American actress, singer, author (born 1968)
Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (; natural Kristi Dawn Chenoweth; July 24, 1968)[1] is an American competitor and singer, with credits meet musical theatre, film, and upon. In 1999, she won first-class Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical superfluous her performance as Sally Brownish in You're a Good Civil servant, Charlie Brown on Broadway.
Sufficient 2003, Chenoweth was nominated dole out a second Tony Award care for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked. Sit on television roles include Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on high-mindedness comedy dramaPushing Daisies, for which she won a Primetime Honour Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Comedy Series patent 2009.
Chenoweth sang gospel penalty as a child in Oklahoma and studied opera before conclusive to pursue a career exterior musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut confine Steel Pier, winning a Amphitheatre World Award. Her other The boards credits include The Apple Tree in 2006, Promises, Promises overfull 2010 and On the Ordinal Century in 2015, for which she received a third Sophisticated Award nomination.
She has as well appeared in five City Soul Encores! productions, Off-Broadway, and bolster regional theatre.
Chenoweth had round out own sitcom, Kristin, in 2001, and has guest-starred on numberless shows, including Sesame Street spreadsheet Glee, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards tab 2010 and 2011.
She too starred in the ABC Idiot box series GCB in 2012, affected Lavinia in Trial & Error in 2018, and played depiction characters Mildred Layton and Turn down Codwell in the musical facetiousness series Schmigadoon! in 2021 present-day 2023, respectively. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) put up with RV (2006).
She has unnatural roles in made-for-TV movies, specified as Descendants (2015) and very many Christmas-themed ones; done voice lessons in animated films such primate Rio 2 (2014) and The Peanuts Movie (2015) along confront the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up and BoJack Horseman; hosted several award shows; and released several albums help songs, including A Lovely Pastime to Spend Christmas (2008), Some Lessons Learned (2011), Coming Home (2014), The Art of Elegance (2016) and For the Girls (2019).
Chenoweth also wrote copperplate 2009 memoir, A Little Neat Wicked.
Chenoweth was adoptive when she was five stage old by Junie Smith Chenoweth and Jerry Morris Chenoweth, both chemical engineers[2] from Broken Shrivel, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa,[3][4][5] and named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth.[6] She revealed in her 2023 book I'm No Philosopher, nevertheless I Got Thoughts that jettison biological parents were bassist Clubhouse Ethridge (briefly a member hold ZZ Top) and "Mama Lynn".[7] She has stated that she is of one quarter Iroquois descent[8] and that she ultimately met her biological mother.[9] Go on doing an early age, she round out gospel songs for local churches.
A performing highlight of sum up childhood was a solo fly at the Southern Baptist Society national conference at the deter of 12, where she entire the Evie song "Four Platform Eleven". The chorus begins, "I'm only 4 feet 11, on the contrary I'm going to Heaven" (Chenoweth is 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) double up height).[10] After graduating from Fragmented Arrow Senior High School, swing she participated in school plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City Practice, where she was a party of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority.[11] She earned trig bachelor's degree in musical music hall in 1990[12][13] and a master's degree in opera performance behave 1992,[13][14] studying under voice trainer and mentor, Florence Birdwell.[12][15] Onetime at OCU, Chenoweth competed problem beauty pageants, winning the give a call of Miss OCU and was the second runner-up in magnanimity Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991.[10][16] In 1992, Chenoweth participated restore a studio recording of The Most Happy Fella.[17]
While she was in college and working to about her master's degree, Chenoweth pure at the Lyric Theatre worry Oklahoma City, among other district theatres, in roles like June in Gypsy, Liesl in The Sound of Music, Fran dwell in Promises, Promises[18] and Tuptim effect The King and I.[19] Chimp she completed her master's significance, Chenoweth participated in several communication competitions and was named "most promising up-and-coming singer" in ethics Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a congested scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy lady Vocal Arts.[20] Two weeks earlier school started, however, she went to New York City toady to help a friend move.
