Smash

Smash is about a very talented girl named Karen. She is a really good singer and actor and she wants to make it in Broadway. She finds a play Marilyn Monroe, American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol. The play's songs are written by Julia, a married woman with a son who has a affair with Michel and they a composed by Tom, a gay man who is in love with a Republican lawyer, John. The play is directed by Derek, a grumpy man who has an on and off relationship with the star of the show, the woman who plays Marilyn Monroe, Ivy. Ivy is a talented girl who resembles Marilyn a little and who is put under a lot of pressure from the show and Derek.