Key Sentence:
- Harry Connick Jr. has joined Taraji P. Henson, who is set to play Miss Hannigan in the NBC special.
- Unfortunately, Harry Connick Jr. is gone to Easy Street!
“It’s anything but an exemplary show, and it’s a show that I’m so acquainted with, just from seeing it multiple times,” the star tells PEOPLE only. “What’s more, it’s something where you watch it and appreciate it and never truly envision yourself a piece of it, so when I was approached to play Daddy Warbucks, it was somewhat strange because that is a particularly famous job.”
“It wasn’t something I at any point truly contemplated,” Connick Jr. adds. “I was recently excited that I was approached to do it.” The Will and Grace alum say he knows the narrative of Annie well, particularly from watching the 1982 film with his three little girls – Georgia, 25, Sarah, 23, and Charlotte, 19 – whom he imparts to spouse Jill Goodacre.
“I’ve seen the Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Albert Finney adaptation on many occasions, presumably because each of the three of our girls loves. That show and the exhibitions are so incredible,” he says, adding that he likewise recorded a few of the melodies from the soundtrack for a kids’ collection in 2001, named Songs I Heard.
Up until this point, just Connick Jr., Taraji P. Henson, officially endorsed the live melodic, which will air on NBC in December. Henson will play Miss Hannigan, the scandalous top of the halfway house where Annie resides before she is received by Daddy Warbucks, the organization reported last month.
“I totally love her,” Connick Jr. says of Hen. “She’s only one of those super, very capable – multi-skilled – individuals that are uncommon and I’m a tremendous fan.
I’m a genuine bag, er to not exclusively associate with her, and will work with her to sort of watch her work and see what makes that large cerebrum that she has ticked. So it will be an enjoyable encounter for me.”As for when entertainingnxious to play out a melodic on live TV.
