Julie Andrews, Henson puppets will star in new Netflix series for preschoolers
Julie Andrews, queen of Genovia and beyond, is coming to Netflix in the most adorable way possible.
The Oscar-winning actress is producing and starring in a new educational series for preschoolers titled Julie's Greenroom. Plus, she'll be hosting the show with new puppets from the Jim Henson Creature Shop. The series will be focused on "the wonderful world of the performing arts," including acting, singing, dancing, writing and more.
In addition to the puppets, Andrews will be aided by an assistant named Gus (Giullian Gioiello), USA Today reports. Andrews created the series with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.
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"Over the years, because of those wonderful movies, it sort of evolved, this passion to communicate to children the wonder of it all. And this is really a lovely culmination of all that I've wanted to do for a long time," Andrews tells USA Today.
The series will feature guest stars like Alec Baldwin, Tituss Burgess, Carol Burnett, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban and more.
The actress will not sing much herself on the show (her legendary voice was impaired after surgery in the late 1990s), but she might do "little vaudevillian stuff," she tells USA Today.
"I leave the heavy singing to people like Idina and Giullian," she says.
The series does not yet have a specific release date, but will air in early 2017.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
