Well, new this morning, we want to get you ready
for an upcoming show coming up August 15th out at
the Hard Rock Casino.
Donnie Osmond is going to be performing there in August.
And Donnie is joining us from his production studio in
Utah this morning to talk about Hello,
Deirdre. Hi, how are you?
I'm good. How are you?
I'm doing well. And then you,
I mean, you must have been to Sacramento before him
over the years.
Oh, absolutely. So what? Tell me what your thoughts are
or your memories are when you when we talk about
Sacramento.
Well, actually
I used to live in California.
I grew up in California.
So I've been all over the state.
I've been everywhere, Deirdre. I mean,
you pick a, you pick a city across the United
States,
across the world. I've been there.
I don't think there is one that you haven't been
to,
that's for sure. And I don't think so either.
One of the ones that you've had maybe the biggest
impact on,
certainly recently has been Las Vegas.
Your Las Vegas show has been just absolutely epic.
So as you're touring the country this summer with the
46 city tour,
I know you're bringing a lot of Vegas to the
people.
I mean, this show is really big.
Well, that's one of the things that I decided to
do.
I don't like to put on shows or concerts.
I like to put on events.
Not everybody can come to Las Vegas.
So I decided to bring Las Vegas to you,
and I'm bringing the full production.
And So what does that,
what does that actually mean?
Huge.
No, All the dance, all the multimedia,
the lights, the band, the costumes.
It's Las Vegas on wheels.
Yeah 'cause I thought, if I'm gonna do this,
'cause this is probably the most extensive tour I've ever
launched,
'cause we're doing 46 cities in
in about a little over two months.
So it's it's aggressive and we're saving the best to
last.
We're you're you're at the tail end of the tour,
so you're probably gonna get the best of it.
Well, I would hope so.
You know, I've been, I've been doing my job not
as long as you've been doing your job,
but for a long time.
And so I always joke that I I really think
about entertaining myself a lot of these days,
cause the job is similar from day-to-day.
How do you is that part of how you entertain
yourself by always,
constantly upping it and making it bigger and bigger and
bigger?
You have to. I mean if you analyze my career,
which is pretty much what the show is,
6 decades in one show,
you've got to constantly reinvent yourself.
Otherwise, you know the audience gets tired and they get,
especially nowadays. But this show,
there's something happening every second of the moment.
There's times when you shut the production down and sing
the song,
but then you got to give them the eye candy
because the bar has been raised.
You got to get up to that bar and even
surpass it.
So that's what we've done with this show.
It's. I hope you get a chance to see it
because I don't want to sound like I'm overhyping this,
but it's probably the the biggest show I've ever put
together.
You're Donny Osmond. I think if anybody gets to overhype,
you can do it, but I don't think you're overhyping
it somehow.
I you know what's fun for me?
What's fun for me is,
is I see the the different demographics in the audience,
particularly when I sing the song from Mulan.
Not a lot of, not everybody knows that I'm Captain
Shang in that movie.
But we do a full production of Mulan and let's
get down to business and some of the faces in
the audience like that's you.
OK. I didn't. I didn't know that either.
That's you. Well, you didn't.
No, I didn't. I't. I'm Captain Shang.
Yeah, it's quite interesting. And then then you got to
do dancing because after winning Dancing with the Stars,
so the dancing is unbelievable.
Do you know the show?
So you think You Can Dance?
Yes. OK Nappy tabs are the ones that put that
to show together and and keep it running.
Nappy tabs choreograph this show.
So it's really unbelievable. The dancing in the show is
amazing.
Well, everything you do is pretty unbelievable.
The show is coming up August 15th.
Be out there at the Hard Rock looking for you
to come and looking forward to.
All the information is on
donnie.com. Let's keep it simple.
donnie.com. That's all the. Let's keep it simple.
This is the first time,
by the way, I've ever interviewed somebody who's doll I
used to play with as a kid.
And I will tell you,
it did not disappoint. Well,
thank you. Thanks, Deirdre. All right,
Thank you. Donnie Osmond, good to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you as well.