'Bombshell' concert stream will reunite cast of 'Smash'

cast of “Bombshell,” fictional Broway musical about Marilyn Monroe, is coming toger again to aid those confronting coronavirus.

Actors including Katharine McPhee, Debra Messing and Megan Hilty will reunite May 20 to present a stream of one-night-only 2015 Broway concert of musical within TV show “Smash,” Associated Press has learned. It will be seen on People.com, PeopleTV and magazine's Facebook p and Twitter.

"I do remember how exciting it was that night," said McPhee, who went on to star in “Waitress” on Broway. “I have great memories of just being so elated to be re.”

evening will be introduced by two-time Acemy Award winner Renée Zellweger and will involve memories, stories and comments from original cast.

In dition to McPhee, Messing and Hilty, reuniting — and self-isolating — cast includes Christian Borle, Jaime Cepero, Will Chase, Brian d’Arcy James, Jack Davenport, Ann Hara, Jeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus, Leslie Odom Jr., Krysta Rodriguez and Wesley Taylor.

“It’s really just an insight for all people who love show and gives m a chance to kind of relive it with us and hear stories that perhaps y never knew," said McPhee, who was working on Netflix comedy “Country Comfort” when pandemic hit.

In series, Hilty and McPhee played feuding actresses hoping to play Monroe on Broway. Messing and Borle were book-and-song writing team, Davenport was quick-to-scream director, and Huston was feisty le producer. Original songs were written by songwriting team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

“Smash” ended its TV run in 2013 and cast reunited for a one-night only “Bombshell In Concert” at Minskoff ater in front of 1,600 people two years later, which became one of most successful fundraisers ever for

In past seven weeks, Fund has distributed more than $10.1 million in emergency financial assistance — more than five times it rmally provides in a year.

"I think people are going to be really excited when y realize that it’s going to be open to everybody who ever wanted to see it," said McPhee. “It just felt so exciting to be reliving something that we all loved and cherished so much.”

“Smash,” with first-rate songs and a studded cast, is looked back on fondly by many Broway fans. “I think it was a little ahe of its time,” McPhee said. “It was just something that was so different.”