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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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That you're out on the roads. Yes. It's just a little like, you know, quick. Oh, there it is. And a quick chuckle. Right. Um, that's exactly what we're dealing with today. It's like a quick little cold plunge and tomorrow. Really? We're back to more seasonable types. So we have to contend with these colder temperatures just a little while longer. We do get to stop freezing later on today. So eight o'clock, you'll notice temperatures really taking a deep dive, but it doesn't last for too long. Tomorrow, we wake up with fields a little bit more manageable into the twenties. And by Friday and Saturday we're back into swing with the forties and fifties as ultimate high temperatures. Now, what's gonna influence? Of course, a warmth are the winds, the winds will also tack back down heading into the afternoon today and not be as gusty. Now, they will be coming back tomorrow Thursday, but notice a direction here out of the south and southwest that also adds into a little bit more of that warmth and milder feel. Overall, we are tracking some wet weather returning once again, kind of all day, really nuisance rain. We're not looking at significant rain totals for Friday, but of course, you're gonna have to keep your umbrella handy today. It's sunny and still frigid. I know many of us are noticing that layers is really the best way to go and protect ourselves from the cold, cold temperatures into the thirties. Right around five o'clock, the clouds will fall, then they will decrease clearing up for our night sky tonight. Then we'll notice some more clouds just passing on through for Friday. Now, Friday morning, we wake up into the thirties right around lunchtime. We'll notice overcast skies and northern portions getting the showers first. A little bit of a break right between two and four o'clock and then more widespread showers. Belmar to Jackson, expecting a little bit more moderate rainfall clears out nicely by nine o'clock. All in all. We're trending a bit more. We wet, heading into December 9th.

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With storm watch team, neurologist Alex Calamia. Alex. Do you do the Spotify? Unwrapped or you? Apple music replay? I do have a Spotify. I did not realize that we were already at this point in the year. It comes up so quick and I mean, that's why it feels so cold. I know. I know it's true. The weather is reminding us that. Yes, winter time is around the corner. We are chilly all the way through tomorrow morning and we are dry all day. Thursday. So Thursday actually looks pretty decent in the afternoon because temperatures rebound. But the rest of today is cold, cold, cold Friday. We're talking about rain. It's cloudy for the first half of the day and then kind of sprinkles, light showers for the evening time. It's nothing really too significant but it could get you a little wet at times and same for the weekend. It's generally a cloudy weekend. And if you have plans Saturday or Sunday evening, there will be a little bit of rain in the mix too. We're stuck in the thirties though, for the rest of today. There's no novelty snow flakes like we saw yesterday. It's too dry for that today. Temperatures are, you know, pretty similar, but the wind is not as bad today. So that helps. But it does feel like basically 30 degrees all afternoon and it feels like twenties for your Thursday morning. So this is what you're waking up to as far as wind chill goes. I'll show you the temperatures in a second, but the wind chill is what you want to pay attention to tomorrow. Still a bit of a breeze. In the afternoon, we have lots of sunshine. Highs are in the mid, upper forties, but it feels like lower forties. So that's kind of important to keep in mind you'll need the heavy jacket this evening. And tonight, actual temperatures are close to freezing this morning. It was 27 in Central Park and that was the coldest we've been since February 25th. So it's an improvement tomorrow, but not much. And then on Friday, it's going to be similar temperatures, but we've got some rain to talk about. You see, in the morning it's dry on Friday, but in the afternoon we tracking a few showers, lunchtime, very light shower chance. And then the evening commute the second half of the evening commute, especially dinner time or so, we'll see a few passing showers or maybe even a downpour, but it's pretty brief. Saturday morning should be dry. Saturday afternoon, enough cloud cover to bring in a stray shower chance, but we're keeping an eye over a 10 day for now. Sunday, that rain risk is a little bit higher in the afternoon and evening temperatures are back in the forties and fifties.

