OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — 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 Thunder fan is performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” earlier than Sport 7 of the title collection between the Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on Sunday evening, the NBA introduced.
Chenoweth’s efficiency will air reside on ABC at 8 p.m. Jap, shortly earlier than tipoff of the season’s ultimate sport.
She teased the looks on social media Saturday, revealing — whereas sporting Thunder gear — that she was in Oklahoma Metropolis, then mentioned she higher “start 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 occasions to liking the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks as properly. That mentioned, the Thunder are clearly her best choice — a lot in order that she as soon as informed the 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 title 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 up to now, typically alone and not less than as soon as with kids from her Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp. That camp is a part of the humanities and schooling fund that she based to domesticate “young artistic expression by enriching children’s lives through the power of education, entertainment and experience.”
Chenoweth received 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 taking part in Glinda in “Wicked” and the other in 2015 for playing 1930s Hollywood diva Lily Garland in “On the Twentieth Century.”
And in 2009, she received an Emmy for greatest supporting actress in a comedy collection for her work on ABC’s “Pushing Daisies.”
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