Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 When Mariah Carey needed a child actress to sing her "Oh Santa" in "A Christmas Melody", she signed Broadway's "Matilda: The Musical" star. Nine-year-old Fina Strazza had recently finished an 11-month run in New York's Shubert Theater when she got the call for the Hallmark Channel movie Carey is appearing in and directing in Cincinnati this month. It came just in time. Fina was en route to meet with a theater director when her agent and manager called to say, "Turn around! You're going to Ohio!"Fina, in her first major TV role, plays Emily Parson, daughter of a single mother (Lacey Chabert) who recently moved back home to fictional Silver Lake. Carey, who appears as the diva PTA president, rewrote lyrics to her 2010 "Oh Santa" hit for Fina to sing at the Silver Lake Elementary Snowflake Pageant."It made me nervous when I first met her. But then she put me at ease when we got into the recording booth," said Fina during a break in filming Sunday at Kilgour Elementary School in Mount Lookout. "It's amazing to work with a musical icon."The Grammy-winning pop star isn't the biggest icon Fina met this year. When Barack Obama attended a fund-raiser at her neighbor's residence in New York City last spring, the president visited her too. "My sister taped a sign on the door that said, 'Please knock!'," Fina said. He did. "It's been an incredible year," said her mother, Rana Strazza, who showed me a video of Obama talking to her daughter that day. "I don't tell people about it because it's truly amazing."A music video of Fina's "Oh Santa" is in the works by "A Christmas Melody" executive producers Brad Krevoy and Jonathan Axelrod. "It's going to be a sensation around America," said Krevoy, who produced Nicollette Sheridan's "The Christmas Spirit" in Lebanon two years ago for the Hallmark Channel.Fina starred on Broadway in "Matilda: The Musical" from August 2014 through July. She made her movie debut last year in "A Little Game" with Janeane Garofalo, Ralph Macchio, Rachel Dratch, Olympia Dukakis and F. Murray Abraham. When I asked if she liked Broadway or films better, the fifth grader answered like an old pro:"I like plays a lot, because you get to see what happens if you mess up. You can see the improv if something happens. And then in film, you get to retry (the scene) when you make mistakes. So I like both of them a lot. One you get to retry, the other you get to have a little fun. I'm not sure which I like better, because they're very different."Unlike the immediate gratification from a Broadway play, movies stars have to wait months to see their films. For this little girl, who loved playing in the Washington Park playground while in town, can't wait until the week before Christmas. That's when "A Christmas Melody" premieres 8 p.m. Saturday, December 19, on the Hallmark Channel."I really can't wait to see it. I want to see it so badly," she says. "When it comes out, I want all my friends to see it." Filming wraps Thursday on "A Christmas Melody". X See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 A music video of Fina's "Oh Santa" is in the works by "A Christmas Melody" executive producers Brad Krevoy and Jonathan Axelrod. "It's going to be a sensation around America," said Krevoy, who produced Nicollette Sheridan's "The Christmas Spirit" in Lebanon two years ago for the Hallmark Channel. @Riot Poof @SylkMonster @Lady Palutena @Bombastic See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 QUEEN OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC VIDEOS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 QUEEN OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC VIDEOS New Christmas Music See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 New Christmas Music "New" "Music" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 "New" "Music" Probably same old stuff just re-recorded See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Probably same old stuff just re-recorded Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Still more music than a Kesha or Xtina fan tho See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Still more music than a Kesha or Xtina fan tho if she re-records AIWFCIY again.. ..I'm leaving this fan base and joining the ariantors or harmonizers or something idk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 if she re-records AIWFCIY again.. ..I'm leaving this fan base and joining the ariantors or harmonizers or something idk Oh Santa coming to rescue See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Mariah Carey justed posted this pic with Gretchen Weiners Lacey Chabert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Mariah Carey justed posted this pic with Gretchen Weiners Lacey Chabert I bet that's from the scene of Christmas Eve See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I bet that's from the scene of Christmas Eve BOTH OF THEM LOOK SO FLAWLESS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 BOTH OF THEM LOOK SO FLAWLESS Movie's gonna smash hard See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGirlfriend 950 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Movie's gonna smash hard I wish it wasn't a tv movie.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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