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"Life's too short. I'm not." You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV-The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her huge hit sitcom Kristin on NBC. Or her appearance on Pat Robertson's The 700 Club. The 700 Club? Kristin is a wonderful collection of contradictions- but everyone who's ever met her remembers her as the little girl with the big voice. At four foot eleven, Kristin Chenoweth is an immense talent in a petite but powerful package. In this lively, laugh-out-loud audio book, Kristin shares her journey from Oklahoma beauty queen to Broadway leading lady, reflecting on how faith and family have kept her grounded in the dysfunctional rodeo of showbiz. The daughter of an engineer and nurse, Kristin was singing in front of thousands at Baptist conventions by age twelve and winning beauty pageants by age twenty-two. (Well, actually she was second runner-up almost every freaking time. But, hey, she's not bitter.) On her way to a career as a professional opera singer, she stopped in New York to visit a friend and went on a whim to an audition. Through a combination of talent, hard work, and (she's quick to add) the grace of God, Kristin took Broadway by storm. But of course, into every storm, the occasional drizzle of disaster must fall.
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From Publishers Weekly
Currently seen as waitress Olive Snook in ABC's Pushing Daisies, the Tony Award–winning singer-actress Chenoweth looks back at her multifaceted career, which has encompassed recordings (As I Am), films (Four Christmases), television (The West Wing), Broadway (Wicked), solo concerts, animation (Tinker Bell), opera and Opryland. Beginning with the intriguing speculation that her unknown birth mother could be watching her career rise, she recalls her Oklahoma childhood and vocal training when she learned "[t]he music didn't come from notes and lyrics; it came from life and mileage." Personal revelations, such as her experiences with Ménière's disease, are balanced with bubbling backstage anecdotes. A chapter about her on-and-off relationship with writer-producer Aaron Sorkin includes a section written by Sorkin himself. With digressions, detours and words like "whack-a-noodle," the book is busy with show-biz flip quips and writing reminiscent of Julia Phillips's You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (minus the drugs and invective). Chenoweth has a frenzied, free-associative style; it's as if she's speaking breathlessly into a tape recorder between sitcom scenes. To use her phrase, this book is "a hoot and a holler"—a fast-paced frolic that her fans will appreciate. (Apr. 14)
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About the Author
Kristin Chenoweth is an award-winning musical theatre performer, opera singer, television and film actress, and an exclusively signed Sony Masterworks recording artists. Visit www.kristin-chenoweth.com for more information on Kristin and her recordings: A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas, Let Yourself Go and As I Am.
Joni Rodgers is the author of several books including Bald in the Land of Big Hair, a memoir of her own unlikely journey from cancer patient to celebrity memoir guru.
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Los Angeles, California
February 8, 2008
I face myself in the full-length mirror, stability in one hand, sex in the other.
The white Armani gown is the dress every little girl dreams of. A lot of big girls, too. A line of blushing attendants, all picture-pretty, clutch their bouquets of roses and baby's breath, each on the arm of a dashing, tuxedoed counterpart. My best always-a-bridesmaid buddy Denny Downs is looking at me with wide, moist eyes, telling me how perfect it all is...but suddenly I'm not sure.
A moment ago, I was ready to commit myself to the faithful friend who's supported and stood by me all these years. Then Jimmy showed up, and everything became a question. Now, here I am at the eleventh hour, wondering what might happen, who will I be, if I allow my passion to be swayed by this dangerous bad boy. Crystallized moments like this one arise in every woman's life. Moments of truth in which she makes the choices that guide her destiny. Moments that ultimately write the story of her.
Sugar or spice? I agonize. Naughty or nice?
Sensible angels whisper in my ear, but the runaway bride in me is getting restless. I am a type A "leap and a net will appear" risk-taker, and if I trust that God made me this way for a reason, then I have to believe that the risk will be worth it in the long run. Experience has taught me that we all stumble and fall; faith assures me that He'll be there to catch me when I do. My heart speaks, and I listen.
I chose Jimmy.
Jimmy Choo, that is. A fabulous pair of four-inch platform slingbacks. Setting aside the safe-and-sane character shoes I was planning to wear onstage tonight, I cast my lot with the bad boy. Oh, I know what you're thinking, and, yeah, it's not exactly Sophie's Choice. But this is Oscar night. I'm about to step out onstage in front of thousands of people -- friends, colleagues, peers, people I hope and dream of working with -- plus my parents and everyone else watching the live broadcast on television.
People keep reminding me that billions -- with a b as in bombastic and boy howdy! -- yes, billions of people all over the world will be tuned in. Even in the coziest venues, performers can and do get hurt onstage all the time. There's a broken toe for every light on Broadway. But I'm not as concerned for myself as I am for the burgeoning cast of backup dancers. This is a huge shot of résumé adrenaline for most of these kids; I don't want it to turn into some tragicomic YouTube video labeled "Cheno Falls on Ass." On the other hand, when you're four feet eleven inches you get pretty comfortable in heels.
