“I’m simply so grateful to have one thing new to play with at this level in my profession,” Chenoweth says whereas making use of bubblegum pink blush. “I imply, it’s not prefer it’s simply me standing onstage with a chair and a carpet—it is a brand-freaking-new, large ol’ honkin’ American musical!”
Forward of the present’s Broadway bow in 2025, Chenoweth caught up with Vogue about growing The Queen of Versailles with Schwartz, doing 18 costume modifications each evening in Boston, and assembly the real-life Jackie.
Vogue: Take me again to when Stephen first approached you about this undertaking.
Kristin Chenoweth: Our great author Lindsey got here to Stephen first, as a result of she’s from Florida and had met Jackie at a seaside membership. Her first impression was, This girl is sort of a Gypsy Rose, there must be a musical about her. So she went to Stephen, who went to our producer Invoice Damaschke, who went to our director, Michael Arden, and so they all known as me at the start of COVID with this concept. Michael actually needed to discuss me by way of his imaginative and prescient as a result of I used to be instantly like, how is that gonna work?
Have been you already aware of the documentary?
I beloved the documentary, however I wasn’t positive it will work as a musical. I instructed Stephen, “ what, I’ll do a studying or two and see if it involves me.” We began tinkering with a part of act one three or 4 years in the past—across the time COVID vaccines began rolling out. I confirmed as much as that rehearsal and virtually instantly began to fall in love with Jackie. It felt a lot prefer it did with Depraved, as a result of Glinda was very a lot a supporting character in that present. It was actually Elphaba, Fiyero, and Madame Morrible’s present till it organically turned Glinda’s as nicely.
