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Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress Kristen Chenoweth tells you how she’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Wicked,” plus her secret tips for holiday decorating. 

Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress Kristen Chenoweth chatted with "be Well" to share how she’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Wicked,” as well as her secret tips for holiday decorating. Click here for the full conversation!

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Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

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Into news. 12 New York for your weather too because we're gonna have a lot of updates coming up over the next couple of days as we are on storm watch, heading towards the weekend, rain is gonna be an issue. Let's check in with storm watch teams. Hoo sei right now to find out how much of an issue it's gonna be. Yeah, Kurt, you know, we're dealing with the rain and we're also dealing with the high wind. So here's the top stories through the weekend. So we're dealing with a nice warm up. That's something that you can enjoy. In the meantime, Friday and Saturday, Gusty storms are to follow on our Sunday and then falling temperatures by Monday. So let's get into the next couple of days high as tomorrow near 48 degrees, 55 on, on Saturday and then 61 on Sunday. But look where those temperatures crash mid to upper forties on our Monday and even cooler by the midweek. But again, we're talking about the rain. That's why we are on storm watch. Again. We're tracking some steady rainfall arriving Sunday afternoon and even taking us into Monday morning. So let's time it out on your future Cast Sunday, it is gonna start off dry. Then we see those temperatures climbing into the upper fifties. Low sixties, some light rain start then a random and, and then it starts to pick up in intensity by the evening hours. So this is around midnight. You're seeing temperatures still near 60 degrees and you're seeing the darker shades of green and yellow, good indicated for some soaking rain And even the high winds will start picking up in intensity through this time frame. But look how quickly those temperatures crash from the sixties to the mid forties by Monday morning. Even though that the rain is pushing out of here, we're still gonna be dealing with some standing water and some gusty winds. So your Monday morning commute will still be impacted Monday afternoon. It is drier temperatures in the mid to upper forties, even cooler by Monday evening. But again, back to those high winds, 40 to 50 MPH really going to be any concern as well as the rain. We're talking about 1 to 2.5 inches of rainfall. It's all good and I don't mean Rainbow.

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Well, the weekend I could smell it already Addison. But so is the storm that's brewing right on the horizon? What are we looking at in terms of those weekend plans? Is it gonna be a washout? Thankfully not Nikita, I think uh weekend plans should go on. No problems whatsoever for Saturday, Sunday. Not so much, right? Not so much. Let me just go ahead and step aside. You can see what I'm talking about because Sunday right here is something to stand out as a day that we have to be maybe staying inside versus going out and about especially for the evening hours, 100% chance right there for seeing rain Saturday though dry, I think even Saturday night as well. First part of Sunday before noon, I think dry as well. Then after that all bets are off for you trying to stay dry and be outside because here is what you can be expecting for Sunday to Monday. A storm system moving on this way, giving us batches of moder to heavy rain at times, gusts could go 30 to 50 plus MPH. So there may be some isolated flood concerns depending upon where you are in the Hudson Valley area. Those usual lowly air, they get a little bit of some rain can sometimes see some flooding. Yeah, you know those spots. So moving towards your Futurecast 930 in the morning on Sunday, since Saturday will be gorgeous. Let's go towards Sunday. We start the day off with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There's a system in question coming on in from the west going towards lunchtime, still looking pretty good. Just have rain showers just on our doorstep afterwards though, towards 2 to 4 o'clock, here comes the rain light to moderate at first, just more scattered showers than anything else. But see these yellow lines, those are called Isobars lines of equal pressure. The more of them we have and we're closely tight to get tacked together, shows us a strong windfield. We're gonna be seeing wind gusts coming out of a south westerly direction around 20 to 30 MPH sustained gusts going higher than that toss in some moderate to heavy downpours and may get some brief gusts of 40 to 50 plus MPH that time frame right there towards three o'clock in the morning or so. Our system starts to pull away from us after Monday morning's commute, but we can still nonetheless deal with some gusts going on in towards o'clock. You see 3040 plus MPH, even maybe some spots close to 50 as you look out there for that rainfall potential. It's gonna be adding on up, maybe about 1 to 2 injuries or so. But we're gonna be seeing on storm system that's all the way on the west coast head over this way over time. But for the time being, it's just cold out there, we have to deal with temperatures running a little bit below average for the rest of the night. Tomorrow starts improving and then we see temperatures in the fifties and rising after that with the rain chances as well.

