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"Let Me Be Your Star" is an original song introduced in the first episode of the first season of the musical TV series ''Smash'', entitled Pilot. It was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman,〔(ASCAP Database Music Search - Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman songs )〕 but in the show's universe, it was written by songwriting duo Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) for the Marilyn Monroe musical they are working on, ''Bombshell''. In the first episode, the song is performed by characters Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) as they each prepare for and then audition for the role of Marilyn in front the production team. The song has since been reprised numerous times in various episodes, both as solos and duets. For the first season, it was also sung by Karen and Ivy in the second episode "The Callback" and the seventh episode "The Workshop", by Ivy in the sixth episode "Chemistry", and by Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) in the eleventh episode "The Movie Star" and the fourteenth episode "Previews". In the second season, it was reprised by Karen and several female members of the ''Bombshell'' ensemble in the first episode "On Broadway", and by Ivy in the eighth episode "The Bells and Whistles" and the eleventh episode "The Dress Rehearsal". The song was originally released as a single to digital music retailers and is available on the cast albums ''The Music of Smash'' and ''Bombshell'' (the latter with an extended intro not heard on the show), with McPhee and Hilty's vocals from the "Pilot" episode. The song has sold 48,000 digital downloads as of April 13, 2012. ==Production== Scott Wittman explained that they received notes on "Let Me Be Your Star" by NBC Entertainment President Bob Greenblatt. Greenblatt, who was nicknamed "Mr Freed" after the MGM producer of "Singin' in the Rain" and "Meet Me in St. Louis" said to the writing duo that "this has to be more universal in its story. It has to be about people who want something and fight for it." The song fulfilled the writers' desire "to try and make each song somehow mirror what was going on in the episode." The song makes contextual sense in regards to the lives of both auditionees, and Marilyn Monroe herself.〔 "Let Me Be Your Star", along with other pilot songs "The National Pastime" and "Beautiful", "fit into the storyline in a realist manner and each had a purpose to them". This is one reason why the series had been described as the "anti-glee". In the pilot, the song is "belted" by Karen and Ivy "while walking through Times Square on the way to their callback auditions". AfterElton comments that "() trade verses as they and the casting panel converge for the callback, finally forming an ersatz duet as they meet outside the building where the callback is being held."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Smash" Series Premiere: "Let Me Be Your Star!" )〕 Vulture describes the song as a "propulsive non-diagetic duet/duel". Yvonne Villarreal of the Los Angeles Times describes the song as a "sweeping duet battle".〔 Scott Brown describes the song's reprise in the second episode, "The Callback", as "(and Ivy ) standing center stage 'in a pool of light'...around her, phantom blondes spit spoken torments between the musical phrases". In the seventh episode "The Workshop", Ivy sings "Let Me Be Your Star" at the musical workshop "while the musical’s creators and other observers look on". In the eleventh episode "The Movie Star", Rebecca Duvall performs the song in a "breathy, ‘Marilyn’ voice". Roxanne Tellier of starpulse.com comments that "it’s really more talking than singing, and flat to boot". She describes the scene that the song taken place in as follows: "The production team looks at her and each other in shock. Derek cuts her off mid-note, and suggests they start working on blocking the scene. Tom and Julia tell Rebecca that she was ‘great’". This sing-speak version of the song causes Julia to tongue-in-cheekly suggest "group suicide" as the next step in workshopping. In the fifteenth episode "Bombshell", the final chorus of the musical's new finale, "Don't Forget Me", segues into the concluding lyrics "And please let me be, let me be that star". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Let Me Be Your Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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