Carrie Underwood talks final Las Vegas residency shows and what's next

As Carrie Underwood approaches the last shows of her Las Vegas "REFLECTION" residency, the vocalist is opening up astir the emotion that went into it and what's next.

"I consciousness similar determination was truthful overmuch emotion and enactment and excitement that was poured into this amusement that, for me, I consciousness this volition unrecorded successful my mind, as, similar 1 of the top shows we've ever enactment together, if not the top amusement we've enactment together," Underwood said successful an interrogation for the ABC News peculiar "Vegas Lights & Country Nights: Countdown to the CMA Awards - A Special Edition of 20/20."

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Carrie Underwood adds caller shows to Las Vegas residency

Underwood's "REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency" kicked disconnected successful December 2021 astatine Resorts World Theatre. She announced successful October that she would beryllium taking her last bow successful outpouring 2025 and shared the remaining dates of her residency.

"It's a truly peculiar show," Underwood said. "I'm gonna miss it."

What songs does Underwood execute successful 'REFLECTION'?

The Grammy Award victor described "REFLECTION" arsenic a "greatest hits show" featuring fan-favorite songs similar "Something successful the Water," "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats."

Underwood said that what sets the "Before He Cheats" residency show isolated from the erstwhile circuit performances is the onstage production, which includes occurrence and dancers.

"We person done 'Before He Cheats' galore times implicit the years, successful galore antithetic ways, and conscionable being successful this static situation wherever we don't person to prime up and determination everything, it's like, 'Well, what is our privation list?' And it's like, 'Let's airy thing connected fire.'"

"The dancers, the ladies that travel onstage bring attitude," she added. "And I consciousness similar [it] conscionable lifts america each up for the finale. I mean everybody sings. I'm ever amazed erstwhile I enactment the microphone out. You know, are they gonna sing? And everybody's singing and it makes maine truly happy."

When she sings "Jesus, Take The Wheel," she said it's a infinitesimal of "a small worship" successful her show.

"It volition ever beryllium 1 of my implicit favorites to sing," she said. "I don't adjacent cognize however galore times I've sung that song, but it ever conscionable feels truthful good."

"I ever accidental that 1 of the things that I bash emotion astir singing state euphony is that we tin screen truthful galore antithetic emotions and areas," she continued. "We tin archer stories. We tin sing astir our faith. We tin sing astir our family. We tin sing astir drinking and cheating, 'cause that's just, it's life. We person fun, we're serious, we're faithful, we're sassy -- each of it. And I emotion having those moments successful the amusement that are a spot much serious."

What person Underwood's kids said astir her show?

The portion successful the amusement that Underwood described arsenic a "beautiful, poignant" infinitesimal is erstwhile she performs "Something successful the Water," which not lone features a elephantine h2o backdrop, but saccharine videos from her vocation and family.

"My kids are kinda sprinkled successful determination a small bit," she said. "I deliberation it's the cleanable mode to extremity it. We could person ended it with 'Before He Cheats,' but I consciousness similar ending it with thing a small much sentimental is the mode to go."

Underwood said that her sons Isaiah and Jacob, whom she shares with hubby Mike Fisher, person seen the amusement respective times.

"They're ever truthful sweet," she said astir their visits. "At the extremity of it, I'm soaking wet, like, coming into my dressing room, towel connected my caput and robe connected and each this stuff, and you tin conscionable spot however arrogant they are, which makes maine proud. When your kids [are] like, 'That's my mom,' it makes maine consciousness good."

When volition 'Carrie Underwood: Reflection' watercourse connected Hulu?

While her residency volition beryllium ending successful April 2025, Underwood said that fans who weren't capable to spot her successful Vegas volition beryllium capable to spot the amusement erstwhile it streams connected Hulu successful January 2025.

"I consciousness similar it would've been a existent shame if it conscionable lived connected successful people's memories," Underwood said astir her residency. "People tin re-live those moments and get to ticker them and acquisition them and possibly spot things they missed erstwhile they came out."

Underwood said that she's besides blessed that her kids volition beryllium capable to ticker her residency successful the future.

"I emotion that my kids are gonna get to ticker it someday erstwhile they're a small spot older and beryllium like, 'Oh my gosh mom. I can't judge you did that,'" she said. "I conscionable emotion that it's gonna get to unrecorded on."

How does Underwood find clip for herself, and what's adjacent for her?

On the days disconnected that she gets from her "REFLECTION" show, Underwood said she keeps a mean regular astatine location and does things that bring her joyousness similar baking bread, gardening and exploring each that Vegas has to offer.

"On the occasional days disconnected that I get successful Vegas, I conscionable wanna bash those things," she said. "There's truthful overmuch to bash successful Vegas, and truthful galore radical spell out, and each erstwhile successful a while, I'll get to cheque retired shows oregon spell to bully restaurants oregon something. But immoderate days, I conscionable wanna enactment successful my pajamas and cook something."

Looking ahead, successful summation to her residency ending, Underwood volition besides adhd "American Idol" justice to her resume, which she called a "full ellipse moment."

"It's been 20 years since I was connected 'American Idol,' and it inactive blows my caput to deliberation that I conscionable went and tried retired for a TV show, and truthful overmuch has happened," said the singer, who won the singing contention successful 2005. "I see myself conscionable truthful blessed."

"To spell backmost and beryllium a justice ... I precise overmuch look guardant to being a portion of idiosyncratic else's story," she added.

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