Kristin Chenoweth hoping Hairspray Live! project is mishap-free
Singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth is hoping she completes the upcoming Hairspray Live! TV event without suffering an embarrassing accident.
The former Glee regular is taking on the Velma Von Tussle role previously played on the big screen by Michelle Pfeiffer and Debbie Harry in the TV musical, and her big hope is she gets out alive following a series of mishaps on recent theater and television projects.
Kristin was seriously injured when a lighting rig fell on her while she was shooting scenes for The Good Wife in 2012, and last year (15), she was forced to pull out of performances of Broadway show On the Twentieth Century when she fell ill in April and July. The show was also halted when a fire broke out in June.
So, when asked about her hopes for the Hairspray role, Chenoweth simply wants it to be a safe set.
"I'm a klutz and it's a well known fact," she tells WENN. "I'll just be standing there and a light will fall on me.
"So my hope is to get out alive! I just want to not fall or break something. I'm going to be required to dance a little bit, which I haven't done since On The Twentieth Century, which is a year ago now - so I gotta deal with it! This is an opportunity to ease into a fun part of my life. I still want to show people what I could still do, and this is the role to do it."
Chenoweth was hoping to have a man to share her successes with as she embarks on a very busy end to 2016, but it appears her romance with Andrew Pruett, who she introduced as her boyfriend at the 2015 Tony Awards, didn't work out.
"I don't have a boyfriend or a social life right now," she adds. "I know I don't have a lot of down time right now."
But she is planning to celebrate the holidays in style with a trip to Ireland.
"On December 8th, besides maybe going to Ireland to sing on New Year's Eve, that's when I'm going to take several weeks off," the busy star says.
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