Brooke Elliott has put her Broadway past to good use with musical numbers in “Drop Dead Diva,” but her character has none in the new season.
Her co-star Margaret Cho, however, gets to fulfill some musical fantasies in season four of the legal comedy-drama, premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. on Lifetime.
“My character Teri gets to do a lot of music, which is a lot of fun,” says Cho, 43. “I contributed a song a long time ago to the soundtrack, but this year I get to do a couple of them.
“She has a transformation where she starts to think that she’s going to be a rock star. So that’s the fun new unexpected thing: Terry gets to have a whole musical career, which I love.”
Don’t be so shocked.
“I have a good singing voice,” says Cho, who released an album in 2010. “That’s kind of a surprise because people don’t expect that to come out of my face, because I’m like Susan Boyle that way.
“So it’s a very fun thing to surprise people with. I have a long history of singing, in my standup comedy, but also as a kid, and my mother's a singer,” she adds.
In “Diva,” Elliott, 37, stars as Jane Bingum, a hardworking lawyer whose body is taken over by the soul of a fashion model after they both die at about the same time. The model, Deb, chooses to return after heaven’s gatekeeper decides she’s too shallow for the afterlife.
Deb is initially mortified that she’s no longer pin-thin, but changes her attitude while working on cases. Cho plays Teri Lee, Jane/Deb’s assistant.
“It’s kind of a big season,” Elliott says. “There are lots of love struggles for Jane, where she’s happy in one moment, struggling in the next, and confused in the next moment. Jane goes all around in terms of love this season.”
The first episode begins with Jane and Owen (Lex Medlin) in Italy for a scene actually shot on the set in Georgia.
“We shoot in Atlanta, and it was a restaurant there,” says Elliott. “I think it was called Parish, and it’s a great restaurant, and down below, they have pastries and all kinds of great stuff.”
Elliott doesn’t love everything about the city, though.
“The only thing I ever dread about shooting is because we shoot in Atlanta, there are terrible, terrible allergies down there," she says. “I battle allergies so badly.”
The show is known for scoring lots of big guest stars. Kim Kardashian appears in the first episode, and others this season include Joan Rivers, Serena Williams and Patty Duke.
“I think probably my favorite moment of all season in terms of the guest stars would be where I looked around and I was on set with Liza Minnelli, Delta Burke and Rosie O’Donnell. I thought that was really, really cool and I did have to stop and take stock of how you get to that really cool moment in your life.”
Cho, who gets some significant screen time with Duke, is now writing her fall comedy tour, called “Mother.”
“It’s all about my mother and motherhood in general, just because it’s something that I haven’t experienced and I would like to,” she says. “But it’s kind of getting late for me.”
Cho likes the balance of getting free reign over what she can say in her comedy routines as well as doing a TV show.
“It’s different worlds,” she says. “So I really want to do to be able to do my own work and be very uncensored and wild and then go into something that's scripted and structured. I love that.”
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