Jennifer Hudson! The Tony Awards! A new (straight) male character! All that and more are subject to Mitch and Jess’s approval in this iteration of Smash Chat!

• We start of the show by analyzing the story arc of Karen in season 1.
• Karen has a surprising 3/4’s lead over Ivy on Smash’s facebook’s poll as to whom should play Marilyn, based solely off of 1×02 “Callbacks.”
• Will Karen finally gain the guts she needs after ditching Dev next season?
• American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson was announced as having a multiple episode arc in season 2.
• Our first cast member out of the three new characters has been revealed: “Newsies” star Jeremy Jordan will play Danny!
• Christian Borel, the actor for Tom, won a Tony for his role of Black Stache in “Peter and the Starcatcher”! List of other nominees and winners
• We have a few awesome responses from the Smash production team on why we have to wait until early 2013 for season 2.
• It was revealed that Karen was meant to win the role of Marilyn in an early draft of the pilot.
• We read off a few tweets from our lovely and adoring fans!

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