Tonight, Allison Williams, Christopher Walken and Christian Borle star in Peter Pan Live! at 8/7c PM on NBC. I, for one, will not be hate watching…
DARREN CRISS JOINS THE LINEUP OF FEATURED PERFORMERS IN “BACKSTAGE WITH DISNEY ON BROADWAY: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS” – Darren Criss joins the celebration of Disney Theatrical Productions’ 20 years on Broadway, the ABC Television Network will air “Backstage with Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years,” SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 at 7:00 p.m., ET. As previously announced, the special will be hosted by Broadway veteran Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of ABC’s Modern Family, and feature musical performances from Sir Elton John, Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen (ABC’s “Nashville”), Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins”) and Adam Jacobs (“Aladdin”). Multi-talented entertainers and Broadways performers Toni Braxton, Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell join the roster of all-star talent sharing memories and anecdotes from the past two decades of Disney on Broadway. – Read more at TVByTheNumbers
BLAKE SHELTON TO PERFORM ‘LONELY TONIGHT’ ON MONDAY, DEC. 8 TELECAST OF ‘THE VOICE’ – UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — December 3, 2014 — Blake Shelton, the reigning and five-time CMA male vocalist of the year, will perform “Lonely Tonight,” his new single with Ashley Monroe, on the Monday, Dec. 8 telecast (8-10 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning series “The Voice.” Shelton, who is the winningest coach on “The Voice,” has 18 #1 singles. His most recent and ninth studio album, “Bringing Back the Sunshine,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard top 200 and top country albums charts. The first single from the album, “Neon Light,” became Blake’s 13th consecutive #1 single, the most by any country artist in the modern era. – Read more at NBC
The X Factor: Winner’s single to benefit children’s charity – The X Factor winner’s single will be in aid of children’s charity Together for Short Lives, Simon Cowell has confirmed. 100% of the profits from each sale – expected to be at least 20p for each download and £1 for every CD single – will go towards the organization, which works with children’s hospices and services across the country helping ill children and their families. – Read more at Digital Spy
Bono in control of concert from sick bed – U2 were fronted by Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen for the free event in Time Square after Bono, who was injured in a bicycle incident last month, was busy recuperating. But one of the other performers at the concert, country superstar Carrie Underwood, said the U2 frontman was still in charge. “I know he was still very much running the show from his home very far away from Times Square. I know he was on the phone the whole time and watching everything,” Underwood told AAP.
“He was still very much involved even though he was laid up in bed and he couldn’t be there.” – Read more at Yahoo.com
David Cook And Fans Reach $1 Million Fundraising Mark For Brain Cancer Research At Benefit Concert – “Raising a million dollars for brain cancer research is quite an accomplishment,” said Max Wallace, CEO of ABC2. “David and his fans are making a big impact.” Cook is putting the finishing touches on a new album and the first single, “Wait for Me,” is available on iTunes and other digital retailers. Cook and his fans will continue fundraising when they participate in the 2015 Race for Hope on May 3, 2015 in Washington, DC, which benefits Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure and the National Brain Tumor Society. – Read more at PRNewswire
Cassadee Pope Has 30 Songs Written for New Album – Cassadee Pope has revealed in a new interview that she already has 30 songs written for her new album. When speaking to 101.9 The Wolf, the “Wasting All These Tears” singer said that she has a lot to talk about and is working hard on delivering the best single possible. – Listen to the interview at AlterThePress.com
American Idol-winning singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips discusses platinum-selling albums, touring and an evolving sound in anticipation of his performance at RIMAC this weekend. – Guardian: You’ve set off on quite an extensive tour, playing in some pretty large venues. But before your success following American Idol, you played some very intimate shows with a small band. Are there times you miss playing to smaller audiences or do you prefer the consistent excitement of playing larger shows? Phillip Phillips: Yeah, I want to do a tour at some point where it’s just me, my friend that plays the cello and the guitar player — as a little trio — and just play smaller venues like that. But it’s also fun playing the big ones as well because it’s clearly different than breaking it down acoustically and playing with a full band. You get to have fun and you get all these different personalities music-wise … I have an incredible band and it’s just an honor to play with them and share my music with them and have them share that with me as well. – Read more at UCS.Gardian.org
FANTASY SPRINGS: ‘Idol’ winner Phillip Phillips performs Saturday – Even after winning season 11 of “American Idol,” selling more than a million copies of his debut album and performing before thousands of fans, Phillip Phillips isn’t immune to stage fright—like when he sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the World Series this fall. “It was terrifying, they had a screen with the lyrics but it was on a three-second delay so I had to wing it,” the 24-year-old said during a recent phone interview as he was preparing to take the stage in Hollywood, Florida. – Read more at PE.com
‘Survivor’ host Jeff Probst explains why he stopped that reward challenge – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I love the fact that you called the alliance of five out for the “big charade” (as you put it) in rigging the system to decide who should win the reward challenge. What were your feelings when you saw that going down: Anger? Annoyance? Intrigue at a chance to shake-up how a challenge usually proceeds? All or none of the above? JEFF PROBST: I’ve been in a very truthful mood this season so here’s some more: I knew when we started the challenge that initially it was going to be a landslide and I had resigned myself to the alliance of five getting rid of those who were not in the alliance. I was okay with that, but once we got down to the five, I anticipated some game play. There is, after all, still a million dollars on the line. Instead, they started nonchalantly chatting as a group about what they should do next. Just right out in the open with not a care in the world. I am always thinking like the audience and within about ten seconds I was completely bored watching them “talk it out.” My brain did a fast-forward and I realized we are going to sit here for 15 minutes and smash skulls that have absolutely no bearing on the outcome because they are deciding it right now. – Read more at EW.com
Neil Meron, Craig Zadan on ‘Peter Pan Live!’ Emergency Plan, Casting Challenges and Mean Tweets – “Welcome to Neverland,” says Neil Meron, showing no signs of nerves on this late November day as crewmembers scurry around him on a Bethpage, N.Y., soundstage. On Dec. 4, he and longtime collaborator Craig Zadan, co-founders of Storyline Entertainment, will stage a live rendition of Peter Pan, starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, for viewers to devour and dissect (likely mercilessly on social media). Hopes are high for the NBC telecast, considering The Sound of Music Live!, the first live musical broadcast since the 1950s, drew 21.3 million viewers at this time last year (and prompted NBC to charge in the $400,000 range for ads in Pan). – Read moer at Hollywood Reporter
‘Peter Pan Live’ song switch praised by head of Native American museum – When “Peter Pan Live” airs on NBC on Thursday, there will be a few changes, including several new songs with lyrics by Amanda Green, whose father Adolph helped write some of the original songs. Some “Peter Pan” purists may scoff, but one of those changes is drawing praise from an unexpected direction. Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, has released a statement praising the show’s producers for replacing the song “Ugg-a-Wugg,” sung by the Native American character Tiger Lily, played by Alanna Saunders, with the more culturally sensitive song, “True Blood Brothers.” – Read more at LA Times
