NewsPHOTO CALL: New Stills of Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez, Jennifer Hudson, Harvey Fierstein and More on "Smash" Season TwoThe second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash" will begin Feb. 5, 2013. Here is a further look at the upcoming season, which will welcome a slew of newcomers to the series.
By
Matthew Blank
January 16, 2013
Jeremy Jordan, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for Newsies, will play a Brooklyn-born singer and the new love-interest of Karen (Katharine McPhee); Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls") will have a multi-episode arc as a Tony Award-winning Broadway diva.
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New Stills of Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez, Jennifer Hudson, Harvey Fierstein and More on "Smash" Season Two
For the series' second season, Josh Safran succeeds Theresa Rebeck (Seminar) as showrunner — the person in charge of all aspects of the story. Tony Award winners Shaiman and Wittman, and Tony nominees Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are among the show's executive producers.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.