Kristen Chenoweth's new CD--release date, etc. AND Carnegie Hall

When will this be released and what type of songs are on the CD ?

Also, Liz Smith reports that she will perform at Carnegie Hall for one night in September--any updates ?

No..Kristen is not doing Patti's Horses

She's covering "Pissing in a River"....

...I hear she interpolates a High B flat on the line:

"My bowels are empty, excreting your soul"

all the pattis? wheres patti LABELLE?

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Updated On: 1/6/04 at 03:04 PM

Simply, I must do penance for omittimg the fabulous Ms. Labelle. You are right to scold.

I wrote this as a goof. But you know...if she REALLY did it, it would be...kinda awesome!

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voiceanth:
What is with your vehement disgust of Kristin Chenoweth? I have never seen someone devote so much effort and colorful descriptions to berate someone. I respect your opinion if you don't like her, but WOW!! Some of the stuff you say makes ME wanna cry.

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Zanna...i don't want to make you cry...at least not over Kristen...

Here's what bothers me..

Your either a Broadway Singer.

Or an opera singer..

you can sing opera flavored Broadway musicals, true...

but you can't TURN what is not intended to be one INTO ONE when it suits your high notes......that's called being a shallow, show-off-y singer...

and it does not serve the song or the composer's intentions...

I hope she grows out of it...

I pray that she has used Barbras "Higher Ground" album as an example of what NOT to do.

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Sheekala-do you know why she broke off the engagement? Don't go being all "poor Marc". Krisin doesn't lead the same type of lifestyle many other Broadway performers lead, and I respect her for sticking to her convictions. She realized that her and Marc's relationship wouldn't work when they were talking about religion and she said "I beleive the messiah has come, and you don't... but that's ok." This difference would have caused way too much stress on their relationship. Some people can make that work, others can't. I'm just glad for both of them that she realized it before they got married.

What's really sad are idiots just take up space so they can have their ego stroked.

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Anth,

I think that it is unfair for you to be criticizing Kristin so.

How do you know that people don't find Kristin's stratospheric high notes to be thrilling?

It is not as if what she's doing is not in character. Furthermore, I feel the role of Glinda has much more flexibility with "hamming" up the role. Personally, I feel that she is just having fun with the role and discovering new things to play with and make it more fun for herself. You know, actors do that to keep their interpretations, and performances fresh. As long as it isn't seriously taking attention from the other performers or hindering the production, (which it isn't....) There is nothing wrong with what she is doing.

Furthermore, how do you know if she wasn't instructed to do the things she's now doing? Or if she was told to add higher notes for characterization? You or anyone else don't have a copy of the finalized score for you or anyone else to be commenting on what she's "adding" or "hamming up" while singing.

As for whether Kristin is a performer, or if she's got it.....She wouldn't be where she is now, if she didn't have it.

As for Idina....I respect her also, but not because of the reasons you seem to put her on a pedestal....Elphaba is not a role where you can really be flexible in interpretation - and she has moments of humor, but it's not a comic role. So of course Idina has to ground her performance and make sure that her interpretation doesn't come off as being silly and too much.


Cheers,
The Balladeer

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Thank goodness...I thought I was the only one who felt this way. While Kristin was very good in Wicked, I thought she was really overrated. I went into the show expecting her a once-in-a-lifetime performance from her after everything I've read, but I walked out gushing about Idina. Kristin stole the spotlight(in a bad way) in ways that her understudy, Melissa Bell Chait, did not, and I found Melissa equally capable and funny. The role was written for Kristin, and she has said in many interveiws that she helped Winnie and Stephen write Wicked so her part was larger, so she really does have a lot of input on the material. Let's just hope Idina gets the tony, because she is, if anything, UNDERrated.

What opera will Kristin be doing?

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Who is writing the music to this opera?

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