At 4-foot-11, Kristin Chenoweth remains to be making it to the NBA Finals.
The award-winning actress, singer, Oklahoma native, Oklahoma Corridor of Fame inductee and unabashed Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder fan is performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” earlier than Recreation 7 of the title collection between the Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on Sunday evening (June 22), the NBA introduced.
Chenoweth’s efficiency will air stay on ABC at 8 p.m. ET, shortly earlier than tipoff of the season’s last recreation.
She teased the looks on social media Saturday, revealing — whereas carrying Thunder gear — that she was in Oklahoma Metropolis, then stated she higher “begin warming up” and sang the primary few notes of the nationwide anthem.
Chenoweth’s Thunder fandom has been no secret because the franchise’s early years, although she additionally has professed at instances to liking the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks as effectively. That stated, the Thunder are clearly her best choice — a lot in order that she as soon as informed Tulsa World she spent three hours bedazzling a Thunder hat. She went to Oklahoma Metropolis College after rising up in Damaged Arrow, about 115 miles northeast of the place the Thunder play.
And her canine’s identify is Thunder. She even dressed the pup up as soon as in a Thunder outfit.
Chenoweth has been the anthem singer at a number of Thunder video games previously, typically alone and at the very least as soon as with youngsters from her Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp. That camp is a part of the humanities and training fund that she based to domesticate “younger creative expression by enriching youngsters’s lives by means of the facility of training, leisure and expertise.”
Chenoweth gained a Tony Award in 1999 for greatest main actress in a musical for her function in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She additionally earned two different Tony nominations for greatest main actress in a musical — one in 2004 for enjoying Glinda in Depraved and the opposite in 2015 for enjoying Thirties Hollywood diva Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century.
And in 2009, she gained an Emmy for greatest supporting actress in a comedy collection for her work on ABC’s Pushing Daisies.