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The honey Tony award-winning musical Annie is coming to television in for a live performance on December 2. While the story line is well-known and recognizable, one of the stars of Annie Live! may exist tough to recognize thanks to a drastic advent modify.

Quondam American Idol estimate and dynamic jazz crooner Harry Connick Jr. has been enlisted to play Oliver Warbucks, the billionaire who agrees to permit orphan Annie live at his mansion to promote his image. To maintain the dignity of the original grapheme, Connick Jr. knew he had to be baldheaded for the part.

"That grapheme has been around since I retrieve the '20s. That's who Daddy Warbucks is," Harry told Vanity Off-white in a new interview. "I idea it was pretty important to portray him the style the original comic strip portrayed him."

The musician starts rehearsals for the live bear witness in mid-November, just donned a baldheaded cap for the press photos that were recently released. Merely, he is still considering swapping his signature dark locks for a shaved head for the live performance.

"I oasis't made up my mind for the actual show. For the printing photos, I had a bald cap on, merely nosotros'll see what happens with the show," Connick Jr. said. "The trouble is I have other things going on, and information technology's kind of hard to exercise those things with a baldheaded head. It takes then long for your pilus to abound back. But nosotros'll encounter when it comes."

Harry Connick Jr. has done his share of boob tube, musicals, concerts and more, just this is his first foray into live idiot box musical.

"I remember of it as sort of the same every bit annihilation else. I start to develop my thoughts in my caput and then, in this instance, you become through the rehearsal process and then it's fourth dimension to go on phase. That'southward what I love to do the nigh," the 54-year-quondam said. "And the fact that this is a combination of alive television and theater is really exciting. I've never done that before, then I'm thrilled to be able to practise that."

Catch Harry Connick Jr. in Annie Live! on NBC on December 2, 2020.