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Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Kristin is so much more than the good witch from Wicked. She has an i infectious wit and honesty that comes through loud and clear. She recently performed in SLC with Mormon Tabernacle Choir and had to defend her Christian beliefs once again in supporting those in the gay community. While there will always be debates about what's right and wrong in society, the message she consistently delivers is to find the common ground and love one another. I share many of her same questions for God. Her elegant writing of caring for her mother during cancer treatments was touching. It's said that there are no coincidences in life and that it's just God remaining anonymous couldn't be more true as she came into a loving family that was designed by the Master himself on the other side of the veil. This woman is smart and I only hope she'll write another bio-book in 20 years because I would like to read more about her joyful life and see what new questions she has for God.


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A Little Bit Wicked Life Love and Faith in Stages Kristin Chenoweth Joni Rodgers 9781416580560 Books Reviews

I decided to read this book because I am a huge fan of Wicked and I thought that it would really give me an insight to what it was really like to be a part of such a successful broadway show. But, this book does so much more than that. Kristin Chenoweth is such a great writer. Her style flows very smoothly and I found it hard to put this book down. She is also very humorous! There so many parts during the book that I actually "laughed out loud"! In this memoir Kristin tells how she started as a small town "Ms. Ohio" and became a world wide marquee name. She begins with her college years. I learned so many new things about Kristin in this section of the book! She was so confused during this time of her life, and she didn't exactly know which career she wanted to pursue. She also tells of her voice teacher at the time who had such a huge impact on her life. One really shocking thing that I learned was that she was seriously considering pursuing and career in the Opera! In fact, she was actually trained in the operatic arts. After her college years, she moves on to tell about her transition to broadway. I particularly liked this section of the memoir because it gave such a raw insight into the life of a struggling actress. I developed a genuine feeling of sympathy for her as she told about how hard it was to go to audition after audition, and to move from place to place. But she also told of the upsides of being an actress. From reading this section I got this sense of family within the broadway community. Even though they are constantly fighting for parts, and places to live, everyone watches out for each other. There was only one chapter in which Kristin describes her time in "Wicked". And by the time that I reached that chapter, I was glad that it was only a single chapter. The whole reason why I read the book was to learn more about "Wicked", but by the time I reached this chapter, I just wanted to know more about "Kristin". I was so interested in learning more about her two best friends, the jobs she was auditioning for, how she was going to pay her rent, her new sitcom (that flopped). That's another great thing about this novel, Kristin takes a life lesson from every experience that she has in her life. After reading this novel, I really have a great understanding of who Kristin Chenoweth really is. I started to read it in an effort to learn more about "Wicked". But by the second chapter, I was wanting to know more about Kristin herself. Kristin's eloquent and humorous writing kept the pages of my book flying, and her wonderful life experiences made reading the book worth while.
The book is a bit disjointed, but tells the author's story as I believe she really thinks. I can only imagine her mind jumping from one topic to the next at the speed of a spotlight. I really enjoyed it, but have one disagreement; as an adoptee, my mother was absolutely the best.
That's a typical Kristin Chenoweth zinger, her comeback for people who comment on her tiny 4'-11" size, and she's got a million of 'em; Kristin is such a natural barrel of laughs and bundle of joy that you'd half expect her to be illegal in a half dozen or so states. The first time I was ever aware of her was when her song "The Girl In 14G," as a guest on Prairie Home Companion, just completely knocked me off the barstool. It's a comedy number, the lament, sung in a little girlie-girl voice, of a girl who thinks she's found the perfect Manhattan apartment, only to discover that her immediate neighbors are a jazz scat singer and an operatic soprano, both of whom regularly use their paper thin-walled apartments for rehearsal purposes. What turns a funny number into a tour de force is the way Kristin does all three voices herself, effortlessly and authentically bouncing back and forth among them as the lyric requires. It's no surprise then to learn, in this fascinating account of her life, that Kristin was originally in training as a particularly gifted operatic soprano before Broadway happened along and sidetracked her into a more conventional pop showbiz career.

With a belly laugh on pretty much every page, it's a book chock so full of showbiz anecdote that you'd have to be pretty much up yourself on the world in which Kristin's career has been immersed to properly appreciate some parts of it, which I'm not, but no matter, it's a very well written fun read from just about any perspective. It traces the life of a tiny Midwestern girl with a big funnybone, an even bigger heart and an even bigger still talent, who manages to realize a few Broadway dreams without losing her downhome Christian faith and family values along the way to stardom. Sound preachy, perhaps, stated just that way? Fear not, it isn't, not for a New York minute; her faith is just one of those aspects of a multi-faceted personality, of who she is, that you'd have to be aware of to understand Kristin properly.

That, and her sense of humor; of her marriage prospects, Kristin asks "what man could resist a singing hoo hoo that can predict the weather?" The allusions are to a youthful voice teacher who coached Kristin to "sing from your vagina," and an early dancing injury to her coccyx that left it permanently weather-sensitive, only one of the surprisingly many hardships Kristin has had to find ways to laugh off as best she may in the course of a complicated life and career. A bit of a wakeup call, surely, for any cynic such as myself who might doubt that so much deep irony, showbiz perversity and downhome faith could live comfortably cheek-by-jowl in the same personality, this book is an almost breathlessly quick, curiously refreshing read, and a show that's likely to leave you applauding, sorry to see the curtain fall, as yet another hopelessly hooked Kristin Chenoweth fan.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Kristin is so much more than the good witch from Wicked. She has an i infectious wit and honesty that comes through loud and clear. She recently performed in SLC with Mormon Tabernacle Choir and had to defend her Christian beliefs once again in supporting those in the gay community. While there will always be debates about what's right and wrong in society, the message she consistently delivers is to find the common ground and love one another. I share many of her same questions for God. Her elegant writing of caring for her mother during cancer treatments was touching. It's said that there are no coincidences in life and that it's just God remaining anonymous couldn't be more true as she came into a loving family that was designed by the Master himself on the other side of the veil. This woman is smart and I only hope she'll write another bio-book in 20 years because I would like to read more about her joyful life and see what new questions she has for God.