Kristin Chenoweth to Perform National Anthem at NBA Finals Game 7


At 4-foot-11, Kristin Chenoweth is still making it to the NBA Finals.

The award-winning actress, singer, Oklahoma native, Oklahoma Hall of Fame inductee and unabashed Oklahoma City Thunder fan is performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Game 7 of the title series between the Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night (June 22), the NBA announced.

Chenoweth’s performance will air live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET, shortly before tipoff of the season’s final game.

She teased the appearance on social media Saturday, revealing — while wearing Thunder gear — that she was in Oklahoma City, then said she better “start warming up” and sang the first few notes of the national anthem.

Chenoweth’s Thunder fandom has been no secret since the franchise’s early years, though she also has professed at times to liking the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks as well. That said, the Thunder are clearly her top choice — so much so that she once told Tulsa World she spent three hours bedazzling a Thunder hat. She went to Oklahoma City University after growing up in Broken Arrow, about 115 miles northeast of where the Thunder play.

And her dog’s name is Thunder. She even dressed the pup up once in a Thunder outfit.

Chenoweth has been the anthem singer at multiple Thunder games in the past, sometimes alone and at least once with children from her Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp. That camp is part of the arts and education fund that she founded to cultivate “young artistic expression by enriching children’s lives through the power of education, entertainment and experience.”

Chenoweth won a Tony Award in 1999 for best leading actress in a musical for her role in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She also earned two other Tony nominations for best leading actress in a musical — one in 2004 for playing Glinda in Wicked and the other in 2015 for playing 1930s Hollywood diva Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century.

And in 2009, she won an Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her work on ABC’s Pushing Daisies.





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