Kristin Chenoweth: No Rest For The Wicked

Ask Me Another

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Emmy and Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth joins Ask Me Another in Houston, Texas. She reflects on her Wicked-ly impressive career on stage and her latest album, For The Girls. Then, the Broadway star belts it out in a game where she sings the titles of famous musicals, and takes on a quiz inspired by her love of 7-Eleven Slurpees. Plus, a final round with a "BIG" surprise ending.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Cullen performance hall at the University of Houston, Texas,
0:10.0	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Ask Me Another.
0:15.0	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, O'Fear, Eisenberg.
0:20.0	Hey everybody!
0:24.0	Wow, wow, wow, this is exciting for us to be here.
0:31.0	We have an amazing show for you people.
0:33.0	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:35.0	They are backstage.
0:36.0	They're going to be up here very soon playing some nerdy games with us.
0:40.0	And one of them is going to be our big winner, becoming the second most famous person
0:45.0	from Houston after Beyonce.
0:48.0	I truly believe.
0:50.0	And I'm really excited about this.
0:53.0	Our special guest from Broadway, from television, Kristen Chenoweth.
1:04.0	Kristen Chenoweth has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is, yeah,
1:11.0	the only place in Hollywood where it's still okay to walk all over a woman.
1:16.0	Progress!
1:18.0	Small but mighty.
1:21.0	Kristen Chenoweth originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in the musical Wicked.
1:28.0	Wicked is the backstories of the Witches from the Wizard of Oz.
1:32.0	There's a good witch in a bad witch.
1:34.0	You know what, I never really liked how there was a good witch in a bad witch.
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