Jenna Bush Hager desires to be on Broadway.
The co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna and an completed creator has her sight set on a brand new stage.
On the Monday, Dec. 9 episode of the NBC daytime present, Bush Hager, 43, playfully expressed her curiosity in Dolly Parton’s upcoming Broadway musical, Dolly: An Original Musical.
While discussing the manufacturing and its nationwide expertise search to seek out somebody to painting Parton, Bush Hager eagerly volunteered.
“Dolly. Please?” she mentioned with a smile. “I simply need a bit of small half!”
Hoda Kotb, Bush Hager’s co-host, joined in to champion her good friend’s dream.
“It could be a dream, Dolly, if my good friend Jenna Bush Hager may need a shot at one thing,” Kotb, 60, mentioned. “All she desires is to be an additional. Just within the again, having espresso.”
Bush Hager took it a step additional, suggesting, “Or what about a part of the refrain? What about part of the ensemble?” Kotb rapidly shut that concept down with a agency “no.”
In the spirit of enjoyable, Bush Hager ready a lighthearted audition for the position.
Sporting a curly, bleach-blonde wig to emulate Parton’s signature look, she humorously admitted, “It was the most effective we might do on brief discover.”
She then delivered a spoken-word model of the lyrics to Parton’s traditional hit, Jolene.
“I’ve ready for you, Miss Dolly Parton, the lyrics to Jolene. But my voice is a bit of off,” Bush Hager defined earlier than her efficiency. Encouraging her, Kotb playfully urged, “Just do it. Just promote it!”
Dolly: An Original Musical, beforehand titled Hello, I’m Dolly, will inform the story of the long-lasting singer’s life and profession.
The manufacturing will function Parton’s timeless hits in addition to new songs written solely for the present. Co-written by Parton and Maria S. Schlatter, the musical will probably be directed by Bartlett Sher.