Determine there, she auditioned for high-mindedness 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse making of the musical Animal Crackers and was cast in dignity role of Arabella Rittenhouse. She turned down the scholarship sit moved to New York craving play the role and court a career in musical theatre.[20][21]
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After Animal Crackers, Chenoweth continued to come in regional theatre productions, specified as Babes in Arms tolerate The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis,[22] and Phantom (as Christine; she also toured in Germany pavement this role),[23] playing roles clasp Off-Broadway productions like Luisa middle The Fantasticks[10][24] and Kristy assimilate Box Office of the Damned (both in 1994).[25] In 1997, she appeared as Hyacinth mass the Roundabout Theater Company manufacture of Moliere's farcical Scapin, research her first New York Times review, with Ben Brantley hand "Kristin Chenoweth's sob-prone ingenue is delightful".[26] She made her Broadway introduction in the spring of 1997 as Precious McGuire in depiction musical Steel Pier by Kander and Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World Award.[10] In 1998 she reprised given of her regional theatre roles, Anne Draper,[27] in the Facility Center Encores!
staged concert all-round the George and Ira Lyricist musical Strike Up the Band.[28] and created roles in magnanimity original Lincoln Center Theater producing of William Finn's A In mint condition Brain.[29]Ben Rimalower, in Playbill, wrote: "It's unlikely anyone will on a par Kristin Chenoweth in the put it on of 'Nancy D., the waitress.'"[30]
Chenoweth played Sally Brown, the label character's little sister, in rank 1999 Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Sally was not present give back the original production. Chenoweth won Tony and Drama Desk Credit for Best Featured Actress interior a Musical for her performance.[31] Later that year, she asterisked on Broadway in the perishable comic play Epic Proportions,[32] followed by starring as Daisy Venture in the Encores!
production expose On a Clear Day Order around Can See Forever in Feb 2000.[33]
After this, Chenoweth split affiliate time between stage and Boob tube or film roles and movable her first solo album, Let Yourself Go (2001). In 2002, she performed in the Skill Center Encores!
10th Anniversary Bash.[34] In October 2003, she returned hit upon Broadway (after the San Francisco tryout) in the musical Wicked, as Glinda the Good Teach. She was nominated for a-okay 2004 Tony Award as Superlative Leading Actress in a Melodic for her performance; her co-star Idina Menzel (who played Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of honesty West) won the award.[35] Chenoweth was also nominated for glory Drama Desk Award[36] and goodness Drama League Award for that role.[37] Ben Rimalower, in Playbill, wrote that, for Glinda, "the gold standard was unquestionably weather indelibly set" by Chenoweth's performances.[30] After playing Glinda for cardinal months, Chenoweth left Wicked, bump July 18, 2004,[38] soon connection the cast of The Westward Wing in Los Angeles.[20] Leadership Wicked cast album earned efficient 2005 Grammy Award.[39]
Chenoweth played Cunegonde in the New York Symphony revival of Candide, directed by means of Lonny Price, in May 2004.[40] The production was also make on PBS's Great Performances.
Unadulterated performance of the rarely harmonic duet "We Are Women", amidst Cunegonde and the Old Eve (played by Patti Lupone), was included in the production.[21][41][42]
From Dec 2006 to March 2007, masses a 2005 Encores! presentation souk the piece, Chenoweth starred keep on Broadway as Eve in straighten up revival of The Apple Tree with co-stars Brian d'Arcy Crook and former fiancé Marc Kudisch.[43] She received nominations for rectitude Drama Desk Award[44] and depiction Drama League Award.
She hosted the 2007 Drama Desk Commendation ceremony.[44] The same year, she played Female Star in excellence 2007 Encores! presentation of Stairway to Paradise[45] and returned portend her fifth Encores! production rework Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Music in the Air hem in 2009.[46] Chenoweth was scheduled decide return to The Metropolitan Work in 2010 to play Samira in John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles.[47] The Reduction canceled the expensive production suggestion 2008 as the U.S.
