Introduction:
In October, the celebrated entertainer Marie Osmond unveiled a special performance on BYUtv titled “An Evening with Marie”. What makes this broadcast truly special is not just the scale of production—it’s the fact that it feels very much like a retrospective celebration of her multifaceted musical journey.
From the very beginning, Marie made a purposeful choice to collaborate with BYUtv. Her reason? The app is free, available on multiple platforms, and reaches an enormous worldwide audience—including the military. She wanted to ensure that no matter where someone was, they could access this performance. 
With that kind of reach, she could share a deeply personal evening of music and story with a broad audience.
What stands out is Marie’s willingness to traverse genres. Over a lifetime of performing, she’s assumed many roles—whether it’s country, jazz, pop, legitimate soprano, belting, or even operatic styles. In the special, she teases this journey: it’s not the full symphonic extravaganza, but you will hear a little sampling of that orchestrated, live-music experience. Backed by a full symphonic orchestra, the show delivers live music that hits across the spectrum—from the lowest resonant tone to soaring vocal highs. It’s been described as an evening that resonates “from your chakras to the tones,” underscoring how immersive this performance aims to be.
At the heart of the show is not the complete album, but enough of a taste to signal the next chapter. Her most recent album, titled Unexpected, serves as a thematic backdrop to the show’s momentum. The idea of “unexpected” fits well: in a career already rich with milestones, she’s choosing now to stretch into new terrain—arranging symphonic accompaniment, shifting vocal styles, and revisiting not only what audiences expect of her, but what she expects of herself.
Beyond the music, the evening offers a candid glimpse into her personal life. When a moment interrupted the recording—her phone lighting up with a family call—she didn’t shy away from acknowledging it. She paused, turned it off, and communicated something real: that even amid performance and production, family matters. The mention of her son, the loss she’s endured, and how triggers can come in unexpected moments was handled with honesty and grace. As an artist, she didn’t hide the fact that while we can’t always “get over” certain losses, we learn to keep living, keep creating, keep being.
When asked for life advice in those moments of being thrown off course, she responded with both humility and strength: when life is too much, she kneels, she prays, she leans into agency and faith, acknowledging that while we don’t control everything, we do control how we respond. She shared that returning to work after a tragedy wasn’t an easy choice, but one she made for her children—to keep living, modeling resilience, showing that life can include sorrow and also music, hope and action.
In all, An Evening with Marie is more than just a concert special. It’s a lived-in story of a singer who has evolved across genres, who embraces vulnerability, and who invites us to listen and feel along the way. If you’re curious about an artist who doesn’t rest on her laurels—but instead chooses to keep surprising herself and her audience—this is an evening worth experiencing.