Kristin Chenoweth, the Emmy- and Tony-winning Broadway favourite, will lead a one-night-only profit live performance this April to honor the late Roundabout Theatre Firm chief Todd Haimes.
Reuniting together with her On the Twentieth Century choreographer Warren Carlyle, Chenoweth will take the stage at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on April 15 in Kristin: An Night With Mates For Todd. Carlyle will each direct and choreograph the occasion, and Chenoweth might be joined onstage by what the non-profit theater firm is looking “a exceptional roster of Roundabout favorites for a once-in-a-lifetime live performance” celebrating Haimes.
The live performance, benefiting Roundabout’s numerous packages and initiatives together with Training at Roundabout, will come simply shy of 1 12 months since Haimes’ demise on April 19, 2023. The longtime president and CEO of Roundabout died at 66 of osteosarcoma, an aggressive most cancers.
Chenoweth was final on Broadway in a Tony-nominated efficiency in Roundabout’s On The Twentieth Century, and he or she received a Tony in 1999 for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. She originated the position of Glinda the Good Witch in Depraved in 2004, received an Emmy in 2009 for Pushing Daisies, and was twice Emmy-nominated for her position on Glee.
Her subsequent main venture is the growth of a musical based mostly on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles and the lifetime of magnificence queen, socialite and TV character Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel. Chenoweth is connected to star and produce by her manufacturing banner Diva Worldwide Leisure. The venture will reteam her with Depraved composer Stephen Schwartz, who’s on board to put in writing the music.