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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We have some interesting weather developing over the next few days, changing seasons, basically. And by the time we get to Sunday, it's going to be warmer but rainy and windy. So much rain, about 2 to 3 inches could fall that that may lead to some flooding. We may also have some damaging winds. Winds could gust as high as about 50 miles an hour and that's enough to possibly cause some power outages. So make sure all your devices are charged that knock down or destroy some of those holiday decorations. So please secure the objects outside your home if you can before Sunday. And then we want to watch the coast for some title flooding during our high tide cycle coming in Sunday into Monday. Now, tomorrow it's a chilly start to the morning but a better finish. Much warmer by the afternoon, winds are generally, I don't foresee any major issues on the roads due to the weather. Enjoy the day because it's quiet temperatures in the forties. So you still need some nice warm layers, but you really don't need the heavy duty winter coat. You will need the umbrellas and all that rain gear. Waking up Monday morning from that storm coming in late Sunday, temperatures are going to crash after that. Highs back into the forties and lows in the twenties next week.

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be Well: Actress Kristen Chenoweth discusses ‘Wicked’ and holidays

Our first guest is a Broadway legend, best known for playing Glinda, The Good Witch and the Broadway musical Wicked. That's right. And besides being an Emmy and of course, Tony award winning actress and author, she's now teaming up with command brand to share her helpful tips for decorating for the holiday season. We wanna welcome Kristin Tit to the show. Hi, y'all. Hi. I love all the decorations. You are ready for this. I am so ready y'all. I mean, I don't know how you feel but I read this thing the other day that people who decorate early are live longer lives. I like that. We have a long life ahead and a long life for Wicked on Broadway celebrating his 20th anniversary. Did you have any idea when you started out that show that it was gonna have such an impact on culture on Broadway on everything? No, I thought it was gonna be a hit but I didn't know it was gonna be the juggernaut that it is. In fact, when we were celebrating on Broadway the other night, me and Adina went together, we sat by each other and we, and we neither were none of us thought we were gonna be able to make it. But we kind of rescheduled some things and we both came and she said, what if we had not come to this? We would have missed such a blessing to see this show to still touch so many lives. And just so, you know, I had won a Tony for a show that had closed a week later. And so my prayer was God. Please give me a show like my phantom or Myles is. And so my prayer was answered with wicked. And when you look back on that time on those relationships that you made and the experience, you know, how do you remember it? You know, when you're putting on a new show, y'all, it's like there are no rules and it's very creative, but it's very hard because you don't have any guidelines and you gotta figure out what works, what doesn't work. So it's stressful. Um But at the same time, you know, Adina and I, we know what, what we went through together. And I think all these years later, we can, we can pat each other on the backs and go wow, we did our jobs so that other women can now score in these roles as well. So I'm glad I'm glad we went through whatever we went through to get it, to get it to be a and they're not only doing it on Broadway, but also the new movie coming out. What are your thoughts on the new film? First of all, Cynthia Ario is going to Slay as alphabet. I am friendly, very friendly with her. She's going to kill it. I've known Ariana Grande since she was 10 where she came backstage at Wicked and said I wanna be Glenda. Same boy, same boy, same boy. And here she goes, she got the um audition for Glenda and she actually auditioned for both roles. I said either way doesn't matter how it goes, it would just be so cool if you were to play my role because it's a full circle moment for us because we, we've known each other. I've watched her grow up. I'm very proud of her and now my girl is playing the role. So it's a full circle moment and now you're going back to Broadway, tell us about this. So, Steven Shortz who conduct uh composed Wicked. Um Also, uh and I are, are reunited on a piece called the Queen of Versailles. It is based on a documentary film called the Queen of Versailles. It is about the Siegel family, Jackie Siegel and her family. Now, this family is building the largest private home in America. And that's all I'm gonna say. And people can watch the documentary that to see who these people are. But we are very excited. We've just done about our third workshop on it. And the score, the music Steven has done is just off the charts. I'm really excited to get to come back to Broadway and