Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth Smart, Nice gifted and Beautiful native and self-described. He is A personality is a star on Broadway, on TV and in movies, and she is very much at home in opera.

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Chenoweth work as Olive Snook in the ABC series "Pushing Daisies,” realized she wanted to be a performer as a child, while singing in church.

She first planned to be a ballerina but realized she wasn’t tall enough. Then she planned an opera career, earning a master’s degree in opera performance and winning a scholarship to the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

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Two weeks before Chenoweth was to start her studies, she helped a friend move to New York City, won an audition for the Marx Brothers musical "Animal Crackers” — and that was it.

"I still train, and I still study voice constantly,” she said in a telephone interview from Oklahoma, where she was visiting her family over the holidays. "I still sing operatic roles and get invited to sing opera (including a proposed role at New York’s Met). I just got sidetracked to Broadway.”

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Chenoweth’s screen career came about by accident, she says. When she won a Tony Award for "You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” people in Hollywood took notice. That led to a short-lived TV series "that led to ‘Annie,’ which led to ‘Music Man,’ which led to ‘West Wing.’ It was like a domino effect.” She has a new NBC series, "Legally Mad,” coming in spring.

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Although she has to "dial (her performance energy) up or down” depending on whether she’s on stage or in front of a camera, she says, "For me, it’s all the same: acting, singing, dancing. It comes from the same artistic place. How we tackle them is different, but it comes from the same center.”

She says her concerts are "very eclectic.” She sings songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Kern, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Foster and music written for her.

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