Kristin Chenoweth To Lead One-Night-Only Broadway Benefit Concert Honoring Late Roundabout Leader Todd Haimes

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Kristin Chenoweth, the Emmy- and Tony-winning Broadway favorite, will lead a one-night-only benefit concert this April to honor the late Roundabout Theatre Company leader Todd Haimes.

Reuniting with her On the Twentieth Century choreographer Warren Carlyle, Chenoweth will take the stage at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on April 15 in Kristin: An Evening With Friends For Todd. Carlyle will both direct and choreograph the event, and Chenoweth will be joined onstage by what the non-profit theater company is calling “a remarkable roster of Roundabout favorites for a once-in-a-lifetime concert” celebrating Haimes.

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The concert, benefiting Roundabout’s various programs and initiatives including Education at Roundabout, will come just shy of one year since Haimes’ death on April 19, 2023. The longtime president and CEO of Roundabout died at 66 of osteosarcoma, an aggressive cancer.

Chenoweth was last on Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in Roundabout’s On The Twentieth Century, and she won a Tony in 1999 for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. She originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked in 2004, won an Emmy in 2009 for Pushing Daisies, and was twice Emmy-nominated for her role on Glee.

Her next major project is the development of a musical based on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles and the life of beauty queen, socialite and TV personality Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel. Chenoweth is attached to star and produce through her production banner Diva Worldwide Entertainment. The project will reteam her with Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz, who is on board to write the music.

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