A Very Gaga Thanksgiving
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| Directed by | Lady Gaga |
| Starring | Lady Gaga |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | November 24, 2011 |
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| Website | www |
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving is a Thanksgiving television special that originally aired on November 24, 2011, in the United States on ABC. Conceived and directed by Lady Gaga, it discusses her personal life and the inspiration behind her music. Development for A Very Gaga Thanksgiving immediately surfaced in November 2011, when it was announced that Gaga would host a television special on Thanksgiving. Principal photography took place at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City.
It features guest appearances from Katie Couric, Art Smith, and Tony Bennett. Gaga performed stripped down, acoustic versions of four songs from her second studio album, Born This Way, along with two Christmas songs and a duet with Bennett. The special received critical acclaim and gave ABC its best ratings in four years for its respective time slot on Thanksgiving Day. At the 2012 Dorian Awards, the special was nominated in the category of Best TV Musical Program of the Year, but did not win the award. A live EP of performances from the special, titled A Very Gaga Holiday, was made available for purchase from the iTunes Store. The EP debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 52.
Couric interviews Lady Gaga about her life and the inspiration behind her music at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, the school she attended as a child. Gaga also performs nine songs to a small audience of friends and family, including "Born This Way", "Marry the Night", "You and I", "Hair" and "The Edge of Glory", as well as covers of Irving Berlin's holiday classic "White Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky". She also sings "The Lady Is a Tramp", originally from the 1937 musical comedy Babes in Arms, as a duet with Tony Bennett. The duet also featured the work of Gaga's trumpeter, Brian Newman. Gaga sings "Bad Romance" onstage in a different scene. American chef Art Smith accompanies Gaga with a turkey dinner and waffles. In another scene, a small group of children gather around her as she blows glitter on them.
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