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Kristin Chenoweth
Biography
Actress/singer Kristin Chenoweth went from strength to strength in the late '90s and early 2000s, beginning with an award-winning stage career in musicals and straight plays that expanded into television and a recording contract. She grew up in Broken Arrow, OK, and attended Oklahoma City University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in musical theater and a master's degree in opera performance. She won a Most Talented Up-and-Coming Singer award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which entitled her to a full scholarship at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. But before starting there, she auditioned for an off-Broadway production of Dames at Sea, and when she got the part she opted to move to New York and turn professional instead. She followed Dames at Sea with a stint in the long-running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks. She also played leading roles at the prestigious regional theaters the Goodspeed Opera House and the Guthrie Theatre, and Jerome Robbins chose her as the guest soloist in his West Side Story Suite of Dances at New York City Ballet.

Chenoweth made her Broadway debut in Scapin, then moved on to the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Steel Pier (April 24, 1997), for which she won a Theatre World Award.
Selected Discography

As I Am
2005