Reneé Rapp resides out her childhood goals, and no, that doesn’t consult with climbing the charts together with her debut album or starring in one of many greatest movies of the 12 months. In an Instagram submit Tuesday (March 19), the Imply Ladies actress revealed that she not too long ago obtained to go to the set of Sesame Road, the place she met one in all her earliest icons: Elmo.
The 24-year-old singer-songwriter shared a video of her sitting with the little crimson muppet on the kids’s present’s well-known inexperienced stoop, cuddling him shut as the 2 posed for a photograph. “mother I used to be actually on Sesame Road,” she captioned the submit.
Rapp additionally included a photograph of her as a child, rocking a pair of lovely socks with Elmo’s face sewn onto the toes. “My dad needed to restore the bottoms of these slippers 3 instances as a result of I insisted on carrying them out of the home as a child,” she wrote of the snap on her Instagram Story. “let’s get it clear I’ll at all times f–king journey for elmo.”
The “Not My Fault” singer’s reps additionally confirmed to Billboard that Rapp can be showing on an episode of Sesame Road season 55, which is ready to premiere within the fall.
The Broadway star’s submit comes simply days after she gained the excellent music artist class at this 12 months’s GLAAD Awards, the place she was acknowledged for her November debut document Snow Angel. The 12-track set peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard 200.
Rapp can also be contemporary off the premiere of Tina Fey’s revamped Imply Ladies movie, the stay motion model of the Imply Ladies musical, which itself was impressed by the unique 2004 film of the identical identify. Within the flick, she performed Regina George reverse Angourie Rice, Chris Briney, Avantika and Bebe Wooden.
The “Not My Fault” singer, who made her Saturday Night time Reside debut as musical visitor in January, has spent a lot of 2024 thus far on the street. She needed to postpone a few reveals earlier this month because of sickness, however not earlier than she was acknowledged by Beyoncé for protecting “Daddy Classes” at one in all her prior concert events.
After sharing a photograph of a bouquet of flowers despatched to her by Queen Bey after the efficiency, Rapp instructed The Hollywood Reporter that the celebrity is “the rationale that I understand how to sing.”
See Rapp’s submit with Elmo beneath.
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