On Saturday night I was beyond excited to attend Kristin Chenoweth's "The Evolution of a Soprano" at Carnegie Hall! My friend Liz came with me and we had an amazing evening.
We arrived at the theater just in the knick of time, ran up many many flights of stairs to near the very top, and sat down just before Kristin walked on stage.
From there, it was a night filled with a combination of excellent music and silly antics. My favorite piece Kristin did was actually a cover of Dolly Parton's "Little Sparrow", accompanied by drum and guitar. It was just beautiful.
A few other highlights from the evening:- Kristin talking about some roles "I shouldn't have played", like Tuptim from The King and I. To get into character, she asked her friends to call her "Christy Chen". (One of the Asian American orchestra members behind her was laughing pretty hard during this story.)
- When they were setting up for "Little Sparrow", Kristin inadvertently sat in the guitar player's spot. When she noticed, and moved, her comment was "I was wondering why the spotlight wasn't on me! It was funny for a second but then..."
- There was a rendition of "Popular" that mimicked the way that the song is performed around the globe, with portions in Japanese, German, and "of course" Italian.
- Kristin singing "My New Philosophy" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I knew she had won a Tony for it, but had never actually heard (or seen) it! AND she brought out Andrew Lippa, who wrote the song and with whom she seems very close, to sing it with her! He was a fun performer, too.
- Speaking of guest performers... Kristin also brought out Deborah Voigt, and the two of them were hilarious together. They performed 2 songs. The first one was "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" with a few lyric changes, and they cracked each other up so much that they had to stop singing at one point.
- The encore song was very cool. Nearly all of the lights dimmed out, and Kristin sang without a microphone.
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