Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin has announced the show's musical performers at the upcoming 2007 Academy Awards.
Beyoncé will perform “Listen” (music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, lyric by Anne Preven), one of three Original Song nominees from the musical Dreamgirls.
Jennifer Hudson will be singing “Love You I Do” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Siedah Garrett), also from Dreamgirls.
Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, and other Dreamgirls cast members will perform “Patience” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Willie Reale).
Melissa Etheridge will perform “I Need to Wake Up” from the global-warming documentary feature An Inconvenient Truth. Etheridge wrote the music and lyric for the nominated song.
Accompanied by singer-guitarist James Taylor, Randy Newman will perform his own “Our Town” from the animated feature Cars. Newman wrote both the music and lyric for “Our Town,” and also composed the film’s score. Cars is up for a best animated feature Academy Award.
The Oscar ceremony will be held next Sunday, February 25, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. It will be aired live by ABC at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour red-carpet arrivals segment during which you can watch both the interviewers and the stars make fools of themselves.