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THE MAKING OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC Behind The Scenes Special Airs 11/27 – A new hour-long special tracing the casting, rehearsals, soundtrack recording and overall production of NBC’s upcoming live telecast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic family-friendly musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC is now set to air a week before the live telecast itself. THE MAKING OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC will air on November 27 at 8 PM on NBC. – Read more at Broadway World
Julianne Hough Blackface: Crazy Eyes Actress Breaks Silence About Controversial Orange Is the New Black Costume – Uzo Aduba isn’t holding any sort of grudge against Julianne Hough for doing blackface when she dressed up as her Orange Is the New Black character Crazy Eyes for Halloween. “I think maybe it was an unfortunate event, but she apologized and I feel like we can all move on,” Aduba told me earlier today when she stopped by E! News to promote the hit Netflix series. – Read more at EOnline
Kat Robichaud’s ‘The Voice’ exit Q&A: ‘I know it’s not the end for me’ – When we caught up with coach Cee Lo Green’s glam rockette Kat Robichaud, who was one of two contestants eliminated on Tuesday’s episode of The Voice, she was just as feisty on the phone as she was on stage. She high-kicked, snarled, and crowd-surfed her way to make it to the top ten, in no small part due to her production team. “They’ve never once told me, ‘No, we can’t do that,’” she said. As the first winner of the Twitter instant save, Robichaud wasn’t bitter that she wasn’t saved again by voters. “I know it’s not the end for me. The whole friggin’ reason I went on this show is to better my career. So this is the jumping-off point.” – Read more at Entertainment Weekly
The Voice’s Jonny Gray Talks Beatles, ‘Message’ Music and the Girl-Group Jam He Almost Covered – You might not have noticed it at the time, but Jonny Gray‘s collected Season 5 performances on The Voice doubled as a journey through rock-music history. “What was cool about my time on the show is that I got to hit every era of music: I did the 2000s with The Killers, I did the ’70s with Petty, I did the ’60s with The Beatles, I did the ’90s with The Verve and then I finished it off in the ’80s with Phil Collins. I hit the last 50 years of music!” If I would have stayed another week, I was going to do The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” actually, but modernize it a little bit. I might put that cover up on YouTube. That’s a cool song. – Read more at TVLine
Fantasia Improvises Twerk Song
Jennifer Hudson Has Harsh Words For ‘American Idol’ On ‘Watch What Happens: Live’ (VIDEO) – “I love you Simon [Cowell], but I’m not signing for you,” Hudson said. “When I was eliminated from the show and I told them, I was like, ‘I will be back. I don’t know when, I don’t know how, I don’t know where. But I will be back.’ And I recall the producers laughing, and here I am.” When Andy Cohen asked her about those rumors that she might join fellow alums Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert at the judges’ table this season, Hudson hinted that she’d been approached, but turned them down. – Read more at the Huffington Post
‘Idol’ Alum James Durbin: ‘Happy To Be Writing Kick-Ass Songs with Kick-Ass People’ (Q&A) – Tell us about writing the other songs on the new album — who else you wrote with, how some of the songs came about, what were your inspirations… I can’t tell you all my secrets [Laughs]. There were a lot of great sessions and then there were the amazing sessions! The majority of the record came about writing with the intergalactic Ted Bruner and my producer Scott “The Ninja” Stevens, respectively. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
The Top 10 Describe Their Dreams! – THE X FACTOR USA 2013
Niall Horan Talks Shutterbug Scare at LAX After Being “Dragged to the Floor” by Paps—Watch Now! – “We came out of this exit and there was, like, loads of paps,” the Irish hunk shares. “Like 50, 60 paps and the fans were behind them so obviously we wanted to stop and see the fans because we haven’t been to L.A. for a while.” That is, until the photogs and the fans collided, causing major chaos in the terminal. “They just started getting really aggressive…they started pushing each other, which meant we got pushed,” he says. “Then someone pushed me and dragged me to the floor.” – Read more at EOnline