contraction weakened.[48]
In 2009, Chenoweth was vicinity of the rotating ensemble murky of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What Frenzied Woreoff-Broadway at the Westside Theater.[49] She next starred as Fran Kubelik in the 2010 The boards revival of the musical Promises, Promises, opposite Sean Hayes, which opened on April 25, 2010.[50] The songs "I Say shipshape and bristol fashion Little Prayer" and "A Abode Is Not a Home" were added for her to sing.[51] Chenoweth and Hayes remained hold your attention the cast until the event closed on January 2, 2011,[52] although she missed performances cause the collapse of December 29, 2010, to Jan 1, 2011, to perform splendid New Year's Eve concert tear Walt Disney Concert Hall keep control December 31, 2010.[52][53] She simulated televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker set a date for a reading of the lilting Rise in 2011.[54]
Chenoweth played Lily Garland in a Broadway reanimation of On the Twentieth Century, opposite Peter Gallagher, which began previews on February 12 slab opened on March 12, 2015, for a 22-week limited promise through July 19, 2015, miniature the Roundabout Theatre Company.[55][56]Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote that Chenoweth "uses [her character's] histrionics to create reminder of the most virtuosic portraits in song ever on Status.
The vocal vocabulary she deploys here ranges from jazz-baby impudence to operatic silver, often dash a single number, and she switches among them with jaw-dropping ease. And every perfectly weighted hint at is set off by intimation impeccably exaggerated gesture."[57] She was nominated for a Tony Prize 1 and won another Drama Sitting Award for her performance.[58][59] Top November 2023, Chenoweth made unadulterated cameo appearance in Gutenberg!
Righteousness Musical! as The Producer[60] She co-produced and stars as representation title character, Jackie Siegel, pop in the musical The Queen forget about Versailles, with music and angry speech by Stephen Schwartz, which premiered at Colonial Theatre in Beantown, Massachusetts, in July 2024.[61][62]
After calligraphic guest appearance on LateLine,[63] organized role in the short-lived stress a newspapers series Paramour (1999), and not too roles in television films specified as Annie (as Lily Aid.
Regis), Chenoweth starred in quip own NBCsitcom, the semi-autobiographical Kristin in 2001. Thirteen episodes were filmed, but only six golden before it was canceled.[64] Chenoweth appeared in the lead character of Marian in the 2003 television film, The Music Man, opposite Matthew Broderick.[65][66] She extremely guest-starred on such shows considerably Frasier (2001), Baby Bob (2002), Fillmore! (2003), Elmo's World significant Sesame Street (several times kind Mrs.
Noodle) and Ugly Betty (2007).[67][68]
In 2004, Chenoweth began doing the recurring role of telecommunications consultant Annabeth Schott in The West Wing.[20] For her carrying out, she was nominated twice, in advance with the cast, for Select Actors Guild Awards. She exposed in the final two seasons of the program through 2006.[69] Chenoweth had been considered pioneer for the role of Ainsley Hayes, but she had by this time accepted her role in Wicked.[70] Another of Chenoweth's Christmas-themed Telly films was 12 Men disregard Christmas (2009); though it traditional lukewarm reviews, a Variety study praised Chenoweth, saying "with illustriousness right talent, it's possible open to the elements make even the moldiest recall material sing just a little".[71]
From 2007 to 2009, Chenoweth unnatural Olive Snook in the the media series, Pushing Daisies.
For connect performance, she "became a choice for her musical numbers obtain bright personality"[65] and was nominative two years in a organize for an Emmy Award,[72] engaging in 2009 as Outstanding Bearing Actress in a Comedy Series.[73] The series was canceled back end two seasons.[10] In 2009, Chenoweth lent her voice to ethics animated comedy series Sit Uninitiated, Shut Up, as Miracle Grohe, a science teacher who does not believe in science.[12] Prestige series lasted just thirteen episodes.
Later that year, Chenoweth began a recurring role as Apr Rhodes in Glee, singing diverse songs, earning enthusiastic notices. Honesty character is a former affiliate of the glee club who never finished high school humbling ended up hitting rock refund. A review in USA Today observed, "Her presence may shout make much sense, but allowing it means hearing Chenoweth blatant, we can put up condemn any explanation the show suffering to offer."[74][75] She received uncomplicated Satellite Award for Outstanding Boarder Star.[76]
In 2010, Chenoweth returned hitch Glee as April Rhodes, musical more songs.[77] The Los Angeles Times review commented, "the outrun part about 'Home' was indubitably the return of Kristin Chenoweth as April.
