Norm! column

July 18, 2007

Osmond ponders resident status

[hear the whole show with Donny Osmond here]

Donny Osmond can see himself in Las Vegas in five years as a resident headliner. The temptation is there, he admits.

"I've got some ideas I'd like to develop," the 1970s heartthrob said in an interview this week with Steve Friess and Miles Smith, co-hosts of TheStripPodcast.Com. The Las Vegas crowd wants "a quick show," he said. "It's a different mentality."

"That's why I like the kind of show I bring in. It's all about as much variety in 90 minutes as you can possibly do without bringing in the kitchen sink. You bring in the toys, all that kind of stuff, the production, and then give them some personality and some great music."

His audience has broadened in recent years, said Osmond, who will be at The Orleans Aug. 13-14 for an Osmonds' 50th anniversary PBS special. "I do concerts and I look out at the audience and primarily it's the 'Puppy Love' audience, the ones who grew up in the '70s with me and the 'Donny & Marie Show.' But because of the Weird Al (video) and appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Leno, it brings in a wider, different demographic. And they all know me for certain different things."

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