Christina Bianco On O COME ALL YE DIVAS

Hello Broadway world! Christina Bianco here and I'm going to answer your

questions about my upcoming show at the Charing Cross Theatre, O Come All Ye Divas

What am I looking forward to about spending the festive season in London

Everything! This will be my first official Christmas in London and I want

to do everything cliché. I want to go to all of the holiday markets, I want to see

concert at Royal Albert Hall. I want to skate pathetically at Somerset House but

not injure myself. I need to be in tip-top shape to perform. I want to eat all of

the mince pies at Fortnum & Mason, have mulled wine as a duck and dog

Um, pretty much everything so you're gonna see me out and about

Will I be doing unlikely interpretations in this show? 100% yes, definitely. On my

recent UK tour I took requests from the audience to figure out which unlikely

interpretations I'd be doing and that proved to be so much fun I wanted to find

a special way to apply that for this Christmas show so I'm not taking requests

specifically but the audience will have a say and it will be different every

night and it will definitely involve Christmas songs and crazy divas it's

gonna keep the band and me on our toes but it's gonna be totally worth it so

come on down and see the fun The most random, unlikely interpretation

Well, in every city, I got multiple requests to do Julie Andrews singing something highly

inappropriate, so I did a lot of those, and those were definitely fun. But the most spectacular was probably in Scotland There was a request to do Shirley Bassey singing Ya Cannae Shove Your Granny Off a Bus Insert clip

So artists who have very low or raspy or gritty voices would be difficult for me

And also artists with very, very, very high, light and floaty voices were very difficult for me

For example, Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton has a very, very high voice, very, very powerful, but very, very high in tone

And she has a very, very fast vibrato, but a very different sort of fast vibrato to that of Edith Piaf

So it gives me a lot of challenges when I not only have to change the vocal timbre of my voice to make it higher or lower or rounder or thinner, but also to change the speed of my vibrato, it's very difficult

So Dolly's a tough one for sure. Also Liza Minnelli, Marlena Dietrich. Yeah, it's hard. A lot of them are hard, but practice makes perfect

Okay on a normal day I go with spaghetti bolognese with crispy Italian bread and a nice Chianti but because it the holidays I gonna go with pumpkin bread with a spiked peppermint hot chocolate

I have two favorite Christmas songs. One is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

It's just beautiful. warms my heart and of course Judy Garland originally sang it so love the Judy love that

song that's the sweet heartwarming ballad my other favorite that you probably will find

me humming along to on the street and in every single store where it's playing is sleigh ride

you know if I had these on every time I was singing it that would make me so happy because

it just makes me want to prance around I definitely have been caught singing it in stores and it

gets really difficult on the bridge. The vocal intervals are quite difficult. I'm going to quit

while I'm ahead and just say Slay Ride. This is easy for me. My dream non-musical theater role is

LV in Little Voice. Now that is technically in the works for coming to Broadway in the 2017-18

season, but until I'm on that stage under those lights, it is still my dream role. So LV in Little

voice. I know that there is some music in that, although it's not a musical so you

might not think that counts. So my other choice would be a Shakespearean classic

Much Ado About Nothing. I'd love to play Beatrice. She is fierce. Original diva

Elf. My only one-word answer. I love this question Three celebrities for dinner Jane Austen My bookshelf is filled with Jane Austen novels I would love to speak with her For some comedy some intellectual comedy My favorite Eddie Izzard And who am I kidding Benedict Cumberbatch I have no idea why I hesitated Benedict Cumberbatch I obsessed

Bad Christmas jokes from... Okay, we don't really have Christmas crackers here in the U.S

We just don't do it. I went to one party once and somebody handed them out and they were like

Do we throw them? Do they make noises when they hit the ground? Like, nobody knew what to do

But I do know a very bad Christmas joke. What does Santa like to do in the springtime

He stays in his garden because he likes to ho ho ho

I'm so sorry. Hello my friends! It is I, Celine Dion, and I am here to offer you a piece of advice

If you want to see the most truly spectacular Christmas extravaganza in all of London

you must go see O Come All Ye Divas at the Charing Cross Theatre

starring Christina Bianco, from December 20th to January 7th. O Come All Ye Divas

It's a wonderful program. She's going to impersonate the fabulous divas of past and present

singing, speaking, and everything in between. She does some moves, she has some good moves, I hear, I hear

Check out the show. Okay, I'm not sure how much dancing I'm gonna do

I'll have some words with Celine about that, but I do hope you can all see O Come All Ye Divas

at the Charing Cross Theatre this Christmas. It's going to be unlike any show you have ever seen before

You won't want to miss it