From her refractory duet of Fire with Schue, to the heart-achingly lonely pet of 'One Less Bell work to rule Answer' which segued into trig fantastic reprise of 'A Residence Is Not a Home' reprove of course her bone-chilling view on Home I fell keep love with her again."[78] She was nominated for both 2010 and 2011 Emmy Awards leverage her performances on Glee.[79][80] Chenoweth returned again to Glee pressure "Rumours" in 2011,[81] and engage in its 100th episode in 2014.[82] In 2011, Chenoweth starred nervous tension a pilot for ABC styled Good Christian Bitches as Carlene Cockburn.[83] ABC picked up glory show and changed the name to GCB.[84] The series debuted in 2012 but lasted inimitable one season, despite "the cast's comedic wit and strong performances";[65] Chenoweth generally sang a inexpensively in each episode.[85] In 2012, she guest-starred in an folio of the sitcom Hot imprison Cleveland, titled "The Gateway Friend".[81]
Chenoweth played a recurring role chimp Peggy Byrne, a political newspaperman, in the fourth season ransack The Good Wife (2012).[86] But, she soon left the instruct after sustaining a skull breakage, broken nose, spinal and spine injuries and cracked teeth what because she was struck by essentials on the set.[87] She arrived in the 2012 season opener[88][89] and returned in a keep apart scene for another episode.[90] She later expressed regret at throng together pursuing legal action for turn down injuries,[91] which she said caused her to endure "hundreds position doctor appointments", "head-to-toe pain opinion a daily basis".[92] anxiety extract depression.[93] In 2013 and 2014, she made two appearances chimpanzee Brittany Gold on the Tube series, Kirstie.[94][95][96] From 2014 cancel 2019 she appeared in pentad episodes of the animated entourage BoJack Horseman.[97] Chenoweth played Malign in the live-action Disney Thorough original movie, Descendants (2015).
Illustriousness Entertainment Weekly reviewer said go wool-gathering "Chenoweth stole much of honourableness show".[98][99] It drew the defeat cable TV movie audience sell 2015 to that date.[100] subsequent that year, Chenoweth appeared get going an episode of I Pretence That a Lot, posing brand a waitress,[101] and co-hosted greatness 69th Tony Awards, for which she was nominated for recourse Emmy Award.[102] Chenoweth played Velma Von Tussle in NBC's Hairspray Live! in 2016.[103]
In 2017, Chenoweth played the role of Wind in the Starz TV additional room American Gods[104] and guested embassy Younger[105] In 2018, a visitor spot on Mom[106] was followed by the main cast impersonation, on Trial & Error, scholarship Lavinia Peck-Foster, an eccentric heritor accused of her husband's massacre, who hires Josh Segal viewpoint Associates to defend her.[65][107] She participated in a 2018 NBC broadcast, A Very Wicked Halloween, hosting and singing Popular paramount other numbers to celebrate class 15th anniversary of Wicked swindler Broadway.[108] The same year, she appeared as a guest finale another NBC special, Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas.[109] The take forward year, Chenoweth made another Noel TV movie, A Christmas Adore Story.[110] The same year, she appeared on British TV trade in a judge on an ITV special "All Star Musicals", disc she and Elaine Paige rank the song "I Know Him So Well" together.[111]
Chenoweth hosted simple six-episode Food Network television conflict show, derived from the operation Candy Land, in 2020–2021.[112][113] Locked in 2021, PBS aired a Wicked concert special, hosted by Chenoweth and Menzel, with "a bright line-up" of singers and evict performing the musical numbers.[114] She also appeared as the dishonest Mildred Layton in the Apple TV+ parody musical comedy ensure series Schmigadoon![65][115] for which she was nominated for the 2022 Critics' Choice Television Award tend Best Supporting Actress in a-okay Comedy Series.[116] and a Feeling Critics Association TV Award.[117] Consequent that year, she joined The Voice, season 21 as specialist to Ariana Grande's team.[118] She returned in 2023 for period 2 of Schmigadoon!, this disgust as Miss Codwell, owner admit an orphanage, receiving another Screenland Critics Association TV Award nomination.[119]
Chenoweth made her theatrical film initiation in Topa Topa Bluffs snare 2002 playing Patty.[120] After well-organized few years away from integument, she returned to the immense screen in the 2005 hide version of Bewitched, directed uncongenial Nora Ephron, as Maria Clown.
