A nationwide search is underway for someone to play Dolly Parton in a musical about her life.<\/p>\n
The show will be called “Dolly: An Original Musical” and will premiere on Broadway in 2026.<\/p>\n
Dolly even encouraged people to post their audition videos online to show the world.<\/p>\n
Currently, the internet is freaking out because they think they’ve found the perfect Dolly, and honestly, it might be one of the best impressions I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
It’s even more impressive knowing she’s not even American.<\/p>\n
Her name is Kelly O’Brien and she has Dolly’s accent, mannerisms, and laugh down to a science. So much so, that she’s made a career out of it in the U.K. She calls her act “The Dolly Show”.<\/p>\n
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Here are some of the best comments online: “The English accent straight to Dolly’s precious southern drawl. You’re a wizard!” . . . and “If you aren’t at the top of their list, then we all need to riot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nationwide search is underway for someone to play Dolly Parton in a musical about her life.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[102,5899,5914],"class_list":["post-30710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dolly-an-original-musical","tag-kelly-obrien"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 16:44:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/12\/internet-freaks-out-over-dolly-audition\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30711,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30710\/revisions\/30711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}