The Presenting Series season of premier artists lights up the weekend with An Intimate Evening with Kristin Chenoweth at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 21, at 7:30 p.m. Single tickets to this concert by the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer are on sale now.
Kristin Chenoweth’s career spans film, television, voiceover, and stage. In 2015, Chenoweth received a coveted star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Pushing Daisies. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and she was also nominated for her original role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked in 2004. Chenoweth has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and for a People’s Choice Award for her role on Glee. In 2009, she wrote an upliftingly candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, A Little Bit Wicked, which debuted on the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller List. Chenoweth is set to star as Madeline in the upcoming musical comedy Death Becomes Her, an adaptation of the 1992 film directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Chenoweth has performed to sold-out audiences across the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. In 2014, she released a CD and DVD of her own live concert performance, Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home and in 2016 released The Art of Elegance, her first album of American Songbook classics via Concord Records. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Current Jazz and Traditional Jazz charts and #1 on Amazon’s Vocal Pop chart. Chenoweth currently stars in the second season of NBC’s hit comedy series Trial & Error. The second season returned in July 2018, with Kristin receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Heiress Lavinia Peck-Foster. She is currently working on her next album, set for release in 2019.
In film, Chenoweth voiced the role of Gabi in the hit animated film Rio 2; Fifi, Snoopy’s beloved French poodle, in The Peanuts Movie; and Princess Skystar in Lionsgate/Hasbro’s My Little Pony: The Movie. Additional film credits include Hard Sell, The Boy Next Door, Deck the Halls, Twelve Men of Christmas, Four Christmases, RV, Bewitched, The Pink Panther, Hit & Run and Family Weekend.
