Audience Casting for the VH1 Presents Carrie Underwood Special – If you are a HUGE fan of Carrie’s and would like the opportunity to receive complimentary admission to this extremely intimate concert, please reply back to AudienceCasting@GothamCasting.com. Make sure to put “Carrie Underwood” in the subject line and include the following: – More information HERE
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams will perform with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 8. More information HERE.
A Tiny Adam Lambert Pretty Little Liars Spoiler! – Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse hinted at some twists, and a surprising guest star in the show’s upcoming season finale. “Adam Lambert makes an appearance, which was such a shock to us because he is so amazing!” Pieterse said. “And the only other thing I can say is that it takes place on a train. And it’s crazy shocking!” – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Siobhan Magnus at Tent – Siobhan Magnus has changed and she’s the first to admit it. “I’m calmer now and I’ve really grown. There’s no doubt I feel different and it’s good,” Magnus says via phone.
The 22-year-old Barnstable native, who shot into the pop world’s consciousness and became a Cape Cod sensation thanks to her electric performances on season nine of TV’s “American Idol,” recognizes she has to keep evolving in order to become a great artist. “A tarantula sheds its skin and emerges differently, yet also still the same, and that’s how I feel. Now I’m so much more confident and relaxed.” – Read more at Cape Cod Online
Backstage with American Idol’s Haley Reinhart – Ashley: Congratulations being the first American Idol contender to perform at Lollapalooza. How did the set go? Haley Reinhart: It was amazing. I was more nervous just anticipating how the huge festival is and the fact that I’m a part of it. But when I got up there, the nerves went away, because I really enjoy live performing and I had my band and my whole family up there with me. – Read more at Junebug.com
Olympics poll: Seacrest earns 78 percent satisfied ratings at London Games – If TV viewers were in charge, Ryan Seacrest would win the gold medal for his coverage on NBC, trade publication/Web site the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday. That’s because a new poll conducted by THR and pollster Penn Schoen Berland reveals that 78?percent of viewers say they’re satisfied with the job Seacrest is doing from the Games. Seacrest is news at these Games because his participation for NBC is a sort of ribbon-cutting for his NBCUniversal deal that was announced in April. – Read more at Washington Post
‘Glee’s’ Cory Monteith on Real-Life Role in Canadian Indie Film – TORONTO – For Cory Monteith, the former Walmart people greeter, the chance to play a department store manager in the Canadian indie film All The Wrong Reasons just fell into his lap. The Glee star recalls reading writer/director Gia Milani’s script about four lives intersecting in a big box department store, and immediately seeing in the James Asher character what he might have been in real life, had Hollywood stardom not changed his life.- Read more at Hollywood Reporter
You Must Know: New ‘Glee’ Star Dean Geyer – TheInsider.com: Congrats on landing the role, Dean. What was the audition process like? Dean Geyer: Usually you know what you’re going in to audition for, but here, the names weren’t the same and I used a Jesse St. James scene. So initially, I had no idea who this character was. When I got the call to test for the studio, that’s when I learned his name was Brody and got actual scenes. It was a long process. Audition, callbacks, then a week later the studio test, then a screentest with Lea [Michele] where we did a scene from season four. Then I did a network test and waited a few more days to hear back. I finally heard [I booked the role] the same morning the press release went out. – Read more at The Insider
