Kristin Chenoweth Returning to Walt Disney Concert Hall in November

Multi-talented Emmy®- and Tony®-winning actress/singer Kristin Chenoweth returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 8:00 PM, to launch the LA Phil's2015/16 Songbook Series. Chenoweth wowed audiences in 2010/11 with two sold-out performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall to celebrate New Year's Eve. The ever-popular performer will be singing favorites from her best-known shows (Wicked, Glee and On the Twentieth Century), popular standards, and classics from Broadway, Hollywood, and beyond. She made national headlines with her stunning renditions of Hollywood's most beloved songs from classic films when she performed at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and she was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2014.

Kristin Chenoweth effortlessly takes the lead in a career that spans film, television, voiceover and stage. Kristin recently received the coveted star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of live performances on stage or in theatre. 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 originating the 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 uplifting candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, "A Little Bit Wicked," which debuted on the New York TimesHardcover Non Fiction Best Seller List.

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, Outer Critics Circle Award and Broadway.com Audience Choice 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's Carnegie 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.

Chenoweth is a graduate of Oklahoma City University with a Master's degree in Opera Performance. She formed a new charity partnership with the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center (BA PAC) Foundation in her home state of Oklahoma. Kristin is also a passionate supporter of charities which dedicate their time and efforts to helping those in need, such as: the Kristin Chenoweth Art & Education Fund, The Red Cross, Broadway Cares EFA, The Point Foundation, ASTEP, breast cancer awareness, adoption advocacy and organizations supporting animal welfare.

TV: 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, directed by Rob Marshall, Sesame Street, Kristin, Sit Down, Shut Up and Ugly Betty.

FILM: 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, The Pink Panther, Stranger Than Fiction, Space Chimps and Into Temptation.

Theater: The Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree, Promises, Promises, 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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