Rewrite This Story

"Rewrite This Story" is an original song introduced in the seventh episode of the second season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "Musical Chairs". It was written by Pasek and Paul,^[1] but within the show's universe, it was written by songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) for their Hit List musical.

In the episode, Scott Welker (Jesse L. Martin), the director of the Manhattan Theater Workshop, and choreographer and director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) are trying to convince Jimmy and Kyle to come up with a new beginning or perhaps a narrator for Hit List to better explain what the show is about to help audience members since it is currently all singing and no spoken dialogue. Otherwise, the show will be relegated to a much smaller performance area than the main stage. Jimmy is resistant to compromising his work, but after some discussion with others, including Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee), who makes some suggestions, Jimmy and Kyle come up with this song, which is then performed as the new opening by Jimmy and Karen (with Derek imagining them performing in front of huge video screens and a lot of spotlights) in front of Scott and his team at the workshop. Scott later tells the Hit List team that his people liked what they saw and Hit List can now be performed on the bigger stage.

References

External links

• "Musical Chairs" at the Internet Movie Database

Smash
Episodes	Season 1 "Pilot" "The Callback" "Enter Mr. DiMaggio" "The Cost of Art" "Let's Be Bad" "Chemistry" "The Workshop" "The Coup" "Hell on Earth" "Understudy" "The Movie Star" "Publicity" "Tech" "Previews" "Bombshell" Season 2 "On Broadway" "The Fallout" "The Dramaturg" "The Song" "The Read-Through" "The Fringe" "Musical Chairs" "The Bells and Whistles" "The Parents" "The Surprise Party" "The Dress Rehearsal" "Opening Night" "The Producers" "The Phenomenon" "The Transfer" "The Nominations" "The Tonys"
Music albums	The Music of Smash Bombshell
Original songs	"Never Give All the Heart" "The National Pastime" "Let Me Be Your Star" "The 20th Century Fox Mambo" "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" "History Is Made at Night" "I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl" "Let's Be Bad" "On Lexington & 52nd Street" "Touch Me" "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" "Dig Deep" "A Thousand and One Nights" "Second Hand White Baby Grand" "Smash!" "Don't Forget Me" "I Can't Let Go" "Heart Shaped Wreckage" "Rewrite This Story" "I Heard Your Voice In a Dream"
Other	Smash (novel) Bombshell (musical) Hit List (musical) Characters
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