“I actually have an EP that I’m working on. Surprise! … I’m just working on some really feel good music. I’m not trying to toot my own horn here but it was time for a pivot. I’ve done so many iconic roles, you know? [With] acting, it has to be something that excites me and challenges me. Like Miss Hannigan in Annie, that’s musical theater, that challenges me taking me back to my roots. So it’s about just continuing to challenge myself. I kept saying that music, I might have missed it because I became a mother so early on in college, but God has other plans for me. Because the music is just really falling in my lap. Like, it started with The Muppets, and through the Muppets, I booked Miss Hannigan, and it just keeps coming. So, Imma ride the wave. Why not?” she said.
Henson will also star in NBC’s upcoming musical “Annie Live!” which will premiere on Dec. 2 and features Celina Smith, Harry Connick Jr., Nicole Scherzinger and Tituss Burgess. Check out the trailer below of Muppets Haunted Mansion below as well as Taraji spilling the tea on her musical career with “ABC’s Good Morning America.”
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