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Jenna Bush Hager's Dolly Parton Musical Audition Leaves Hoda Kotb Cackling

Jenna Bush Hager showed off her acting skills while auditioning for Dolly Parton's upcoming Broadway musical live on 'Today'

Before channeling Parton, 78, with a platinum blonde curly wig, Bush Hager noted that her impromptu audition would be submitted under the show’s official casting call hashtag, #SearchForDolly. Reciting the song’s first verse, she continued: “Your beauty is beyond compare / With flaming locks of auburn hair / With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green / Your smile is like a breath of spring / Your voice is soft like summer rain / And I cannot compete with you, Jolene.” “Now, whether you’re chasing your dreams from a small town, or you’ve spent years performing on stages across the country, I want to give you the chance to help me bring my story to Broadway, and maybe even play me,” she said in a Thursday, December 5, YouTube announcement video.

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