Great news Megan fans!

And now for some rather Smash-ing news: Megan Hilty has landed a series regular role opposite her former Smash co-star Sean Hayes in his new NBC comedy Sean Saves the World, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Hilty will play Liz, the BFF and co-worker of Hayes’ character — the role originally portrayed by Lindsay Sloane, who left the project shortly after it was greenlit by NBC.
The multi-cam sitcom, which will air Thursdays at 9/8c, finds Hayes attempting to both parent the teenage daughter who just moved in and appease a temperamental new boss. (Watch the trailer.) The cast also includes Linda Lavin (Alice), Echo Kellum (Ben and Kate), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Samantha Isler and Vik Sahay (Chuck).
On Smash, Hayes played a powerful but neurotic Hollywood star whose broad comic performance threatened (and eventually doomed) a Broadway musical version of Dangerous Liaisons. Hilty’s Ivy Lynn proved to be the sole cast member who could give Hayes’ flighty stae the completely unfiltered feedback he needed — leading to a bond that was occasionally sweet and very frequently zany.

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Last night Megan got to attend and perform at the 67th Annual Tony Awards. She did an amazing job performing! Way to go Megan. I have added photos from last night to the gallery.

Appearances: 2013: June 9 – The 67th Annual Tony Awards

Smash alum Megan Hilty, Glee star Matthew Morrison, five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and more Broadway favorites have joined the roster of star-studded presenters at the 2013 Tony Awards ceremony. Additionally, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will appear on the telecast to receive a special Tony Award, according to The New York Post. Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, the Tony Awards will be broadcast live June 9 on CBS from New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.

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Megan Hilty’s professional career began on the stage – her Broadway debut was Glinda to Idina Menzel’s Elphaba in Wicked – and has since transitioned to the small screen on NBC’s musical drama Smash to her recently released solo album, It Happens All the Time (available in stores and on iTunes). She’ll be returning to the stage at Austin’s Zach Theatre on June 18 (shows at 7:00pm and 9:30pm), and she graciously took time to speak with BroadwayWorld to discuss her album, Smash, her upcoming concerts, and what’s next for Megan Hilty.

You were in Austin relatively recently – what brought you to Texas?

I was! The producer of my album, It Happens All the Time, lives in Austin and so last summer I came down three or four times for an extended period of time and stayed in a hotel and would go work in the studio all day and go listen to music at night. Well, really, most importantly, I’d go to all the amazing restaurants there. I’m going to have to revisit all of them in the 48 hours that I’m there.

What spurred your decision to release a solo album?

It’s something that I always wanted to do but didn’t know what my voice was or what my sound would be. I always felt like I didn’t have anything to say, so why make an album? And I never wanted to make just an album with all the musical theatre songs I knew – that wasn’t appealing to me. We originally started out with a totally different concept – it was going to be all covers of top songs from soundtracks, and then Columbia started sending down all these originals for us to try out and so many of them worked out that we just we abandoned that original concept. It sort of turned into a break-up album, without us ever intending it to.

If someone had asked you 10 years ago where you thought you would be today, would it have been anything like your reality?

No! I would have told you the exact same thing that I would tell you now if you asked me what I’ll be doing in 10 years: I want to be working, and that is it. I would have never imagined this, quite frankly, but I’m happy that I’m actually working.

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