Speaker 1: Welcome, my friend. Welcome to another episode of Love Someone
Speaker 1: with Delilah, my podcast that I am so so proud of.
Speaker 1: This podcast is dedicated to sharing stories, to sharing conversations
Speaker 1: with people who are doing their part to.
Speaker 2: Impact our world for the better.
Speaker 1: And don't we need that now more than ever to
Speaker 1: impact the world for good.
Speaker 2: There is a.
Speaker 1: Lot to love about my guest today. She's a great singer.
Speaker 1: She's a dancer, an actress, a beauty queen. Speaking of beauty,
Speaker 1: she is beautiful inside and out.
Speaker 2: Her soul is beautiful.
Speaker 1: She's been in a multitude of plays, including some of
Speaker 1: my favorites. She's been in Phantom of the Opera. She's
Speaker 1: been in The King and I and my all time favorite.
Speaker 1: I know her best for the role she made famous
Speaker 1: in the play Wicked. She played gu Linda with a GA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about actress singer Kristin chiniwith Kristin is an
Speaker 1: operatically trained singer. She has one of the broadest ranges
Speaker 1: of any recording artist today. She's produced several albums, singing
Speaker 1: everything from opera to country to gospel. She's able to
Speaker 1: hit a note the F six, also known as the
Speaker 1: F above high se I have like a three note range,
Speaker 1: So the fact that she's able to hit a note
Speaker 1: that there's not even like an actual key for because.
Speaker 2: It's above high.
Speaker 1: See as you'll see in a moment, her speaking voice
Speaker 1: is adorable, brings a richness to the character she plays
Speaker 1: on stage as well as on TV and in movies.
Speaker 1: We actually appeared in a movie together last year's Christmas Sensation,
Speaker 1: the animated movie the star Kristen was Gabby the Mouse.
Speaker 1: She has a new album mount that is dedicated to
Speaker 1: all the female singers that have inspired her both past
Speaker 1: and present. But before we start this conversation with the
Speaker 1: adorable Kristin Chenwick, I want to take a moment to
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Speaker 1: episode of Love, someone is the lovely, beautiful and oh
Speaker 1: so talented Kristin Chinowick.
Speaker 3: Hi, honey, how are you?
Speaker 2: Is this really you, Kristen?
Speaker 1: I am so honored and so thrilled to be talking
Speaker 1: to somebody that is in my life, in my heart,
Speaker 1: such a legend.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to be talking to you too, because
Speaker 3: you're quite the inspiration man. Just pretty cool to be
Speaker 3: talking to you as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank Youesome.
Speaker 3: I mean it.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't hear your voice without like wanting
Speaker 1: to say something like, you know, a line from Wicked.
Speaker 3: If that's all right. I'm glad that my voice is
Speaker 3: distinctive and makes people remember certain parts and stuff. I
Speaker 3: think that's cool.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many times I came to see
Speaker 2: you in Wicked?
Speaker 3: No tell me, I.
Speaker 1: Think I saw you in it three times. I've seen
Speaker 1: it three or four more times since, but you I
Speaker 1: think you were you were in it the first three
Speaker 1: times I saw.
Speaker 3: Oh, Mike, I'm so glad. Did you love it? Do
Speaker 3: you think I will tell you something? A little Bertie
Speaker 3: told me that you snuck in some really nice fancy
Speaker 3: popcorn to Wicked and got caught away and pretended to
Speaker 3: go to a car that doesn't experience in front of
Speaker 3: the acuter you don't put your porn away, and then
Speaker 3: came back and still sew it in it, brought it
Speaker 3: in again, and then you both started chopping because you
Speaker 3: were hungry. And I just want to say that at
Speaker 3: my show, I welcomed the popcorn. Bring it.
Speaker 2: Oh did they tell you that that?
Speaker 1: In order to get in, I found a really handsome
Speaker 1: man and I went and looped my arm through his
Speaker 1: so I could hide the bag, and his girlfriend or
Speaker 1: his wife that was on the other side did not
Speaker 1: appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Actually, that part of the story was left out. But
Speaker 3: my favorite is that your friend when you said, okay,
Speaker 3: i'll take it out, I'll take it to the car,
Speaker 3: and you both neither one of you brought your car,
Speaker 3: and you went.
Speaker 2: We don't have a car. I'm like, shut up, you
Speaker 2: shutting up.
