Jennifer Hudson Set to Play Final Performance as The Color Purple’s Shug Avery – As was recently announced, Tony and Grammy winner Heather Headley is set to replace Jennifer Hudson in John Doyle’s Broadway revival of The Color Purple. Today marks Hudson’s final performance as Shug Avery, her Broadway-debut role, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Headley will join the cast for the first time on May 10. “These last six months have been nothing short of a dream come true. I have found an extended family in the cast of The Color Purple that will go far beyond my commitment onstage,” said Hudson in a statement. – Read more at TheatreMania.com
Watch for Lee Dewyze Tune on Elementary Tonight
The American Idol 9 winner’s song “Again” will appear in the season finale of Elementary tonight on CBS at 10/9c PM.
Catch My song “Again” this Sunday in the season Finale of @Elementary_CBS on @CBS !! #Elementary
Again ?https://t.co/Q8Yixk8WS5
— Lee DeWyze (@LeeDeWyze) May 7, 2016
Country Music’s Hottest Guys Celebrate Their Moms – “What I love most about my mother is her passion for her family and her kids. She would do anything for us and she always has our back. She supported me through all my sports activities and music lessons, and she encouraged me to follow my dreams to become a country music singer. Mom even gave up everything else she was doing to be with me in Los Angeles for five months while I was on “American Idol” because I was underage. – Read more at Livingly.com
Nashville Predators: Carrie Underwood is Watching Team – We know that Carrie Underwood isn’t able to attend the games with her busy concert schedule but we also know that she is finding ways to watch how well her husband is doing with the team. Yesterday morning, right after the thrilling Three Overtime win the Nashville Predators pulled out with a game-winning goal by Fisher, Underwood tweeted out… – More at Predlines.com Carrie tweeted out a vid of the game winning score. Unfortunately, the Preds lost 5-1 to the Sharks last night 5-1. The Sharks lead the series 3-2. Game 6 is Monday night in Nashville.
Still soaking up this moment from last night. So proud of my man!!! ??? https://t.co/1XTlBzjrOH
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) May 6, 2016
BWW Interview: Chris Mann Aligns the Stars with ‘Constellation’ – Mann has taken another step forward as a singer with the release of Constellation, his new recording. As with Phantom, The Voice, and the PBS special A Mann for All Seasons the classically-trained singer now focuses on an area as important to Mann, if not more. “I’ve always been a songwriter,” he says, “and that’s the side of my career that hasn’t been too featured. I was signed to Sony a long time ago, and I made an original record, and it never came out. It’s very important to be that I be able to share songs that I have written and loved in the past.” – Read more at BroadwayWorld.com
Simon Cowell’s son says dad presses buzzers for a living – “America’s Got Talent” judge Simon Cowell is tough, but his 2-year-old son is even harder to impress. Cowell brought little Eric to a taping of his NBC competition show last week, and couldn’t stop laughing about the answer he got when he asked the toddler if he knew what his daddy did for a living. “He said ‘you press buzzers,’” Cowell told the Daily News’ Don Kaplan. The apple doesn’t fall far from the cold-hearted tree: Of the big X’s that appear over the stage that send acts packing, Cowell says the boy, “finds them very funny — he’s got a great sense of humor and I love him.” – Read more at NY Daily News
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