Tony Winner Kristin Chenoweth has come to the end of her three year journey in Oz. She will perform her last performance tonight as Glinda in the hit musical, Wicked. She was nominated for a Tony this year for Best Actress in a Musical, but lost to her costar Idina Menzel. She won the 1999 Tony for portarying Sally in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway.
Chenoweth has a full schedule ahead of her after she leaves Wicked. On September 10th she will make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall. Then she will appear in the movie musical "Asphalt Beach" described as being in the spirit of Hairspray and Grease. In January of next year she will play again at Carnegie Hall, this time with the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra for an evening devoted to the Great American Song. In 2006 she will star as Alice in a new opera based on Alice In Wonderland for the Los Angeles Opera.
Chenoweth made her Broadway debut in a production of Moliere's Scapin, followedby, in the spring of 1997, the Kander and Ebb musical Steel Pier for which she won a Theatre World Award. In 1998 she appeared in the City Center Encores! production of Strike Up the Band and the Lincoln Center Theater production of A New Brain.
Then she created the role of Sally in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. She swept the theater awards by winning the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best Actress. She then starred in the Broadway comedy Epic Proportions, followed by appearances in the televison musical Annie and The Music Man. She also starred in her own television series, Kristin. Chenoweth studied at Oklahoma City University where she earned a bachelor's degree in musical theater and a master's degree in opera performance. She was given a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, but en-route she auditoned for an off-Broadway show and won the part. She then decided to forgo her scholarship and persue a Broadway career.
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