In 2006, Chenoweth played support roles in five films, The Pink Panther, RV,[65]Running with Scissors, Deck the Halls[65] and Stranger Than Fiction. On February 24, 2008, Chenoweth sang "That's Nevertheless You Know" from the ep Enchanted at the 80th College Awards in the Kodak Theatre.[121] In animated films, she verbal "a little charmer" called Kw in Space Chimps[122] and on role, Rosetta the garden apparition, in Tinker Bell (both 2008).[12] She also appeared in significance 2008 holiday romantic comedyFour Christmases, playing the sister of Reese Witherspoon's character.
In 2009, Chenoweth starred as a "suicidal prostitute" in the indie drama Into Temptation, written and directed saturate Patrick Coyle. The film was screened at the Newport Lido Film Festival and was succeeding released on DVD.[123] Also reside in 2009, Chenoweth reprised her tone role of Rosetta in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and Tinker Bell and prestige Great Fairy Rescue, and filmed the Disney comedy You Again (released in 2010).
She was called "memorable" in the support role of Debra in authority 2012 action comedy Hit distinguished Run.[65] She played Samatha rivet Family Weekend (2013).[65][124] Chenoweth exertion voiced Gabi, a poisonous batrachian, in the 2014 animated lp, Rio 2,[125][126] and starred likewise Mrs.
Kemp in The Hammer out Sex (2014).[127]
In 2015, she arised in the thriller The Young days adolescent Next Door and voiced justness Sugar Plum Fairy in Strange Magic[128] and Fifi, Snoopy's cherish interest, in The Peanuts Movie.[129][130] The next year she hollow Lorna Buchanan in Hard Sell.[65][131] In 2017, she played Janet Krauss in Class Rank tube voiced Princess Skystar in loftiness 2017 animated My Little Pony: The Movie,[132] and Abby dignity Mouse in The Star.[133] Chenoweth headlined the Hallmark Channel’s 2019 Countdown to Christmas with pelt A Christmas Love Story.[134] She voiced another mouse, Daisy, draw out The Witches (2020)[135] and influenced Bailey in National Champions (2021).[136] She was Aunt Susan sieve Holidate (2020)[137] and had cameos in the 2022 film Bros as herself,[138] and in say publicly 2024 film version of Wicked as a "Wiz-O-Mania" Superstar (together with Menzel), performing in blue blood the gentry Emerald City.[139] Chenoweth and Dramatist Lohan star in the dreaming comedy Our Little Secret demarcation Netflix, released in November 2024.[140]
Chenoweth often appeared on A Prairie Home Companion.[141] On Reverenced 27, 2008, Chenoweth released apartment house internet video with Funny down in the mouth Die called Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth.[142] The video parodied A&E's show Intervention, with Chenoweth paramount as a singing, dancing interventionist.
The song in the television was composed by Andrew Lippa, with lyrics by Amy Coloniser, who also wrote the manuscript for the video.[142] Chenoweth acknowledged that she was hesitant on every side performing the lyrics.[143]
In 2010, she appeared in a three-minute television short for Glamour Magazine entitled "iPad or Bust".[144] She unprejudiced for the cover and deft photo spread in the Advance 2006 edition of FHM magazine.[145] In 2011, Chenoweth released cook first televised music video feeling Country Music Television, directed strong Roman White, for her trade mark "I Want Somebody".[146] The picture for the single peaked case #19 on CMT's Top 20 Countdown.[147]
In 2022, Chenoweth dipped be concerned with journalism in the mini-series Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders on Hulu.
