VIDEO: Kristin Chenoweth Invites Chicago Songwriter Onstage for WICKED Performance

By: Oct. 28, 2015
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This past Saturday, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth invited Chicago songwriter/AEA actress Jess Godwin onstage during her concert at the Chicago Theatre to sing a stunning rendition of "For Good" from the musical WICKED. Godwin also spoke of her recent Chicago-based service projects and her upcoming show in December at the Athenaeum Theatre. Watch the performance of 'For Good' below!

Check out Jess's newest release, "Say Love" music video here and

Chenoweth recently made her return to Broadway, playing the glamorous film star Lily Garland in the Roundabout Theatre Company's "On the Twentieth Century." Her performance earned her the Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award. She also earned nominations for a Tony Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical" and a Drama League Award. Chenoweth co-hosted the Tony Awards in June with Alan Cumming.

Chenoweth has performed to sold-out audiences across the world, including performances last year at New York'sCarnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. Last fall she released a CD and DVD of her own live concert performance, "Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home," where she performed a career-spanning concert in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The concert was also televised as a special on PBS.

Her TV credits include Disney's The Descendants, The West Wing, The Good Wife, G.C.B., Glee, The Lifetime Original Movie The Twelve Men of Christmas, Meredith Willson's The Music Man, Rob Marshall's Annie, and Ugly Betty. On film she has appeared in The Boy Next Door, Opposite Sex, Hard Sell, Rio 2, Family Weekend, Hit and Run, You Again, Deck the Halls, RV, Bewitched, Running with Scissors.

Theater credits include The Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree, Promises, Promises, Wicked, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Music in the Air, Stairway to Paradise, Epic Proportions and Steel Pier, for which she won a Theatre World award, The Roundabout Theatre's Moliere's Scapin and Nora Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Also, commemorating the centennial anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, Chenoweth concluded New York City Center's 2007 season with beloved Broadway numbers from the early 20th century.



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