00:00He's one of the original teen idols. I was a huge fan when I was a little boy.
00:09And after a career spanning six decades, he's still filling arenas and theatres all around the world.
00:15Well now, Donny Osmond is set to sprinkle some glitz and glamour over here as he brings his Vegas show to the UK.
00:22Delighted to say that Donny joins us live from Las Vegas.
00:25Now, good morning to you. Great to see you this morning.
00:29It's going to be more than glitz and glamour, let me tell you. I'm bringing Las Vegas to the UK.
00:34We just finished a show here in Las Vegas, right, just a little while ago.
00:38And it was so exciting, but when I bring this show over, I'm adding stuff to it.
00:43It's going to be utter chaos.
00:46Well, we can't wait. So give us an idea then of what will be in store for us.
00:51Well, I don't want to give the show away, but I'm creating this song.
00:55We're going to open up the second act after the interval.
00:58Do you remember a song?
00:59We're having a party. We're going to dance and play.
01:05It's a hint we had back in the early 70s.
01:07As a matter of fact, Britain's Got Talent used that song to launch their season this year.
01:13So I'm going to open up the second act with this song, and I have these spheres that I'm throwing in the audience.
01:20I have 24, I don't know how many I'm writing, and the company is writing code for me to bring up certain specifications, because it's all coordinated with the lighting, with the dancing.
01:33It's going to be utter chaos on the opening of the second act.
01:37Donna, you've been extended. You're back in Las Vegas in the spring until May, but at the end of November, you do the arena tour in the UK.
01:48Yes.
01:49Which one do you enjoy the most? Is it, well, it must be easy to get up every day in Las Vegas and do your show.
01:56Big ol' tour is tougher, but do you enjoy touring the country, being in the UK more?
02:03I had the time of my life. Yes, I love my residency here in Las Vegas, but there's something about not just going on tour, but going on tour in the UK.
02:12The audiences there have been so loyal, and it's so exciting, and I can't wait to see what happens in this one segment.
02:19I call it the request segment. I put all 65 albums on the huge screens, and anyone in the arena can pick any song I've ever recorded, and we do it just like that.
02:29So every show is different, and I've got microphones all over the arena, so everybody, even in the nosebleed seats, can participate in this segment.
02:38It's so much fun. Oh, there are sometimes moments when you recognize people in the audience who have been to so many of your concerts over so many years.
02:47Oh, I'm off time, year after year.
02:49Yes, I do, I know this sounds like a cliché, but I really do have the most loyal fans in the world.
02:56I've been doing this for six decades, you guys. In fact, that's what the show is. Everything I've done in six decades in a two-hour concert.
03:03It's so much fun for me, because I get to relive all of these moments. Of course, you sing, and they call it Poppy Love. You've got to do Poppy Love.
03:14Yes.
03:15And there's just so much. I do a rap in the show. It's a ten-minute rap. It goes, it all began back in Utah. I was four years old, started singing with my brothers, and the sound was like, oh, that keeps going and going for ten minutes long.
03:28Everything I've done in six decades. It's really, really cool.
03:32It's phenomenal. I love the fact that you're dropping it all into the interview for us this morning, giving us these little glimmers of what's to come.
03:39And it also, the tour marks the anniversary, doesn't it? Fifty years since you and your brothers first performed in the UK.
03:45I mean, you talk there about being in the music business for six decades. What is it, do you think, that's given you that longevity?
03:52I mean, we can see you've clearly got such a love of music and such a legendary talent.
03:58Well, it's a very good question. I think I love the fact that I love challenges of reinventing myself.
04:05If you really analyze my career from the annual show at five years old, it's been nothing but reinvention to the next level,
04:12climbing the next mountain, and summiting that mountain. And this show, in my opinion, is the ultimate show.
04:20Because like I said, it's everything I've done. And it's so interesting to see the reaction from people after they start walking out.
04:29And they say, I didn't know he did all of that. There's a segment we do on Captain Shang in the Disney movie, Mulan.
04:37And it's interesting to watch the faces when I go, let's get down to business.
04:42And we go into the stick. The stick fighting Captain Shang is on the screen behind me.
04:46And some people say, I had no idea he was Captain Shang.
04:50Danny, your fans will want to make you happy. What is the song which, when they choose it, your heart soars and you think, yes, that's the one I really want to sing?
05:05Well, that's the beauty of the request segment because, yes, I may have some favorite songs and things like that.
05:12But some of those songs are different as far as what their favorites are.
05:16And that's the cool thing about the request segment. They get to hear their favorite songs.
05:2112th of an hour, You Ask How Much I Need You. That always comes up. That's kind of a fan favorite.
05:30Go Away Little Girl, my first number one record. And I do One Bad Apple, our very first number one record.
05:38And my four dancers and I, we dress up in the 70s outfits and we put the Osmond cartoon behind us and we do One Bad Apple as the Osmond brothers.
05:49But what's really cool, and I'm still putting it together, I'm going to close the first act before the interval with Love Me For A Reason with my brothers.
05:59I'm going to close the last night's degree or whatever.
