Bette Midler Signs On as Mentor for Upcoming Season of NBC's THE VOICE

On this morning's TODAY, Carson Daly revealed the names of the celebrities who will serve as mentors on the upcoming 11th season of THE VOICE, including legendary singer Bette Midler, Charlie Puth, Sammy Hagar and Joan Jett. They will join the season's panel of coaches - Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys.

Midler will join Shelton's team, Hagar will join Team Adam, Puth will work with Keys and Jett signs on to Team Miley.

Midler will star in the upcoming Broadway revival of HELLO DOLLY, which begins previewing March 15, 2017, with an official opening night of April 20, 2017. Four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks directs and Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce joins Midler as leading man Horace Vandergelder.

As a recording artist Midler has sold more than 35 million albums and won four Grammy Awards. She is a Tony Award, three-time Emmy, three-time Golden Globe-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated actress who made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in 1967, and went on to star in dozens of blockbuster films, creating some of the most iconic screen performances in cinematic history. Throughout the 1970's, she brought to Broadway three well-loved concert events: Bette Midler (in 1973, and for which she received a special Tony Award), Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (in 1975), and Bette! Divine Madness (in 1979).

In 2013, Midler returned to the Broadway stage, after a nearly 40-year absence, to star in the one-woman play I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers in which she played the legendary Hollywood agent, wowing critics and selling out performance after performance in a run that broke the house record at the Booth Theatre.

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