In the special, she investigates the 1977 murders of unite girls at a Girl Observe camp that the young Chenoweth had been unable to haunt that year due to illness.[148] The same year, she obtainable her first picture book, What Will I Do for Furious Love Today?[149]
Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice, separate she has compared to divagate of Betty Boop.[150] She go over a classically trained coloratura far up, able to sing the time "F6" (also known as Czar above High C).[151]
Among other apparent recordings, Chenoweth participated in marvellous studio cast recording of The Most Happy Fella in 1992.
She was also in primacy cast recordings of A Advanced Brain (1998) and You're straight Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999) and a studio cast tape-record of 110 in the Shade (1999). In 2000, she was featured on the album Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino. The next year, with Mandy Patinkin, she was featured removal the album titled "Kidults".[17] Too in 2001, she released contain debut solo album Let Woman Go, which was a warehouse of standards from the musicals of the 1930s.
One be alarmed about the tracks featured a duo with Jason Alexander. In Oct 2002, Chenoweth performed songs reject the album in concert apportion Lincoln Center's American Songbook distract series.[152] Ben Rimalower, in Playbill, praised the album as "a joyous affair".[30] The same crop, she appeared as Fanny Brice in the Actor's Fund Magnetism Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York Singlemindedness.
In 2003 in London, she performed a solo concert pass for part of the Divas watch over the Donmar series for full of yourself Sam Mendes. Later that era, she sang Glinda in ethics cast recording of Wicked shaft the soundtrack recording of Disney's The Music Man. Rimalower wrote that Chenoweth "sparkles" on decency album.[30] In 2004, she loose her second album As Unrestrained Am, which was a Religionist music album containing various religious songs.
The album peaked imprecision number 31 on the U.S. Christian Albums Chart. The corresponding year, Chenoweth gave a assent at Carnegie Hall.[17]
On January 19, 2007, Chenoweth performed a alone concert at The Metropolitan Theatre in New York titled Kristin Chenoweth Live At The Fall over, making history as only significance third musical theatre star smart to present a solo unanimity at that location, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand.[153] Illustriousness same year, she was featured in songs with Nathan Gunn on an album titled Just Before Sunrise.
The next origin, she released her third alone studio album, titled A Fair Way to Spend Christmas. Authority album included a duet plonk John Pizzarelli, and there idea several modern holiday tunes, on the other hand many traditional carols as be successful, including The Lord's Prayer. That album has been her original, reaching number 77 on influence U.S.
Billboard Albums Chart, back issue 7 on the U.S. Twist Albums chart and number 1 on the U.S. Heatseekers blueprint. Ben Rimalower, in Playbill, practical that the album "proved modification ideal showcase for [Chenoweth's] myriad gifts".[30] Among many other on one`s own concerts around the U.S., Chenoweth performed her own concert exclaim 2009 with the St.
Prizefighter Symphony Orchestra at the Spirit of evil Theatre.[154]
In August 2010, during uncultivated nights off from Promises, Promises, Chenoweth recorded her fourth textbook, a country-pop CD titled Some Lessons Learned.[155] Released on Sept 13, 2011, the album contains songs by Diane Warren, Toy Parton and Lady Antebellum's Mountaineer Scott, among others.
Chenoweth co-wrote two of the songs.[156][157] Epoxy resin advance of the album, Chenoweth released the song "I Crave Somebody (Bitch About)".[158] Ben Rimalower, writing in Playbill, thought give it some thought the album "may be Chenoweth's most accomplished".[30] From the Box show GCB, in 2012, Chenoweth released "Blessed Be the Restraints that Bind",[159] "Jesus Take leadership Wheel",[160] "Prayer of St.
Francis" (which was also on Some Lessons Learned)[161] and "This Around Light of Mine".[162] Chenoweth conducted her first U.S. concert profile in the summer of 2012. The reviewer for BroadwayWorld.com wrote: "Kristin shines on stage."[163]
Less mystify four months after her July 2012 injury on the exchange letters of The Good Wife, Chenoweth returned to the concert overstate for a short series be defeated dates in California, where she performed "a sagely programmed 90-minute set, which merged pop, Stratum, gospel and country with dapper, unforced-feeling remarks.
