Originally published on 8/20/25

At 57 years old, Kristin Chenoweth isn’t slowing down one bit. Between her brand new Broadway show The Queen of Versailles and her appearance in the hit 2024 musical movie Wicked, she truly is at the peak of her acting and singing career. And now, the original Glinda the Good is opening up exclusively to Woman’s World about how she does it with the help of things like Adobe Acrobat. Read on for more. 

Kristin Chenoweth opens up about being in her 50s

For a lot of people being 50+ can be a terrifying thing, but not for Chenoweth. In fact, she claims that she’ s loving both her age and her body more than she ever has in the past, because she’s willing to accept and acknowledge where she’s at in life. 

“Embrace your age,” she says with a smile. “We’re all gonna die trying to look the best that we can. And look, I’m the first one to stand in line to buy something that’s gonna help me look younger, but we have to embrace our age. Who wants to go back to the 20s, 30s and 40s? Not me. And it’s been hard for me sometimes because I’m, like, my body feels tired, but my mind is young. I can still sing well, but I’m just tired. And you just kind of have to go, ‘You’re 57, so yeah.’” 

She also recommends that people who are working a lot “find time to get your rest and drink lots of water, because we want long lives. We probably weren’t meant to live as long as we are anyway. But if you want to stay on this planet, think of ways to make your life happier, healthier and enjoy it, because at this point we should be enjoying it.” 

Kristin Chenoweth shares some behind-the-scenes ‘Wicked’ secrets 

No matter what else she may do in her career, Chenoweth has and always will be known for bringing the role of Glinda the Good Witch to life in Broadway’s hit musical Wicked, which recently turned 22. 

“For me, I just hoped to be in a chorus on Broadway, but I never would get the chorus parts because I’m petite and I’m very unique and original. My younger self thought that wasn’t going to work for me, but in fact, the things that make me different have worked for me. I won a Tony Award for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but the musical closed the next day. So my prayer was that I would be in something that people will have heard of,” she said. 

“And when Wicked came along, I sat through the first workshop and then I called my mom and dad and I said, ‘I got this show, and I think this is the one. This it’s gonna be like my Phantom of the Opera.’ And my mom said, ‘Well, what is it?’ I said “It’s called Wicked,’ and we’re from the South so she asked, ‘Is that satanic?’ I said ‘No.’ And now the show just lives on in such a beautiful way and I love that people that can’t come to Broadway and see the show, can now see the movie.” 

Speaking of the movie, Chenoweth herself was in it alongside her Broadway costar Idina Menzel, and while they might not have played Glinda and Elphaba, she says just being there was enough. 

“I was with Idina, and we were, like, ‘Is this for real?’’’ she joked. “Watching Ariana [Grande] and Cynthia [Erivo] do Glinda and Elphaba was very special and we just grabbed each other’s hands and giggled.” 

Despite being in the first film, Chenoweth did share that she hasn’t seen the sequel Wicked: For Good, yet. 

“Ari’s [Ariana] been telling me a little bit about it and John Chu [the director] has invited us to see it, but it just hasn’t worked out,” the actress said. “But I can’t wait to sit there and see, because there’s things that they can do in a film that we can’t do on stage. They can go further into the story. They can wrap things up a little bit more clearly. And that’s the part I can’t wait for, because there were things that I longed for in the show that I couldn’t get, because the show is two and a half hours long. So I’m excited for that and I’m excited to see Cynthia and Ariana sing the song ‘For Good,’ because I think it’s just such a beautiful piece. And I can’t wait to see their version.” 

Kristin Chenoweth reveals what’s next for her  

The rest of 2025 is going to be a big year for Chenoweth, because she’s reunited with Wicked’s composer Stephen Schwartz to launch a brand new Broadway musical entitled The Queen of Versailles in which she will play a woman named Jackie Siegel. 

“I want people to know that it’s not Wicked, it’s very different and the score is not gonna sound like Wicked. It’s very different because it’s a theatricalized version of the documentary that came out in 2012,” she shared. “Act One is very much a theatricalized version of what you see in the documentary. And Act Two is not from the documentary. It’s real life.” 

“It just seemed like the natural next step. I’ve learned a lot from creating her and playing her and finding my version of her. When Steven and Michael Arden, our director, called me during COVID, I thought, ‘Are we sure we want to do a show about a white, entitled billionaire family? I mean, is that what we want to do?’ But when they showed me their concept of it and I heard the music, I saw that the piece actually has something to say. It shines a light on them, but it really makes you kind of look at yourself,” she continued. “I love the piece and I’m just excited that we open in November at the St James on Broadway.” 

Also happening this year is Chenoweth’s campaign to launch Adobe Acrobat Studio, in which she helped create a brand-new jingle. Acrobat Studio is crucial for Chenoweth’s busy rehearsal schedule as it allows her to access scripts, schedules and show notes all in one place, whether she’s backstage, on the go or at home.

“Well, I’m the worst at Tech. Like, imagine the worst in the dictionary and that’s my picture. When they asked me to come on board, I was, like, ‘Why? Because I’m just not good at this,’” she said. “But Acrobat Studio’s the one-stop shop I’ve been looking for. I can click it and everything’s just right there. It’s all there for me. And so for me it was just the right thing.” 

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