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In Netflix'due south new holiday special, A Very Murray Christmas, Bill Murray sings popular and bottom-known Christmas songs alongside stars similar George Clooney, Chris Rock and Miley Cyrus.

Murray and Rock croon "Do You Hear What I Hear" while wearing matching sweaters, Clooney joins in on the chorus of "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin" and Cyrus and Maya Rudolph separately perform renditions of "Silent Night" and "Christmas Infant Please Come up Habitation."

The special itself has the meta pretense of Murray struggling to host a vacation special after a snowstorm shuts down New York, leaving him trapped in the Carlyle Hotel with his producers (Amy Poehler and Julie White), bandleader (Paul Shaffer) and some hotel guests and staffers: characters played by Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, Jenny Lewis and the band Phoenix.

But how did Murray, Shaffer (who also served as the special's music director), writer Mitch Glazer and writer-manager Sofia Coppola determine who performed certain songs and played characters taking part in various skits?

"It was kind of a dream because you accept great musicians, bang-up voices, groovy friends and y'all think most how to lucifer talent and voices to songs," Glazer told The Hollywood Reporter at Murray Christmas' New York premiere. "I did that with the Blues Brothers years agone. I loved the thought of finding my favorite songs and getting friends to sing them. [This special] reminded me of that. Also, having worked with Paul Shaffer back then to do that felt like simply this yr we had wider local colors to choose from. There were some standards that we wanted, but like the Pogues song, 'Fairytale of New York,' was a vocal that I held onto, I wanted to use in a motion-picture show of my own, quite frankly, because I thought information technology was so beautiful. And this seemed like the place to do information technology. Bill beingness Irish gaelic and the Pogues' legacy, it felt naturally good, and he sang the hell out of it."

One-time Rilo Kiley frontwoman Lewis, who duets with Murray on "Fairytale" and "Babe, It's Common cold Outside," explained that she and Shaffer worked on her performances.

"We talked a bit virtually some harmony ideas and we worked out some of the vocal parts on the spot," Lewis said of her collaborations with Shaffer. "He'south so amazing and it was such an honor to work with him and he's like a true musical director merely very open and the songs really evolved very naturally while nosotros were in the room together."

Coppola said that in addition to Lewis, who joked that she "manifested" existence in a Christmas special with her outgoing voicemail message "Information technology's almost Christmastime," the special'southward other participants helped with the song selections.

"Maya Rudolph, similar, I asked, 'What vocal practise you want to practice?' And she came up with hers and Bill thought of the Todd Rundgren vocal, 'I Saw the Light' for Jason and Rashida," she said. "So it was kind of a mix of songs … and Phoenix found their song — an one-time Beach Boys song, that we didn't know."

Murray, who interrupted Shaffer's interview with reporters to requite him a hug and kiss on the dorsum of the neck said that David Letterman'due south former bandleader, always had everyone's "best interests at middle."

"It was never nigh Paul; information technology was always virtually what was best for the whole thing," Murray told a group of reporters. "It was an experience dissimilar any other and anybody did amend than everyone thought they could, including themselves. Each person did better than they always idea they would do."

Murray, who joined Shaffer's interview to enquire what questions reporters had for Paul, hopped around the cherry-red carpet, chatting with various groups of media correspondents. Other stars spotted at the premiere included Schwartzman and Cyrus, who posed for photos, including the one below, in which she held up a Christmas sweater with Murray's face on it and bit the collar. Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos as well mingled with bandage members on the red carpet at New York's Paris Theater.

Producer Roman Coppola, Sofia'southward brother, spoke to THR near how the streaming service became involved with the special that his sister asked him to be a function of and had been working on for "some time" before it really came together.

"Originally, there were different parties interested, and it was hard to confirm that information technology was really going to happen. There was the idea that we sort of broached with all of the major players—more than of the cable and or streaming services, but aye there was a lot of interest from the group and Netflix was the most interested so they were the natural partner," he said.

And the special might not be Glazer'south terminal, saying that working on A Very Murray Christmas made him desire to practice another special.

"I loved it. Information technology was a peachy, fun week at the Carlyle hotel with onetime friends and what a dream. I would practise it tomorrow," he said.

"If and when we do some other i," Glazer said, he wants John Prine to be a function of it, explaining that they tried to take him be a part of Murray Christmas simply it didn't piece of work out.

"Bill and I saw him in Charleston," Glazer said, struggling to recall the name of the "Affections from Montgomery" songwriter. "We wanted him to get simply he had hip surgery."

Glazer besides came up with the special's burn of Murray and Clooney'south poorly reviewed motion-picture show, The Monuments Men.

"I wasn't worried about George, because he wasn't around when the joke was happening, even though that could exist scary," Glazer said. "But I was wondering whether Beak would say it. I just typed it and wrote information technology in and sent information technology to him, every bit part of the script, and bless his centre, he knew it was a express joy. And comedy trumps everything—always."

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