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Vanessa Williams knows however to radiance agleam similar a diamond.
Since 1997, the Grammy nominee has traveled astir the satellite performing her agelong catalogue of hits including "Save the Best for Last" and "Colors of the Wind."
But arsenic the holidays approach, Vanessa decided to articulation Feinstein's/54 Below's Diamond Series for six performances Dec. 13-18. The accidental is something the 59-year-old can't hold to experience.
"It's 1 happening to beryllium connected signifier with idiosyncratic that you're doing a choreographed and directed Broadway show," Vanessa exclusively shared with E! News. "But past erstwhile you spot them doing their ain worldly and perceive to their stories, there's a full different facet of someone's property erstwhile you perceive astir their lives and you perceive astir the songs that they take to sing."
When stepping into the iconic New York venue, guests volition beryllium greeted with a invited portion and hors d'oeuvres ahead of a three-course meal and an up-close and idiosyncratic show by the Ugly Betty star.
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And with Vanessa inviting her 4-piece set and longtime inheritance vocalist Shelley Thomas Harts, guests are successful for a magical evening filled with stories, euphony and laughs.
"The nighttime volition beryllium filled with people and glamour, but besides a bully lukewarm acquisition of recollection and jazz," she teased. "Luckily, I tin sing a batch of hits that I've had for 30 years positive and R&B and possibly immoderate telephone outs from immoderate celebrated friends that'll beryllium successful the assemblage due to the fact that I've got a batch of friends that are going to beryllium there. Who knows what duets whitethorn ensue?"
That spontaneity is what keeps Vanessa excited to execute nighttime aft night.
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And whether she's acting connected the tiny screen, taking the signifier connected Broadway oregon performing successful a venue wherever she tin laic eyes connected each attendee, Vanessa promises that nary 2 shows are precisely the same.
"There is ne'er the aforesaid assemblage oregon the aforesaid consciousness each night," she said. "When you're lasting successful a ellipse doing your supplication to get acceptable to spell retired and springiness it the champion amusement you've fixed and past you're retired determination arsenic a set making music, that ne'er gets old. When you're giving that euphony to radical and affecting people, that ne'er gets old."
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