Kristin Chenoweth
She graduated from Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) Sorority. Chenoweth earned a bachelor's degree in musical theater and a master's degree in opera performance. While at OCU, she won the title of "Miss OCU" and went on to win first runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991. She performed at Opryland USA. She won a "most talented up-and-coming singer" award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts; she turned down the scholarship when she auditioned and won a part on an off-Broadway show.
Chenoweth made her Broadway debut in a production of Molière's Scapin starring Bill Irwin, followed in the spring of 1997 by the musical Steel Pier by John Kander and Fred Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World award. The following season, she appeared in the City Center Encores! production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band and the Lincoln Center Theater production of William Finn's A New Brain. She has performed several times on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion.
During the 1998–1999 season, she performed the role of Sally in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown — although Chenoweth auditioned for the role of Patty, her unique voice and talent led director Michael Mayer and musical director Andrew Lippa to scrap Patty and create the character of Charlie Brown's younger sister, Sally, specifically for Chenoweth — the production won Chenoweth the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards as the season's Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She then starred in the Broadway comedy Epic Proportions, followed by appearances in ABC's television adaptation of the musical Annie (as Lily St. Regis), and in the leading role of Daisy Gamble in the City Center Encores! production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Chenoweth as Glinda in Wicked.In 2003, Chenoweth performed songs from her album Let Yourself Go in concert for Lincoln Center's 5th American Songbook. She also performed in City Center Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash.
In London, she was involved in Divas at Donmar for director Sam Mendes, then appeared in the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City.
Chenoweth was a part of ABC's An American Celebration at Ford's Theater with Kelsey Grammer, NBC's Salute to the Olympic Winners, The Kennedy Center Gala honoring Julie Andrews, and an episode of Frasier on NBC. She also starred as Marian Paroo in the ABC television production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, opposite Matthew Broderick.
In October 2003, Chenoweth returned to Broadway in Wicked, a musical about the early years of the witches of Oz. She was nominated for a Tony as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Glinda, but lost to co-star Idina Menzel (as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West).
Chenoweth's role in Wicked also brought the opportunity to co-star in Nora Ephron's 2005 film version of Bewitched. The film's star, Nicole Kidman, had attended a performance of Wicked and was so impressed with Chenoweth's charisma and stage presence that Kidman requested to Ephron that Chenoweth be cast in the film. Chenoweth got the part of Maria Kelly, Kidman's character's best friend.
Chenoweth has also performed leading roles at the Goodspeed Opera House and the Guthrie Theatre, and she was chosen by the late Jerome Robbins as the guest soloist in his West Side Story Suite of Dances at New York City Ballet.
In television, Chenoweth starred in a short-lived sitcom, Kristin, for NBC that ran for six episodes. It was a mid-season replacement in 2001 that co-starred Jon Tenney. Beginning in the sixth season (2004–2005) of The West Wing, Chenoweth had a recurring role playing media consultant Annabeth Schott, and became a main cast member in the show's seventh and last season (2005 - 2006). She performed "For Good", a song she had sung in Wicked, at the memorial service for her friend and West Wing costar John Spencer.
In 2006, she appeared in five films including The Pink Panther, RV, Stranger Than Fiction, Running with Scissors and Deck the Halls.
Chenoweth then will star in Asphalt Beach, and is slated to portray Dusty Springfield in an upcoming film on the singer's life.
Chenoweth is currently starring on Broadway in the production of The Apple Tree, open from December 14, 2006 to March 11, 2007
Chenoweth is currently working on her third album, still untitled.
Chenoweth is slated to perform in the opera Ghosts of Versailles in the 2009 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Chenoweth is currently working on a pilot for a new sitcom with Nathan Lane.
Chenoweth is also scheduled to perform in Mel Brook's Broadway adaptation of his film Young Frankenstein. The musical-comedy will also feature fellow Tony-winner Sutton Foster, among others.
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Kristi Dawn Chenoweth (born July 24 1968) is an American singer and Tony Awardwinning American musical theatre film and television actress. Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice in FHMs March 200... More at Perfect People - Fri, ...
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Kristin Chenoweth?s Dusty Springfield Biopic
According to an earlier report by The Hollywood Reporter, Kristin Chenoweth is set to star in the Dusty Springfield biopic produced by Universal Pictures. Jessica Sharzer is going to write the screenplay and at the same time direct the ...
Today is Kristin Chenoweth day on my blog...
I love her performance of Glitter and be Gay from the opera Candide. This song makes me wish I were a coloratura. Sigh.... And I totally need to work this one up... The girl in 14 G. And how cute is this?!? Taylor the Latte Boy.
Kristin Chenoweth on Robot Chicken - Princess and Popeye
If you know me from YouTube, you know that I am a die-hard Kristin Chenoweth fan (if you want to call it that, haha!) This video contains two of the skits she did voiceovers for in the Robot Chicken episode Squaw Bury Shortcake. ...
