Chris Daughtry tweets, “Got a busy day ahead of me in the studio. Doing vocals today on one of our potential singles for this record…maybe the first single”
Kris Allen updates his fans on the progress of his new album. Via twitter, “I know. in the process of looking for producers then studio time RT @NoorOmnaya: @KrisAllen we need new music like yesterdaay !! c’mon !!”
Pia Toscano will appear at “Pia Toscano Appreciation Night” at the Brooklyn Cyclone’s MCU Park in Brooklyn. More information HERE.
Ace Young will take part in “New York’s Finest (The Leading Men of Broadway)” Coming to The Ford Amphitheatre in NYC on Friday September 16 at 8:30 PM. More information HERE.
‘The Glee Project’s’ Lindsay Pearce to Star in ‘A Snow White Christmas’ (Exclusive)
Hours after Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy declared all four Glee Project finalists winners in some capacity, Pearce has closed a deal to play Snow White in the El Portal Theatre’s holiday musical A Snow White Christmas.
Marina Sirtis (Star Trek) co-stars as The Wicked Queen and How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris will play a special onscreen guest role as The Magic Mirror in the updated version of the classic Disney fairy tale. In a comedic twist, A Snow White Christmas will also feature modern music including Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and The Village People’s “YMCA” as well as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
The production, which opens Nov. 30 and runs through Dec. 18 at the Los Angeles theater, will be directed by Bonnie Lythgoe(So You Think You Can Dance Australia) and choreographed by Dancing With the Stars’ Mark Ballas. American Idol’s Michael Orland is on board as musical director.
Read more at Hollywood Reporter
Listen to an original song from Season 4 Idol contestant, Vonzell Soloman.
Listen to “If I Tell You”
Chris Colfer On Emmys, Season 3 ‘Glee’ Hopes And Hip Rotations
We caught up with Colfer on a Sunday to find out about going back to school at McKinley for Season 3 of “Glee, ” how he approaches a comedy Emmy nomination with a character best known for his tears, and how performing a Beyonce number on tour really helped his hip rotations.
Your Emmy submission this year was the episode “Grilled Cheesus, ” which deals with Kurt facing almost losing his father. What led you to pick that episode over some of the other stand-out ones this season?
It was the hardest decision that I ever had to make. It was definitely my Sophie’s Choice because we had so much great material to submit. What I did was I compared “Grilled Cheesus” to everything else that was in the running — “Never Been Kissed, ” “Born This Way, ” “Prom Queen” — and I just felt like there was nothing any of those episodes had that Grilled Cheesus didn’t. I went with my gut, and submitted that one. “Modern Family” has a 95 percent chance of winning so we’ll see. It’s me, John Cryer, and all of “Modern Family.”
“Grilled Cheesus” deals with Kurt and loss, and mentions the loss of Kurt’s mother while he’s dealing with the possible loss of his father. Since we don’t know on the show — do you have or any insight from Ryan as to that backstory?”
I’ve asked them that question a million times and they don’t know yet. But have told me they’re planning on using it in a future episode.
Read more at Huffington Post
Songwriter Jerry Leiber Dies at 78
Jerry Leiber, one of the most important songwriters in the history of rock & roll – whose 50-year partnership with Mike Stoller produced “Stand By Me, ” “Hound Dog, ” “Jailhouse Rock, ” “Young Blood, ” “On Broadway, ” “Yakety-Yak” and countless other classics – has died of unknown causes, according to a source close to the songwriter. He was 78.
“When Jerry and I started to write, we were writing to amuse ourselves, ” Stoller told Rolling Stone in 1990. “It was done out of a love of doing it. We we got very lucky in the sense that at some point what we wrote also amused a lot of other people.”
Read more at Rolling Stone
Michael Grimm: ‘I am not an American Idol’
“I played [Las Vegas] for 11 years at all the casinos, ” Grimm said. “It’s been a good place to make a living, putting bread on the table. It wasn’t bad because they allowed me to do what I do. I’m sort of a rebel, so I’m gonna do my own thing anyway. On the TV show I was able to do my own thing. … There was really [nothing they could teach me].”
Which is the reason Grimm never auditioned for that “other show.”
“I’m not an American Idol, ” he said with a chuckle. “It’s hard for me to go to a show that wants to turn me into something else. To be an idol you have to be young, fresh and willing to be molded. I’m just not that guy.”
Read more at the Chicago Sun Times
