Whether she’s turning heads under stage lights or neon lights, new Nashville resident Kristin Chenoweth knows about popular (see: countless TikTok videos from around the world set to her trending Wicked song). Fans know her from a host of movies and television shows; as a New York Times-bestselling author; and as the Great White Way’s original Glinda the Good Witch, but these days you just might see Emmy and Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth making her mark on a different Broadway.
Splitting her time between New York City and Nashville, the decision to put down southern roots was a move long overdue for Chenoweth and her guitarist fiancé Josh Bryant. But long before she met her musician beau, Chenoweth began her Nashville love story back in 1988 when the Oklahoma native got her first taste of the town working as a singer and dancer in Opryland’s “Way Out West” show the summer after her first year of college.
“I didn’t want to leave. I had just completed my freshman year at Oklahoma City University and my father said, ‘You’ve got to go
