Oct. 23--The Broadway star and recent Tony Awards co-host Kristin Chenoweth brings her concert show to the Chicago Theatre on Saturday night.
"I do a lot of different material now," she said in a phone interview the other day, snatched as she was headed to the airport. "There's some stuff from my last album. There's music from movies. 'The Man That Got Away.' Country music. Some Dolly Parton. And there will be some special guests from Chicago joining me for the last couple of songs." "And, of course, people will get what they came to hear." That likely includes material from "Wicked," the mega-hit musical of which Chenoweth was an original star. Chenoweth's latest concert show features the star with what she describes as a "mini-orchestra." Her current tour comes after her much-acclaimed and genuinely hilarious Broadway turn last season in "On the Twentieth Century." Chenoweth was nominated for a Tony but lost out to Kelli O'Hara ("The King and I"). But moving on. Saturday night will be an intimate affair for a songstress and her Chicago fans? "Nothing I ever do is small," Chenoweth said, dryly. "But, yes, you can call it an intimate affair. And Chicago always has been one of my favorite stops along my journey." 8 p.m. Saturday at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St.; $38.50 to $128.50 at 800-745-3000 and ticketmaster.com
