One of the tracks featured a duet with Jason Alexander. Also in 2001, she released her debut solo album Let Yourself Go, which was a collection of standards from the musicals of the 1930s. The next year, with Mandy Patinkin, she was featured on the album titled 'Kidults'. In 2000, she was featured on the album Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino. She was also in the cast recordings of A New Brain (1998) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999) and a studio cast recording of 110 in the Shade (1999). In 1992, Chenoweth participated in a studio recording of The Most Happy Fella.Īmong other early recordings, Chenoweth participated in a studio cast recording of The Most Happy Fella in 1992. While at OCU, Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants, winning the title of Miss OCU and was the second runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991.

She earned a bachelor's degree in musical theatre in 1990 and a master's degree in opera performance in 1992, studying under voice instructor and mentor, Florence Birdwell. After graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High School, where she participated in school plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority. The chorus begins, 'I'm only 4 feet 11, but I'm going to Heaven' (Chenoweth is 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) in height). A performing highlight of her childhood was a solo appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention national conference at the age of 12, where she performed the Evie song 'Four Feet Eleven'. At an early age, she performed gospel songs for local churches. She has stated that she is of one quarter Cherokee ancestry and that she eventually met her biological mother. Chenoweth was adopted when she was five days old by Junie Smith Chenoweth and Jerry Morris Chenoweth, both chemical engineers from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, and named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth.

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