Sheryl Lee Ralph LOVES Abbott Elementary Star Quinta Brunson
Will Abbott Elementary get the philharmonic treatment?
In an exclusive interrogation with E! News astatine the 2022 American Music Awards, Sheryl Lee Ralph shared her thoughts about a imaginable philharmonic adaptation for Abbott Elementary, successful which she plays dedicated nationalist schoolhouse teacher Barbara Howard.
"You cognize what? Abbott Elementary, The Musical. I spot it," she said. "I emotion it. Come connected Quinta [Brunson]."
She elaborated connected her emotion for the thought declaring, "Hell yea!" and confirmed that she'd instrumentality the transportation to the show's creator.
"I should inquire her," she continued. "But past I wouldn't person clip capable to bash it unless we had a agelong interruption truthful we'll person to see."
The original Dreamgirls cast member further gushed over her boss, sharing that she ever trusts Quinta's creative direction. "Let maine archer you something, my brag is 32 years old, fractional my property and I emotion her," she said. "And I americium precise blessed to beryllium close astatine her genu and accidental 'Queen, what are we doing next?' Because she knows what we're doing next."
Plenty of radical person emotion for Sheryl, too. The 65-year-old won the Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series grant astatine the 2022 Emmys, which prompted congratulations from some Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce.
Her almighty award code astatine the Sept. 12 ceremony was followed by a lasting ovation wherever she memorably declared, "To anyone who has ever, ever had a imagination and thought your imagination wasn't, wouldn't, couldn't travel true. I americium present to archer you that this is what believing looks similar this. This is what striving looks like."
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You tin drawback much of Sheryl's interrogation connected the Nov. 21 occurrence of E! News, which airs 11:30 p.m. ET.
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