from since it developed when the project moved from Showtime to NBC -- the newcomer eventually ends up landing the coveted role."Round the pilot, we actually had Team Ivy and Team Karen people round the set saying, 'I think Ivy must have it,A and 'I think Karen must have it,AInch Rebeck notifies "The Hollywood Reporter." "Therefore I visited [executive producers] Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman which i mentioned, 'Let's starting point.A I used to be writing Episode 2 and asked for, 'Would you really take this seriously? For your first workshop from the brand-new musical, are you able to make it for her?'"Shaiman and Wittman both mentioned the identical factor: that Karen was pretty eco-friendly if the found Broadway experience. Ironically, the duo were staring at the identical factor if the found casting the Broadway output of "Catch Me If You are Able ToInch lead with Aaron Tveit, who, Rebeck recalls, they mentioned was too eco-friendly in those days to star inside the production."That's really -- literally -- what you should use anyone who has no training but can be a apparent tremendous talent," Rebeck states. "You place them within the ensemble and season them. Making this where we're going."Which is exactly what went lower with Tveit, who ultimately showed up charge in "Catch Me."Even though it appears that McPhee's Karen is ensemble-bound, that doesn't signify "Smash's" Marilyn will stay through the show's 15-episode run, considering Ivy's early inappropriate behavior with Derek as well as the high-profile role."I've done a number of these courses and reading through through and there's no such factor as job stability," Broadway veteran Hilty ("Wicked") states. "You might be transformed in the heartbeat plus it sets the stakes over the top and makes people behave in manners they'd not normally behave."Because the workshop role is Ivy's, it's anyone's guess whether it's a component she'll keep, particularly with Karen likely landing inside the ensemble. The Two-way race could likely expand to include another when Uma Thurman involves play a famous and difficult celebrity tease with the idea of starring inside the production."The casting of Marilyn [revealed in Episode 2] is probably not who it's within the finish of the year,In . NBC Entertainment leader Robert Greenblatt told reporters at January's Television Experts Association's winter press tour.What can you consider Ivy as Marilyn? Who'd you finally need to see star in "Marilyn"? Smash airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on NBC. The Hollywood Reporter