The legendary Dolly Parton is talking about her Broadway baby ‘9 to 5’. The musical’s run on the Great White Way is coming to a close on September 6 and the iconic singer has released a statement via her official website expressing her gratitude to the cast and crew. She said “I couldn’t have asked for a better experience on my first Broadway show. I’ve had the privilege of working with an amazing group of people who have become like family to me. I can’t wait to for this show to hit the road next year so people across the country can see why I’m so proud of everyone involved.”
The star of the Broadway musical ‘9 to 5’ Stephanie J. Block has just recorded the most beautiful cover I have ever heard of the Dolly Parton classic ‘I Will Always Love You’. The song has been reworked as a duet and she’s got the iconic country singer Dolly herself joining in on the vocals. It’s amazing! After hearing Whitney Houston’s version of the song, I thought that was a good as it was going to get but Stephanie has gone and proved that idea to be wrong. If she decides to have a music career apart from singing on Broadway, she already has a fan and supporter in me.
Dolly Parton performed her ambassadorial duties Tuesday night at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington DC where she spoke on behalf of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The Park is celebrating its 75th anniversary and the country singing icon is its official Ambassador. Dolly is pretty much the defender of all things wonderful, including national parks. And she does all that while looking ever so fabulous. I think every celebrity should be just like Dolly. She’s such a good person and she does so many good things with finesse. If the world can have just one ruler, I vote for Dolly!
Dolly Parton called the cops on some people earlier this week and T-Pain and Ludacris may just be the culprits. The country singing icon was filming a music video on Hollywood Boulevard this past week when hooligans intentionally disrupted the shoot with some hip hop tunes pouring from a boom box. Well that was really disrespectful. I hope they got told. No one should do that to Dolly. Every type of music is welcome in California, do they not know that? Hip hop these days is overrated anyway. Cops came and went but the hecklers stayed as Dolly walked the streets.
The reviews are in and Dolly Parton’s new ‘9 to 5’ musical is a smash success! It’s love by fans and critics alike. One review for the Hollywood Reporter reads “The film always was a musical waiting to happen, and Parton has made the most of the opportunity. Parton [and collaborators] have done a sensational job.” Let’s see Mariah Carey try to top that with her plans of making a musical out of her Christmas album. No one can do it like Dolly. I don’t think Mariah will even do anything if her show experiences any technical trouble like when Dolly’s show first opened.
Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ premiered in Los Angeles on Tuesday night with a couple of minor glitches but one big surprise to pick up the slack. The diva herself was there to introduce the show. Dolly welcomed the audience and engaged them for a bit. She said that since it was the first showing that there might be some stopping and starting but she promised that she will get up to do a show if that happens. The first act started and about halfway through, the moving set came to a stop. After a moment of silence, Dolly kept her promise and got on stage. She answered some audience questions and then started to perform. She sang ‘9 to 5’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’.
Howard Stern and his crew manipulated some Dolly Parton audio books into stuff that was seemingly racist and sexually graphic last week. Dolly was pissed about it and has recently released a statement through her reps saying “I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life. I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me. In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing. Please accept my apology for them and certainly know I had nothing to do with this. If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it’s going to be over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this.”
Dolly Parton – now that’s a star who needs no introduction or any grace of tongue to be described. The diva and country music legend is back with a new album called ‘Backwoods Barbie’. On that album, she has a cover of the 80s classic ‘Drives Me Crazy’ by the Fine Young Cannibals. And like I said, it’s Dolly. Her cover rules! Her cover still has the 80s feel which made the song really enjoyable in the first place but then she adds her own country flavor and it became even better. I never knew I would be into country as much as this and again I have to say – it’s Dolly Parton! How could anyone not like her?
Quite frankly, I’ve wondered how she’s managed to walk upright for all these years. Finally, Dolly’s back gives out under the weight of those ginormous boobs!
She has postponed her 13-show tour that was set to start on February 28 due to an unspecified back problem. Her doctor recommended she take eight weeks off to recover.
Dolly said, “I know I’ve been breaking my neck and bending over backwards trying to get my new Backwoods Barbie CD and world tour together, but I didn’t mean to hurt myself doing it.”
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