Songs that Safran had intended to use on Smash but did not were incorporated into the show, including "Anymore", "The Guide to Success" and "Haddonfield, 15 Years Later" by Iconis, "Calling Out My Name" by Lucie Silvas, "If I Had You" by Gasparini and "Swim" by McMahon. Completing the cast are Molly Hager, Eric Michael Krop, Julia Mattison, Monet Julia Sabel, and Eric William Morris. Katharine McPhee, whose character Karen Cartwright starred in the fictional Hit List, was unavailable her role of "Amanda" was performed by Carrie Manolakos, who had recorded several demo versions of songs performed on Smash. Smash stars Jeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus and Krysta Rodriguez performed as "Jesse", "Nick" and "The Diva" respectively. The concerts, under the musical direction of Benjamin Rauhala, was presented by Safran and Tepper, with a book written by screenwriter Julia Brownell. Because of the high demand, an additional performance was scheduled for December 8. Tickets for both shows sold out in under an hour. On October 15, 2013, it was announced that Hit List would be staged in concert format at 54 Below for two performances on December 9. Tepper had previously collaborated with Joe Iconis, who wrote "Broadway, Here I Come".
and if I did, I would use some of the songs we never used." Following a performance of the song "Broadway, Here I Come" on Smash, 54 Below artistic director Jennifer Ashley Tepper contacted Safran via the social networking site Twitter. "We all talk about doing a Hit List concert at Joe's Pub, which everyone wants to do. Safran initially expressed interest in staging a real-world version of Hit List during the second season. And the idea that in order to be somebody, you have to pretend to be somebody else." Real-world staging He described Hit List as being about "really deal with the power of fame these days in the music industry or the arts. "So, in a very strange way, those songs actually created Hit List", Safran stated. The first two songs selected for Hit List were "Broadway, Here I Come" and "The Goodbye Song", both by Joe Iconis. Safran wanted the sound of the second musical to completely contrast with that of Bombshell so he turned to rising theater writers. Smash season two showrunner Joshua Safran envisioned Hit List as a "scrappy underdog" to the senior Bombshell, taking inspiration from the 2005 documentary film ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, and from Broadway seasons which saw Wicked head-to-head with Avenue Q and Billy Elliot in competition with Next to Normal. Drew Gasparini, Joe Iconis, Andrew McMahon, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and Lucie Silvas created the material for the fictional musical. Hit List was created for season two of Smash, intended to be a rival production to Bombshell, the Marilyn Monroe biographical musical created for season one.
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