Smash (TV Series)

Musical Chairs (2013)

Christian Borle: Tom Levitt

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• Tom Levitt : [new director]  Okay, here she is, Marilyn the star, showing up for work on Some Like It Hot. Walking onto the set for the first time. Very Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It.

  Karen Cartwright : Really? I don't see it that way at all.

  Tom Levitt : You don't see...? Never mind.

  [dismissive gesture] 

  Tom Levitt : Anyway, uh, what I'm going for is... "To hell with all of you, I'm here!"

  Karen Cartwright : But isn't this when things were going terribly wrong for her? Everyone on set hated her. I mean, she was... hiding out in her trailer, popping pills.

  Tom Levitt : Yeah! But... we don't wanna telegraph that. So she's putting on a... brave face.

  Karen Cartwright : So... when she says, "Here she is, boys, Marilyn Monroe in the flesh", she's... up?"

  Tom Levitt : Trying to be. Like...

  [inhaling, then delivers line breathlessly:] 

  Tom Levitt : "Here she is, boys, Marilyn Monroe in the flesh."

  Bobby : [to Jessica]  Did he just give her a line reading?

  Karen Cartwright : Derek used to say...

  Tom Levitt : Derek isn't here anymore.

  Karen Cartwright : [wistfully]  Yeah, I know.