{"id":1316041,"date":"2019-10-23T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813638"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T13:00:50","slug":"kristin-chenoweth-is-bringing-for-the-girls-to-broadway-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/kristin-chenoweth-is-bringing-for-the-girls-to-broadway-part-2-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Chenoweth Is Bringing For the Girls to Broadway (Part 2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Carson Stokebrand<\/a><\/span>
\n10\/23\/2019<\/span>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

As Kristin Chenoweth prepares to take the music from her new album, For the Girls<\/em>, to Broadway for a limited concert engagement in November, the award-winning entertainer reflects on the surprising similarities between country music and Broadway songwriting, plus offers insights on some of her most-anticipated projects. <\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: Read part one of our interview with Kristin Chenoweth.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

CMT: Over the years, you\u2019ve stepped into the Nashville scene several times, by doing your own country album and hosting country award shows. How does country music fulfill you in a different way than other types of music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chenoweth: I\u2019ve always felt\u2026and don\u2019t anybody get nervous when I say this, but I\u2019ve always felt that country \u2014 because that\u2019s what I was raised on, that\u2019s what I sang \u2014 went with Broadway very well. I think Trisha Yearwood is a perfect example of it because she\u2019s a storyteller and these songs are stories just like on Broadway. Now we might have jazz hands when we do \u2018em. But a lot of times we don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I say that when musical theater\u2019s done well, it\u2019s because it comes out of this conversation and it flows and we sing it because we can\u2019t speak it anymore. To me, country music does that very thing. Y\u2019all sing it because we can\u2019t speak it. It\u2019s not enough to just speak. That\u2019s why I always felt like the two go together. You know, gosh I just remember Trisha Yearwood\u2019s \u201cThe Song Remembers When\u201d and \u201cOn a Bus to St. Cloud.\u201d These are story songs. They could go in a Broadway show, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

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