When theater director Andy Wiginton first saw the pilot of ?Smash,? he immediately recognized the look on the faces of the men and women waiting on folding chairs at an audition. ?I remember going on those cattle calls,? said Wiginton, a former actor who lives in New York while he finishes his PhD dissertation for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?That was familiar, the nerves, the faces. I don?t think those actors had to play very much. All of that felt very real to me.?
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