The Callback [SEP] series
The Callback
"The Callback" is the second episode of the American television series "Smash". The episode aired on February 13, 2012. It was written by series creator Theresa Rebeck and directed by Michael Mayer, who also directed the pilot.
Plot.
As Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) and Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) both attempt to please Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) in order to win the role of Marilyn, Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and her husband Frank (Brian d'Arcy James
storyline in a realist manner and each had a purpose to them". This is one reason why the series had been described as the "anti-glee".
In the pilot, the song is "belted" by Karen and Ivy "while walking through Times Square on the way to their callback auditions". AfterElton comments that "[they] trade verses as they and the casting panel converge for the callback, finally forming an ersatz duet as they meet outside the building where the callback is being held.