With a protracted listing of musical accomplishments already beneath her belt, Maren Morris says she by no means desires to get complacent.
That is why, earlier this yr, the singer determined to pursue a dream of being in a Broadway musical: She auditioned for the position of Elphaba Thropp within the long-running musical Depraved, sharing her audition tape with followers, and even revealed in August that she’d gotten a callback to audition for the position.
Throughout an interview on NBC’s The Sunday Sitdown With Willie Geist on Sunday (Dec. 4), Morris defined that that audition is simply one of many ways in which she’s making an attempt to be courageous and push herself to deal with new challenges.
“I wanna do Broadway,” the singer mentioned. “I’ve actually tried to simply scare myself, the previous couple of years. I hosted a late night show — had by no means accomplished that. I flew with the Air Force Thunderbirds — in, like, a fighter jet.”
And now, Morris has her eye on a yet-to-be-fulfilled musical theater dream. Whether or not or not she makes it to the Broadway stage as Elphaba, the singer acquired to stay out some Depraved desires onstage in Nashville on Friday evening (Dec. 2), through the last cease of her Humble Quest Tour at Bridgestone Area.
The singer had some assist from a particular visitor who is aware of the songs of Depraved notably properly: Singer and actor Kristin Chenoweth, who performed Galinda reverse Idina Menzel’s Elphaba when the musical first opened on Broadway in 2003. “Typically we get to make our personal heaven,” Morris wrote on social media, posting a snippet of their duet efficiency of “For Good.”
Chenoweth — who beforehand supported Morris’ determination to check out for Depraved with a collection of encouraging tweets — additionally shared the video over on her social media account, writing “There are some moments you will always remember. That is one among them. Gulp. I like you, [Maren Morris].”
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