Katharine McPhee Joins NBC Musical Pilot - SMASH!
Now, Deadline.com is reporting that American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee will play a beautiful struggling actress who goes to all lengths including sexual favors for the producer to book the role of Marilyn Monroe in the musical. Also recently cast in the pilot, written by Theresa Rebeck and to be directed by Michael Mayer, are Jack Davenport and Megan Hilty. McPhee, repped by Gersh and the Schiff Co., made her T…