Special Guest Stars

Bernadette Peters As Leigh Conroy Recurring	Nick Jonas As Lyle West Recurring

Guest Stars

Emory Cohen As Leo Recurring	Leslie Odom, Jr. As Sam Strickland Recurring
Michael Cristofer As Jerry Rand Recurring	Thorsten Kaye As Nick Recurring
Will Chase (1) As Michael Recurring

Main Cast

Debra Messing As Julia Houston	Jack Davenport As Derek Wills
Katharine McPhee As Karen Cartwright	Christian Borle As Tom Levitt
Megan Hilty As Ivy Lynn	Anjelica Huston As Eileen Rand
Raza Jaffrey As Dev Sundaram	Brian d'Arcy James As Frank Houston
Jaime Cepero As Ellis Boyd

Recap

The episode begins, with Julia and Tom doing their best to come up with the new song for the ending of the show, before the show goes live. Meanwhile, the new Marilyn is walking to the stage with everyone wishing her luck; her face in the meanwhile isn’t revealed yet. The curtains then rise with the audience applauding loudly. The episode then flashes back to 12 hours earlier. Julia, Derek, Eileen and Tom are show panicking about who would be their new Marilyn, now that Rebecca has opted out of the show. Derek then storms out in anger, as the four of them aren’t able to come to a consensus. Eileen meanwhile tells the newspapers that, they have a new Marilyn but are not yet ready to release her name. ..

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