In the second season, the show was split between taking Bombshell to Broadway and the creation and mounting of a contemporary pop musical called Hit List that was about the price of fame.
In the second season, the song is reprised in the thirteenth episode "The Producers" by Ivy and the Bombshell ensemble, with a little assist from Kathie Lee Gifford in a cameo, for some musical theater children.
"A Love Letter from the Times" is an original song introduced in the tenth episode of the second season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Surprise Party".
In the episode, Tom recruits Liza Minnelli (playing herself) to sing this song with him to Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) during their dinner together as a surprise for her birthday to make up for their fighting over him hiring her mother for Bombshell.
In the episode, Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and her boyfriend Dev (Raza Jaffrey) are having a tense dinner with movie star Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) at an Indian restaurant.
"Arthur Miller Melody" is an original song introduced in the ninth episode of the first season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "Hell on Earth".
In the show's universe it was written by songwriters Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) for their Bombshell musical about Marilyn Monroe.
[2] Within the show's universe, it was written by the songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) for their Hit List musical.
[4] Within the show's universe, it was written by songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) as part of the Hit List musical they are working on.
During the show, Terry and the ensemble launch into a ribald version of this song, which ends up getting big laughs from the audience (which includes Bombshell's Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Hit List's Derek Wills (Jack Davenport), Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus)).
Within the show's universe, it was written by the songwriting team Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) for the Bombshell musical they are working on about Marilyn Monroe.
The setting has Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) as Marilyn and the male members of ensemble of Bombshell performing the song on the final night of the musical's previews in Boston.
Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) reprises the song in the eleventh episode of season 2, entitled "The Dress Rehearsal", as part of Broadway previews for Bombshell.
[10] Within the show's universe, it was written by the songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) for their Hit List Musical.
[13] "The Higher You Get, the Farther the Fall" is an original song introduced in the ninth episode of the first season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "Hell on Earth".
"History is Made at Night" is an original song introduced in the fourth episode of the first season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Cost of Art".
Within the show's universe, it was written by songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) for their musical Hit List.
In the episode, Broadway star Veronica Moore (Jennifer Hudson) is rehearsing for a one night only concert with the help of Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) and struggling to figure out the direction that it should take.
[14] "I Heard Your Voice In a Dream" is an original song introduced in the eighth episode of the second season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Bells and Whistles".
"I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl" is an original song introduced in the fourth episode of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Cost of Art".
[18] "(Let's Start) Tomorrow Tonight" is an original song introduced in the eighth episode of the second season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Bells and Whistles".
In the episode, the setting has Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Derek Wills (Jack Davenport attending a performance of Beautiful as two-time Tony winner Veronica sings with an ensemble as her character in the musical has to deal with an interfering mother.
Noelle Murray of AVClub.com said of the number, "A brief glimpse at the Broadway show Beautiful—starring Veronica “Ronnie” Moore (Jennifer Hudson) as an Etta James-type R&B belter with an overbearing mother—brings the rollicking “Mama Makes Three.”"[7] "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" is an original song introduced in the third episode of the first season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "Enter Mr. DiMaggio".
In the episode, the setting has Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) and Michael Swift (Will Chase) recording the song in a recording studio, while the show cuts away to a fantasy of Lynn and Swift as Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio singing the song as a ballad in front of an idealized version of a little house with a white picket fence and their desire to be a normal couple without fame.
The song was originally released as a single on iTunes and Amazon.com's MP3 story and is a track on the cast albums The Music of Smash and Bombshell, with the Hilty and Chase version for the vocals.
Within the show's universe, it was written by songwriting team Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) for their Bombshell musical about Marilyn Monroe.
Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) reprises the song with Simon in the eleventh episode of season 2, "The Dress Rehearsal" as part of Broadway previews for Bombshell.
In the episode, Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) and the female members of the ensemble perform the song with the actor playing studio head Darryl F. Zanuck (Marc Kudisch) during a Boston preview of Bombshell.
Within the show's fictional setting, it was written by the songwriting team Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) for the Bombshell musical they are working on about Marilyn Monroe.
In the episode, as part of their celebration of the tenth anniversary of their work partnership, Tom and Julia find a high school production of the musical and watch it from the audience.