Speaker 3: Go with me, here, go with me. I think it's
Speaker 3: hilarious that she also when you were eating it in
Speaker 3: the show she couldn't help herself and how to eat
Speaker 3: it too. I think that's funny. I'm sorry, that's one
Speaker 3: of my favorite theater stories.
Speaker 2: I'm going to kill her. I'm so going to kill her.
Speaker 3: Oh. I wasn't going to let you get away with it, baby,
Speaker 3: I was not going to let you get away with it.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have popcorn together. It was the calmely corn.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was so good. When I see you,
Speaker 1: I will bring you some.
Speaker 3: You know what, Bring it to me and give it
Speaker 3: me while I'm a stage. I think that'd be a
Speaker 3: really big hit.
Speaker 2: Don't dare me, Kristen, because I will.
Speaker 3: I dare you, I dare you? Friend along I love it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we'll be there with bells on.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, good, good.
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Speaker 1: this episode of love. Someone is the lovely, beautiful and
Speaker 1: oh so talented Kristin Chinawi. First off, we I have
Speaker 1: to say here the new album is for the girls,
Speaker 1: and we're going to be playing some of the songs
Speaker 1: for the girls, but also for the guys who are
Speaker 1: listening because they could be an honorary girl. All they
Speaker 1: have to do is get in touch with their sappy side.
Speaker 3: That's right, and they love us, so you know, so.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: It works, It works. I want to know how you
Speaker 1: how you chose the particular songs that that you chose
Speaker 1: the way we were. Oh my gosh, that was the
Speaker 1: theme of our high school prom, by the way, was
Speaker 1: it really?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 1: It was our senior high school prom and we decorated
Speaker 1: with evergreens all over the gymnasium.
Speaker 2: Yeah was it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Cool?
Speaker 2: It was super cool.
Speaker 1: Our proms were not like you spend five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to have a limo and a corsage and sit down dinner.
Speaker 1: We'd go get pizza at Pizza Rays and then go
Speaker 1: to the grade school gymnasium and dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Same here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I especially, I especially want you to share the
Speaker 1: story of Desperado because that is my dedication to somebody
Speaker 1: I love dearly.
Speaker 2: So tell me about that when.
Speaker 3: It makes me. It makes me so happy. Well, I
Speaker 3: was a little kid. I remember hearing this beautiful woman's
Speaker 3: voice sing in this song Desperado. I went, I understand that,
Speaker 3: and I just get it because when I heard it
Speaker 3: and Linda sang it, I thought, well, yeah, I feel
Speaker 3: like that sometimes, believe it or not. And this is
Speaker 3: a little known fact about me. I can be kind
Speaker 3: of a loner. And sometimes our friends are like, u
Speaker 3: U up, she's going there, she's going to Mia, She's
Speaker 3: going Mia. It's just I can get like scared commitment
Speaker 3: and I can be alone and I can battle those
Speaker 3: kinds of feelings. And not that I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: such a I'm such a recruit, but I do have
Speaker 3: to be with music, and I do have to be
Speaker 3: the doing the art of it and understanding the voice
Speaker 3: always and understanding the changes of my voice and DEA's
Speaker 3: the deepening that's happening. And I have to I have
Speaker 3: to learn music all the time, and if I don't,
Speaker 3: I'm just not myself. And and some may call that selfish.
Speaker 1: I call that being true to living out your truth.
Speaker 1: You are living out your truth and you're doing it
Speaker 1: beautifully and you get more beautiful every day.
Speaker 3: That is so lovely. Thank you, Julilah. Thank you. You know,
Speaker 3: as women we age and we go oh look at
Speaker 3: that there, sat wrinkle. Oh no, thanks for falling.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Don't you feel that as you grow, as you mature,
Speaker 1: as you learn to accept yourself. I feel, at least
Speaker 1: for myself, I feel more beautiful than I did when
Speaker 1: I was modeling and weighed fifty pounds less in my twenties.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I feel more confident. I feel like I
Speaker 3: care more about what I think of myself than I
Speaker 3: do about what others.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for spending all this time with us
Speaker 1: and for sharing your heart.
Speaker 2: I want to talk.