"A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone," I tell my friend Denny, but I take the precaution of having the soles rubbered for slip-resistance. (Faith is fine, but the Lord helps those who help themselves, right?)
I'll be performing "That's How You Know," one of three Oscar-nominated songs written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for Disney's frothy fairy tale Enchanted. As Tilda Swinton collects the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Michael Clayton, the backstage cavern turns into an anthill of scurrying crew members preparing for my number, which is being staged in full-on Broadway showstopper style. Joining me on the sweeping two-story set is a village-size cast including half a dozen dancing brides niftily accessorized with dancing grooms, quick-stepping waiters, acrobatically inclined construction workers, happy townies, multiculti mariachis, and (putting us indisputably over the top) a marching band. Against a miniature backdrop of Manhattan, a battalion of gorgeous guys will form sort of a hunkpowered elevator and pass me bodily off an ornate, ten-foot-tall bridge.
A great song. A magical night. Gown by Armani and travel by hunk-o-vator. I am in grave danger of thinking it doesn't get any better than this when someone tells me, "George Clooney is on the front row." I don't ask who else is on the front row. Is there anyone else?
George Clooney needs to know that he and I are perfect for each other. We would be instantly matched on eHarmony.com. I can already see us in that ad campaign, oozing adorable, giddily telling the story of our first kiss. Happily ever after, cue Chaka Khan, roll credits. He is my Mr. Right. The problem is, I'm still in love with Mr. Writer, a man who is more likely to show up in a "Falls on Ass" video than an "Everlasting Love" commercial. Truth be told, eHarmony would not encourage me to share so much as a cab uptown with this guy. But of course this is precisely what makes him irresistible.
Never for a moment did I even fantasize that Aaron Sorkin was Mr. Right. From the day we met, he was Mr. Sets My Brain on Fire, then he evolved for a long, lovely spell into Mr. Makes Me Sing REO Speedwagon in the Shower, but there was always an undercurrent of Mr. You Are Seriously Pushing Your Luck Here, and I eventually found myself doing the ol' step-ball-change with Mr. Why Am I Banging My Head Against This Wall? Instead of coming up with a cutesy Hollywood powercouple name for us -- "Sorkoweth" or "Chenorkin" -- the tabloids wearily call us "on again/off again," which means we periodically put each other through a wrenching spate of separation, but I keep reinstating him as Mr. Might Actually Be Worth the Trouble. We are now "off again," and it's painful to not share this amazing moment with him. I love the man, and whatever happens or doesn't happen between us in the long run, I always will.
"It's in God's hands," I tell my father whenever he shakes his head about it.
The only thing I can say with utter certainty is that come what may, my feelings for George Clooney will remain unsullied. Whatever curtains rise and fall, the "Kristlooney" dream lives on.
Hosting the Oscars tonight is Jon Stewart, who's been onstage riffing about the bitter writers' strike that was recently resolved. His wry, wisenheimer humor is good medicine for our cruel but tenderhearted community.
"Welcome to the makeup sex," he said at the start of the show, and I felt a twinge of knowing exactly what he was talking about.
Aside from my periodic reunions with Mr. If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right, I've been holding my breath through the strike, terrified for the fate of Pushing Daisies, this beautiful baby bird of a TV show I've been doing. With the strike ended, we are all breathing again and anxious to get back to work this summer. Before I resume shooting the show, I'll spend the spring in New York, shoot a movie in Minneapolis, squeeze in some family time with my far-flung loved ones in Texas, Denver, and Oklahoma, do a concert with the Chicago Symphony, and give a special benefit performance for a friend in Manhattan -- all of which keeps me pleasantly occupied and comfortably distanced from L.A. with all its potential complications and painful reminders.
I make my way backstage in my Jimmy Choos. I'm getting nervous. This doesn't happen to me much anymore. Like everyone around me, I'm a seasoned pro. Stage fright is a thing of the past. But tonight, as I prepare to step onstage, a hollow, little ice cube of doubt forms in the pit of my touchy stomach. I close my eyes. Heavenly Father...
I don't have to say anything else. He knows.
Adding one last dash of adorable to the Enchanted number is Vanessa Williams's little daughter Sasha, so Vanessa is here, helping her get ready. She gives me a good-luck scrunch and tells me, "Sasha's going to be right there when you look at her."
It's good to have another Broadway girl backstage. There's no unnerving a woman who's conquered the pageant circuit and delivered eight shows a week. She's a glam-cat paragon of strength and calm. Sasha's learning early what it took me years to understand.