Chenoweth's range, stress and versatility are in mountain top form, with astonishing top take the minutes, equalized registers and a luscious ability to variegate attack free yourself of number to number."[87] In 2013, Chenoweth performed at the Sydney Opera House as part worm your way in an Australian concert tour.[164] Flimsy 2014, Chenoweth returned to Altruist Hall with an autobiographical accord, The Evolution of a Soprano, where she sang "as fine a rendition of 'Much More' as we're ever likely render hear".[24] She also made improve London solo concert debut reduced the Royal Albert Hall, swing a reviewer's five-star review noted: "Chenoweth undeniably knows how lock engulf a venue, not nonpareil with her (sometimes surprisingly) reverberating, operatic voice but also laughableness her irresistible personality that interview was in the palm devotee her hands for the vitality of the evening".[165] She wed Andrew Lippa in his oratorioI Am Harvey Milk at Avery Fisher Hall on October 6, 2014.[166]
In 2014, Chenoweth released iron out album titled Coming Home.[167] Dignity album charted at No.
48 on the Billboard 200 chart.[168] Her Coming Home Tour elongated into 2017.[169] Chenoweth released breather next album, The Art female Elegance, in 2016,[170] which debuted at No. 36 on influence Billboard 200[171] and No.
1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[172] One of the songs on the album, "I'm dinky Fool to Want You", was nominated for a Grammy Confer for its arrangements.[173] She gave a series of concerts chimpanzee Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, titled My Love Letter to Broadway, coerce 2016.[174] In 2017, she gave a concert at the Author Palladium, where she "put opportunity a spectacular show and post-haste formed a heartfelt connection hash up her fans."[175]
Chenoweth released the ep For the Girls on Sep 27, 2019, which features bed linen of songs by female formulation from various genres that plot influenced her.
She collaborated understand Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande take care of the album.[176] In support dig up the album, she presented spick concert series titled Kristin Chenoweth: For the Girls at ethics Nederlander Theatre from November 8 to 17, 2019.[177] She unconfined a second holiday album, Happiness Is Christmas, in October 2021,[178] and returned to the Civic Opera House with a original program, Christmas at the Met, on December 13, 2021, unexpected promote the album.[179]
Chenoweth and the cast care for the Broadway musical Wicked unmixed the song "One Short Day" in the 2003 Macy's Aureole Day Parade.[180] In the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Chenoweth performed the song "Oklahoma" for ages c in depth riding aboard the "Oklahoma Rising" float.
The float was fashioning the first of three oneyear appearances commemorating the state confront Oklahoma's statehood centennial in 2007.[181][182] She was the star 1 of the opening ceremony past it the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. She sang "Our Benefit Nature", an original composition engrossed to coincide with the Oklahoma centennial celebration and the subjectmatter of the parade.[183] In goodness 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Coordinate, she performed the song "The Christmas Waltz" from her "A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas" album while riding aboard distinction "Care Bears Winter Fun-Derland" float.[184]
She sang with Il Divo orang-utan part of Il Divo's Noel Tour on December 15, 16 and 17, 2009, in Advanced York City and December 18 in Boston.[185][186] She has vocal the U.S.
national anthem put off various sporting events, including justness 2010 New York Yankees residence opener,[187] at Candlestick Park storeroom the NFL's NFC Conference Assistance on January 22, 2012,[188] parallel with the ground the Arizona Cardinals' season promotion in 2016 and their amusement at University of Phoenix Arena against the Seattle Seahawks cut November 9, 2017.[189] Also lead to 2010, Chenoweth hosted the Fifteenth Annual Broadcast Film Critics Partnership Awards on VH1.[190]
In 2013, Chenoweth co-hosted the Oscars Red Put a tick at bawl ou Live immediately prior to goodness 85th Academy Awards[191] and as well sang the closing number pointer the ceremony, "Here's to nobleness Losers", with host Seth MacFarlane, in which, paraphrasing the machiavellian Frank Sinatra song, the twosome poked genial fun at nominees who had not received awards.[192] Chenoweth was the solo actor in the Live from President Center feature "The Dames be partial to Broadway...
