{"id":2206797,"date":"2025-12-20T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206797"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:01:37","slug":"ben-platt-calls-gwyneth-paltrow-mother-after-surprise-duet-l-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ben-platt-calls-gwyneth-paltrow-mother-after-surprise-duet-l-a-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Platt Calls Gwyneth Paltrow ‘Mother’ After Surprise Duet L.A. Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\u201cMother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s the one word caption shared by Ben Platt<\/a> on Instagram just moments after Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a> made a surprise appearance Thursday night during his Ahmanson Theatre residency. The Politician<\/em> co-stars and good friends shared the stage for a warm and well-received rendition of \u201cDimming of the Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe showing by Paltrow, who has sung on stages and screens (in Glee, Country Strong<\/em>, etc.) many times before, comes during a busy and high-profile spell<\/a> for the goop founder who is just about to return to the big-screen in a big way opposite Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> in Josh Safdie\u2019s A24<\/a> film Marty Supreme<\/a>.<\/em> And she\u2019s just the latest in a line of surprise performers to grace the stage with Platt as part of his holiday concert series, following Josh Groban, Demi Lovato, Khalid, Coco Jones and Amber Riley.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut Paltrow wasn\u2019t the only special guest last night as Zoey Deutch also turned up for a special collaboration on a classic Stephen Sondheim song from the musical Assassins<\/em>, \u201cUnworthy of Your Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBen Platt: Live at the Ahmanson<\/em> runs Dec. 12-21, and finds him sharing the stage with guests while performing his greatest hits and \u201ctimeless Broadway favorites.\u201d The Los Angeles native kicked it off last Friday in front of a sold-out crowd that welcomed him back with a handful of standing ovations. The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> was in the audience on opening night.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s so nice to be here for many reasons,\u201d the Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning performer said that evening. \u201cThe first is that I haven\u2019t had a concert of my own in a year and a half, and I\u2019ve been really so desperate and hungry to get on stage. So, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do that. It feels so nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother reason, he explained, is that his Ahmanson run marks a return to a stage he knows well. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was a wee child \u2014 I grew up here in L.A. and was born in Los Angeles; I\u2019m sorry that I deserted to New York, but I have a place here so it still counts \u2014 and when I was a kid and first getting into the business, two of my very first gigs were right here on this very stage,\u201d Platt said. \u201cWhen I was, I think, 10 years old, I was in a musical called Caroline, or Change, which is a beautiful show where I played kind of an effeminate, sad child. Then I did a play called Dead End a few years later, when I was 14, where I played an effeminate sad child. And now I\u2019m an effeminate, medium sad adult, so I\u2019m so thrilled to come back full circle. Thank you to Center Theater Group and the Ahmanson for letting me come back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPlatt during his concert at Center Theater Group\u2019s Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on Dec. 12, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: Makela Yepez\/Courtesy of CTG<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMother.\u201d That\u2019s the one word caption shared by Ben Platt on Instagram just moments after Gwyneth Paltrow made a surprise appearance Thursday night during his Ahmanson Theatre residency. The Politician co-stars and good friends shared the stage for a warm and well-received rendition of \u201cDimming of the Day.\u201d The showing by Paltrow, who has sung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[350560,333515,307951,328117,425260],"class_list":["post-2206797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-a24","tag-ben-platt","tag-gwyneth-paltrow","tag-marty-supreme","tag-timothu00e9e-chalamet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ben-Platt-Calls-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Mother-After-Surprise-Duet-LA-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206799,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206797\/revisions\/2206799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}