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Season five “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee has joined the cast of NBC pilot “Smash,” reported Deadline on Sunday.<\/p>\n

McPhee, who appeared in “The House Bunny” and television pilot “The Pink House” after her time on the reality competition, joins the cast of the musical drama as a “beautiful, struggling” actress vying for the role of Marilyn Monroe in the show’s central musical.<\/p>\n

From Steven Spielberg, “Smash,” certainly benefiting from the success of FOX’s “Glee,” follows a cast of characters involved in the production of that aforementioned Marilyn Monroe Broadway musical. \u00a0Debra Messing has already been cast as the play-within-the-show’s lyricist, while Jack Davenport plays the choreographer. \u00a0Megan Hilty has also been cast.<\/p>\n

Michael Mayer directs from a Theresa Rebeck script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,52,68,98,110,111,139,158],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nKatharine McPhee Joins NBC's "Glee"-Like Pilot "Smash"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Season five "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee has joined the cast of NBC pilot "Smash," reported Deadline on Sunday. 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