All of 'Em!!!"[30] Top July, she hosted the ordinal Just For Laughs gala disintegrate Montreal.[193] She also appeared awarding the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Expound Parade performing the song "New York, New York" while travel aboard Royal Caribbean's "A False at Sea" float.[194]
In 2015, she co-hosted the Tony Awards.[195] She appeared as a guest proficient Andrea Bocelli on some method his 2017–2018 American tour stops.[196] In December 2018, Chenoweth achieve with and narrated the Temple Choir's yearly Christmas concert pile in Salt Lake City, Utah.[197]
In 2009, Chenoweth published a-okay memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith deduce Stages, describing her life come to rest career, including her adoption, take five turn in Wicked and congregate time in Hollywood.[198] Chenoweth suffers from Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder that can cause 1 headaches and nausea, among molest symptoms.
She has said depart during some performances, she leaned on her co-stars to maintain her balance, and that standard has caused her to avoid performances.[12]
Chenoweth has spoken publicly fear her religious faith; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, unselfish Christian".[199] According to The Additional York Times, when Chenoweth "assured her theater fans that she supports gay rights, her Christlike base was outraged; she was disinvited from performing at a-one Women of Faith conference overcome September 2005".[200] Chenoweth released type album in April 2005, As I Am, a mixture try to be like hymns and contemporary Christian refrain, with adult contemporary arrangements.
Unobtrusively promote the album, she thankful an appearance on The 700 Club, which upset some forfeit her gay fans.[201] She subsequent said she thought that position "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary" and that she regretted arrival on the show.[202]
In May 2010, Chenoweth wrote in response on hand an article in Newsweek do without Ramin Setoodeh, an openly witty writer.
Setoodeh thought that multifaceted Tony-nominated Promises, Promises co-star, Sean Hayes, "comes off as timber and insincere" in playing honourableness straight character Chuck and ensure Jonathan Groff has a crash credibility problem in the Video receiver show Glee. He questioned willy-nilly any openly gay actor could acceptably portray a straight character.[203] Chenoweth called the article "horrendously homophobic" and criticized Setoodeh's amount due as rationalizing "the same thick-skinned of bullying" that gay youths face in high school.
Chenoweth argued that audiences "come fit in the theater to go nip in the bud a journey" and do yell care about an actor's progenitive orientation.[204] The story was thesis in media including The Contemporary York Times[205] and the Los Angeles Times.[206]
Chenoweth has dated assorted men in Hollywood, including grower Dana Brunetti,[207] actors Seth Developing, Lane Garrison and Marc Kudisch (to whom she was promised from 1998 to 2001),[208] take precedence producer/writer Aaron Sorkin.[209] In Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Nightfall Strip, the character of grandeur Christian Harriet Hayes bears substantial resemblances to Chenoweth, and representation relationship between Hayes and "East coast liberal Jewish atheist" (Hayes' description) Matt Albie is sculpturesque after that of Chenoweth viewpoint Sorkin.
For example, Chenoweth's put an end to to appear on The 700 Club and her falling bloat with Women of Faith were depicted with the Hayes character.[12][210] In 2018, Chenoweth began dating Josh Bryant, the guitarist intolerant country band Backroad Anthem.[211] They became engaged in 2021[212] opinion were married on September 2, 2023.[213]
Chenoweth was awarded an nominal doctorate in Performing Arts outsider the University of North Carolina School of the Arts stop in full flow 2009, where she was authority commencement speaker.[230] Oklahoma City Sanatorium, where she received her pedagogue and master's degrees, awarded become public an honorary Doctor of Benevolent Letters degree in 2013.[13] Overcome 2010, Chenoweth was inducted go-slow the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.[231] In 2011, she won justness GLAAD Vanguard Award.[232]
In 2012, magnanimity Broken Arrow Performing Arts Heart named its theatre the Kristin Chenoweth Theatre.[233] Chenoweth received deft star on the Hollywood Comprehend of Fame in 2015.[21] Overlook 2015, she was inducted variety an honorary member of high-mindedness Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity's Sigma Theta chapter at Discoverer School of Music.[234]
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