Crew hands hustle out the set pieces. The hunks and I brace ourselves for places.
Deep breath.
Jon Stewart catches my eye.
"You're going to knock it out of the park," he assures me.
"I feel like I could pee my pants."
Jon smiles at me without a trace of wisenheimer. "Just get out there and do what you do."Copyright © 2009 by Kristin Chenoweth
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Life's Too Short, I'm Not
By Garman Lord
That's a typical Kristin Chenoweth zinger, her comeback for people who comment on her tiny 4'-11" size, and she's got a million of 'em; Kristin is such a natural barrel of laughs and bundle of joy that you'd half expect her to be illegal in a half dozen or so states. The first time I was ever aware of her was when her song "The Girl In 14G," as a guest on Prairie Home Companion, just completely knocked me off the barstool. It's a comedy number, the lament, sung in a little girlie-girl voice, of a girl who thinks she's found the perfect Manhattan apartment, only to discover that her immediate neighbors are a jazz scat singer and an operatic soprano, both of whom regularly use their paper thin-walled apartments for rehearsal purposes. What turns a funny number into a tour de force is the way Kristin does all three voices herself, effortlessly and authentically bouncing back and forth among them as the lyric requires. It's no surprise then to learn, in this fascinating account of her life, that Kristin was originally in training as a particularly gifted operatic soprano before Broadway happened along and sidetracked her into a more conventional pop showbiz career.
With a belly laugh on pretty much every page, it's a book chock so full of showbiz anecdote that you'd have to be pretty much up yourself on the world in which Kristin's career has been immersed to properly appreciate some parts of it, which I'm not, but no matter, it's a very well written fun read from just about any perspective. It traces the life of a tiny Midwestern girl with a big funnybone, an even bigger heart and an even bigger still talent, who manages to realize a few Broadway dreams without losing her downhome Christian faith and family values along the way to stardom. Sound preachy, perhaps, stated just that way? Fear not, it isn't, not for a New York minute; her faith is just one of those aspects of a multi-faceted personality, of who she is, that you'd have to be aware of to understand Kristin properly.
That, and her sense of humor; of her marriage prospects, Kristin asks "what man could resist a singing hoo hoo that can predict the weather?" The allusions are to a youthful voice teacher who coached Kristin to "sing from your vagina," and an early dancing injury to her coccyx that left it permanently weather-sensitive, only one of the surprisingly many hardships Kristin has had to find ways to laugh off as best she may in the course of a complicated life and career. A bit of a wakeup call, surely, for any cynic such as myself who might doubt that so much deep irony, showbiz perversity and downhome faith could live comfortably cheek-by-jowl in the same personality, this book is an almost breathlessly quick, curiously refreshing read, and a show that's likely to leave you applauding, sorry to see the curtain fall, as yet another hopelessly hooked Kristin Chenoweth fan.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Really loved this book
By Diane Shafer
Really loved this book. I am a total Theatre Geek and could relate to all of the trials and tribulations of Kristin's career. Her writing is light, fun and slightly sarcastic. I laughed out loud a few times. Highly recommend it for any Kristin Chenoweth / Wicked fans out there.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Pop-u-lahr...Cheno is Deservedly Pop-u-lahr. (Well, she grows on you,)
By Michelle R
The big elephant in the room in discussing Kristin Chenoweth is the whole Christian thing. Which, of course, would not have been a big deal all that long ago, but the image many people have these days is not benevolent -- and there's good reason for that perception. Thanks Miss California.
You can't read this book or even listen to interviews with Ms. Chenoweth for long without knowing she's both a Christian and the more tolerant variety. When she tells you her best friends are gay, this is not the lead in for her to tell you why they deserve less -- she means that her best friends are gay and she wants them to have all the same rights as her other friends. She attributes her attitude to her upbringing on Oklahoma, surrounded by a loving family.
Primarily, the book is a wacky, optimist take on her life. It's rarely gossipy and the biggest question raised is why she can't seem to get it together with Aaron Sorkin -- and vice versa. These people are crazy about one another in a way that's clear to anyone reading the book -- he even writes a story in the book -- but they can't make the relationship work, both freely stating that the may or may not be together when the book is published.
There are stories of clumsiness, hair extension mishaps, a failed sitcom, winning The Tony, working on West Wing and Pushing Daisies and all of it comes off like Cheno's voice until you hear her sing -- and really hear the underlying complexities and the heart-felt notes.
This book will make you want to troll YouTube for clips. Good luck in getting "My Philosophy" out of your head. However, if someone tells you Kristin Chenoweth is lightweight or a judgmental Christian, you'll have he perfect response...
Oh yeah? That's what YOU think!
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