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"The 20th Century Fox Mambo" is an original song introduced in the second episode of the first season of the musical TV series ''Smash'', entitled "The Callback". 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 team Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) for their Marilyn Monroe musical ''Bombshell''. In "The Callback" episode, Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) needs to give a dance audition for the producing team as part of trying to get the role of Marilyn in ''Bombshell''. She works with director and choreographer Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) and then performs this song with the ensemble members in front of the producing team. The song is reprised several more times during the first season. It is performed by Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) in the fourth episode "The Cost of Art", by Karen and Ivy separately in the seventh episode "The Workshop, and by Karen in the fifteenth episode "Bombshell" The song, with McPhee's vocals, was originally released as a single on iTunes and Amazon.com's MP3 store and is currently available on the cast albums The Music of Smash and Bombshell. ==Production== JJ of TV Is My Pacifier describes the song's importance to the plot in The Callback, "For (and Karen's ) audition, Derek choreographed a dance to “20th Century Fox Mambo,” and we focus mostly on Karen having a hard time with the choreography....When Friday’s final callback finally arrives, Ivy and Karen are both nervously waiting to go in and audition. When Tom and a few backup dancers go sit with Ivy to support her, Julia turns to Karen and offers her some supportive words. We () get to see the complete staged version of “20th Century Fox Mambo” performed by Karen." Noel Murray of The AV Club says "sfter Karen gives her big dance audition to “The 20th Century Fox Mambo”...the Marilyn creative team indicates that she nailed it". Scott Brown of Vulture says "the conceit of the song is: Norma J's, in for a Fox screen test in the mid-forties, has been asked to foxtrot, but she breaks into a mambo instead". Brown notes that the song is "the only totally realized original this episode", and theorised that "the weekly pattern's looking like this: one fleshed-out original song, one partly realized original song or reprise, and two big covers".〔 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「The 20th Century Fox Mambo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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