About Kristin Chenoweth:

Kristin Chenoweth (born July 23, 1968) is an American singer, musical theatre, film and television actress, and author. She is best known on Broadway for her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and for creating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked. Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, she won a 2009 Emmy Award.

The Oklahoma native sang gospel music as a child and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier. Besides You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1999 and Wicked in 2003, Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's The Apple Tree in 2006 and Promises, Promises, opening in 2010, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

On television, besides The West Wing and Pushing Daisies, Chenoweth had her own TV series Kristin in 2001 and has guest starred on many shows, including Sesame Street and Glee. She has played mostly character roles in films such as Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, done voice work in animated films and the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up, hosted several award shows and released several albums of songs, including A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008). She also penned a memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages.

I hate to admit it, but this may have been the weakest episode of the series so far. Of course even a bad episode of Glee is better than the best episode of Two and Half Men, so it's not like this was an hour of pulling teeth. I'm a sucker for Kurt and his dad storylines, but this time I couldn't get into it. (Was Kurt honestly trying to help his dad or was he just using him to get closer to Finn? I still can't tell. ) I'm usually happy whenever Kristin Chenoweth shows up anywhere. But Springsteen? Burt Bacharach? The Wiz? I can't see these tracks burning up the iTunes charts. All in all, the episode "Home" left me a little underwhelmed.

Still, it wasn't totally irredeemable. Let's rehash the best moments together, shall we? (Plus there's some extra Gleek news at the end.)





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