Speaker 1: About your before we go your charity, because the whole
Speaker 1: reason I do love someone with Delilah this podcast is
Speaker 1: to encourage people, even if they're Broadway stars, even if
Speaker 1: they haven't been in TV shows, even if they weren't
Speaker 1: nominated for Tony's and Grammys and awards, even if they
Speaker 1: haven't had the level of success that you have enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Everybody can change the world for good.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: And I know you have an organization, a foundation.
Speaker 1: That changes the world for good so that other people
Speaker 1: who were gifted with the talents and the passions to
Speaker 1: be in the arts can pursue that. Tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about that and how people can find out more.
Speaker 3: First of alf, thank you for what you do. I
Speaker 3: want to do the same. Ten years ago in my
Speaker 3: hometown of Broken Arrow, they opened a theater. We never
Speaker 3: had anything like a performing arts center, and we have
Speaker 3: the state of the art theater, and they contacted me
Speaker 3: and told me that they were going to name the
Speaker 3: theater the Christian CHANNELI theater, and I always had a
Speaker 3: heart attack because I thought, I'm not old enough to
Speaker 3: have anything that named after me, and they think you are.
Speaker 1: I have people send me pictures of their pet pigs
Speaker 1: named after me, so you know, I would take a theater,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy with the little pet pigs.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely. And then when I finally got over myself,
Speaker 3: I was like, what am I going to do with
Speaker 3: that name on that building something. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: just let it sit there. I'm going to back it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do something. So it started out with
Speaker 3: I gave a yearly masterclass to high school and college
Speaker 3: students that would I would pick five each and I
Speaker 3: would give master classes. And then it evolved into the
Speaker 3: Christian Channel with Broadway boot Camp and many kids all
Speaker 3: over the nation audition and I can only choose fifty.
Speaker 3: But it happens every year. We just had our fifth
Speaker 3: year Broadway boot Camp at the Tony Awards week, we
Speaker 3: watched the Tonys on television with pizza in my theater.
Speaker 3: We bring down the big screen, we watch it, and
Speaker 3: then the next day we start a very intensive singing, acting, dancing,
Speaker 3: improv writing week with these kids, with teachers that I
Speaker 3: bring in that are much more talented than I am,
Speaker 3: a lot of them famous, a lot of them the
Speaker 3: cohorts of mine. And they then at the end of
Speaker 3: the week we put on a show. And what I
Speaker 3: love more than anything is this week out of the
Speaker 3: whole year, because I see these kids bond, I see
Speaker 3: them find each other, I see them grow. I see
Speaker 3: that I have lots of time for them to bond
Speaker 3: as well. We have lots of advance parties. We have
Speaker 3: Karaoke Night, we have dresses your favorite Broadway star Knight.
Speaker 3: And what's happening now is it's growing so big that
Speaker 3: eventually and this is happening center rather than later. I'm
Speaker 3: currently fundraising for it. I would like to have a school.
Speaker 3: We're building a building next to it which will be
Speaker 3: a creative arts center for the kids in the state
Speaker 3: of Oklahoma, which we'll be able to learn arts and crafts, draw,
Speaker 3: graphic design, writing, and it will be obviously geared towards
Speaker 3: kids in my home state that can't afford it, and
Speaker 3: that will also be fed dinner. So that is something
Speaker 3: that is a sidebar to the foundation, the Christian Channel
Speaker 3: with Arts and Education Foundation, which I encourage people to
Speaker 3: look up. You can also look up the Broken Era
Speaker 3: Performing Arts Center. You can look up Christon Child at
Speaker 3: Broadway boot Camp, and you can find all the information
Speaker 3: on my website as well. And if there's anybody out
Speaker 3: there listening that as a child or a relative that
Speaker 3: wants to audition, auditions are in February and they can
Speaker 3: be done in person in Broken Era, Oklahoma, or they
Speaker 3: can be done by video. And I promise, I swear
Speaker 3: that they will leave life. I have had a life
Speaker 3: changing experience.
Speaker 2: Kristin.
Speaker 1: Thank you for spending time with us today. Thank you
Speaker 1: for loving and blessing kids who have a dream to
Speaker 1: pursue the arts. Thank you for all you're doing to
Speaker 1: make that possible. That you are pouring your talent, your time,
Speaker 1: your energy into young people who have that gift, that
Speaker 1: passion for the stage. I wish you the very best
Speaker 1: this holiday season, and I am so blessed, so grateful
Speaker 1: to get to know you