![]() ![]() ![]() How much can you tell us about what’s in store for Jimmy this season? Actually, my favorite Italian restaurant is called Trecolori-it’s where I had my first date with my wife. There’s also a great burger join on West 41 st called The Counter. There’s a place called Schnipper’s on West 41 st Street that was my favorite place when I was in Newsies. What’s your own favorite pre- or –post-show spot? When the audience meets Jimmy, he’s working as a waiter at a theater district canteen. Most of the time, people are incredibly sweet and you learn that it’s one of the reason they are who they are nobody wants to work with someone who’s awful. The thing I’ve learned from being in the room with icons is to see their humanity and humbleness. People want this show to succeed, especially a show that glorifies the theater scene. Pretty much everyone they ask to be on the show says yes. Season two has an impressive roster of guest stars. And he’s the kind of person who’s only likely to change if something horrible happens. You’ll find it it’s been worse in the past, and it might get worse again. He’s gone down lots of paths in his life and when we meet him, he’s actually in a pretty decent place. What kind of advice would you give to a talented, young striver who was drinking and drugging the way he is?įor a person like Jimmy, you can’t just give him a talking to. But I started to get into theater and performing, and that’s when I started to come out of my shell. I was very quiet I would look down a lot. I was probably one of the shyest people ever growing up I would hide behind my mom if we were going to my grandmother’s house, where we went twice a week. Your character on Smash, Jimmy, is reluctant to share his talent. Film and television you do everything out of order, your character changes and you don’t have the final word-after your last take, it’s in somebody else’s hands. In theater, you’re performing live and doing an entire show straight through for a live audience and everything you do is done when it’s done. What’s the difference for you between working on Broadway and working on a TV show about Broadway? There’s stuff you can’t show on network television. Is the theater world really as dramatic as it seems on TV? The problem people have had is that the show has to streamline things because it’s a long, time-consuming process to get a show to Broadway and that doesn’t really make for great television. And in terms of generally showing how a show forms, it’s pretty accurate. That’s really what I connected to the most. There are many things that are accurate for me it’s the little things, like the traditions shows have or what goes on back stage. How true to life do the twists and turns on the show feel? A lot of people really wanted to see how things would be depicted and whether we could relate to them. It’s about us, it’s about our world, and there hasn’t been anything out there like that before-at least not like a mainstream television show you can follow. I would say 95% of working actors, especially on Broadway, watch the show. ![]() We spoke to Jordan about Jimmy, whether Broadway is truly how it seems on TV and the best place for a post-show burger.Īs a Broadway actor, how familiar were you with Smash before you took a role on the show? ![]() Thanks to a chance encounter with Katharine McPhee’s Karen, Jimmy gets his opportunity, but it won’t come without a few bumps in the road. The 28-year-old actor, who’s got plenty of Broadway experience thanks to leading roles in Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde, plays Jimmy, a talented, troubled waiter hoping to make it big as a songwriter. (See for yourself with a video of him performing “A New Sound” below and the first hour of the new season at the bottom of this page.) Martin and Liza Minnelli will make turns on the show, the most intriguing new face on the show might be Jeremy Jordan’s. And while stars like Jennifer Hudson, Jesse L. A slew of new characters will be popping up around the troubled, fictional production of Bombshell, which follows the life of Marilyn Monroe. 5, there will be more than just new songs to catch the audience’s attention. When Smash, the addictively soapy NBC series about a Broadway-bound musical, comes back for its second season Feb. ![]()
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