something new. You know, you always, I love revivals but it's nice to, to get to do something new again. Yeah. Well, speaking of something new, congratulation, you recently got married to your husband, Josh Bryant. I mean, tell me about this. Was it a fairy tale wedding for you or? There's a lot of drama behind the scenes. What was it like people? What Shannon? I really, I didn't want drama because you know, I, I'm an actor so there's lots of drama. Um and I didn't really want a, a fancy wedding, but ultimately, we did have one. We didn't think um we got married in a private residence in Dallas and it's there were, I don't think there was a flower left in the city. I'm looking at the pictures right now and it is just stunning and you look so happy I am. And you know what the wedding was us. We had the minister, we wanted, we had the music, we wanted, we had the, our closest people and most of our family was there. It was just what I and you know, my dad always because I was the runaway bride twice. He goes, I'm just so glad I'm still alive to walk in the aisle. I'm glad we did it and I'm glad we did it. And now you, you actually met at your niece's wedding. Yes, weddings I guess he's a musician. He's a guitarist and his band played at her. Uh, they, she heard them play his band at a sorority function at Oklahoma University and told her dad, my brother, I want that band and that's how we first met. And I was like, dating somebody else. And so was he, but we, we, we became friends and then a year later my nephew got married and he wanted their band too. He didn't want me to sing, he wanted them. Um, we just became friends and then we both weren't dating anybody else and then we started dating and from the first, actually, from that first time I saw him, we saw him again. I was like, there's something special there, but I didn't expect I was gonna be the confirmed Bachelorette for the rest of my life, you know. Yeah, I've heard you say that before another interview. So I was like, there must have been something really special about this guy to get her to hunker down and not run and not run. Yeah, they were like my dad goes now. Just Kristen. Let's practice. All right. So what do you now, what is the holiday going to look like now that you're married? Is it gonna be totally different new traditions? Like, what are you doing? Well, you know what, usually the holidays were both musicians and so those are, you know, those are paydays for us. We usually work on those on those days. But this year we decided to spend time with our families. And so he's from Arkansas. I'm gonna go to Arkansas with him at Thanksgiving and at Christmas, he's coming to Oklahoma with me and we're really glad that our first year is gonna be spent with our family, I think right now, especially with the way of the world. We just wanna be with people that love us and that we love so much and going home is a big part of that. So we're excited to do that this year. Oh Well, I know you're gonna be bringing a lot of cheer, wherever you go to visit with your family. And speaking of cheer, you are the partner in cheer with Command brand and I see all the spots in the background that hung up with command. So talk to us about this partnership. I know y'all. I mean, please. Anybody who went to college has become a fan of Command. I've used fan strips and hooks and everything else, but I'm also a big fan of making things easier during a time when you want to focus on your family and what makes it easier than their products. So they approached me about this cool contest and I love it and I hope everybody does it. It gets you in the spirit soon like right now. So first step is to follow them on Insta follow command on Instagram. The second step, it's so easy tag a merry maker in the comments of the pinned post. And the third step is you waiting to see if you win and the brand will announce winners in about a month and they can win something like $25,000 cash prize, which is amazing at this time and others which I think are really cool. Um Now, what is it, Mary Ma? Yeah, I it's someone like my mom um who brings joy and light, especially around the holidays. I mean, she's the one that usually does all this, right? And she is, you know, she really does celebrate the season. We, we always talk about things we're most grateful for and we ought to, we, I'm, we're Christian people. So we do celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. But you know, we just, we love to be together and she's the the center of that. So if I were doing the contest, I would nominate my mom and in the comments too of the pen post, you can say why you're nominating somebody and, and who knows you might walk away with $25,000 cash. All right. So we're doing this on Instagram, right? Yes. Ok. I am ready to win $25,000. I don't know about you. So hope everybody will get involved and do it. We hope you have a awesome holiday with your family. Thank you so much. Thank you, Elizabeth and Shannon and y'all have safe holidays and take care you as well. Bye bye.

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