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Meteorologist Addison Green back now with a look ahead to milder days, my friend. Yeah, we're not talking though, Kevin, like, break out the shorts though, so I gotta keep us still back in the closet. But we'll get the chance for maybe dealing with temperatures running a little bit better, more appropriate for this time of the year because the past few days have been a little bit more winter like than fall. Like after all, we are still in the middle of going through these fall days. Now go through your day on Thursday. It's gonna be getting a little bit better out there. Temperatures moving upward. They'll continue to move upward for your day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But we do have a deal of rain chances also on the rise. But you can certainly see over the next several mornings where we have been feeling that really big chill in the air. Thursday morning, temperatures around mid-twenties feeling about 20 degrees Friday, mid thirties feeling about 30 degrees and then by Saturday, 41 feeling close to that. So yeah, we're moving those numbers in a positive direction through your future cast. We go towards eight o'clock, 30 degrees in Poughkeepsie feels like 23 white way, same thing for you and then towards the 10 o'clock hour watching those numbers kind of still hanging around that same area towards Thursday morning. Though, temperatures around say Yorktown Heights been about 24 degrees go down towards around 29. Not bad. A little bit chilly out there to the Middletown area. Then by Thursday afternoon, temperatures certainly looking to be moving in a positive direction. Lots of locations feeling like the upper thirties. Now for Friday, we're going to be watching a storm system moving towards the northeast and as we bring in milder air, we're also bringing in that rain shower chain. So as we displace that colder air, we're not worried about any wintry mix or snow mixed on in with those rain showers, just rain coming on down and it should be wrapping on up by the time we get in towards early Saturday morning and then we'll get a dry day through that.

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The, uh, forecast and looking nice and we're warming up again. We are warming up. It's been cold. But I'm telling you if you dress warm, it's just kind of nice to get out here, taking some of that fresh air. Some of our local Long Island photographers have been getting great photos. Linda was at Fire Island Lighthouse and you can see the sky nice and clear there. But I'll tell you there is quite a good breeze by the water and it has been feeling cold, but now we're going to get a little bit of a break from the cold and the breeze. So overnight 25 degrees mostly clear that cold, but the wind isn't as bad. So it's not going to have that bite in the morning. 48 tomorrow afternoon. That's about 10 degrees warmer than what we've been seeing and it won't be as windy. It's going to be nice, sunny and seasonable. So, enjoy your day. We've had some big lake effect snow bands north and west of Long Island. Those are winding down because the wind is switching to the southwest. You see the weather is quiet across the northeast into the Ohio River Valley and around the Middle Atlantic State. So good news for us. It's clear tonight in the morning at 6 a.m. we are in the upper twenties to near 30 degrees less wind for the afternoon might be a little bit of a breeze from time to time out of the southwest. Only about 5 to 15 MPH. But at three o'clock, you make it to 45 in Montauk, 47 Glen Cove and 46 in Miller Place. So we do have that warmer feel at night, partly cloudy. And then our weather starts to change on Friday. It will be mild. We are in the fifties as early as 10 o'clock in the morning, but rain is coming in late in the day. So after four o'clock, we watch some showers. This will be a fast moving front. By about midnight, the rain moves out. Saturday is dry late Sunday. We have another batch of showers coming in and some of those showers could linger early next week. So we are back up into the fifties for the weekend. Saturday is the better day early next week. Some showers clearing late and turning a little bit cooler later in the week.

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Weather wise, when will the cold like be out of here completely? Uh Tomorrow afternoon. So it's great. You know, tomorrow morning though, it's, it's gonna feel pretty bad and then tomorrow afternoon, temperatures are gonna quickly recover. So this is, this is fast. This is great news because this cold air is moving rapidly by tomorrow afternoon, 47 Windsor south and west and we have beautiful sunshine and then tomorrow night, it's not as cold. It is going to be feel so much better to stand outside. Looking back on today, the high temperature was 37. 49 is the normal. So more than 10 degrees colder and then tomorrow and the next several days will be closer to average or even a little bit above average tonight though, make sure you dress the part layered up, cover all exposed skin. We still have those wind chills out there. A beautiful clear sky tonight in Norwalk. And then tomorrow morning we start off below freezing, end up well above freezing, which is great news and then the rain comes in. So really, tomorrow's probably the pick of the week where it's milder and it's dry because Friday it won't be. And over the weekend we're going to be watching Sunday and Monday, be sure to stay with us this weekend and we'll keep you updated on that. In the meantime, though, be prepared for temps below freezing tonight. Twenties all around and winds are going to turn south and west, which really helped us out tomorrow so high, it's climate in the forties, maybe even close to 50 in a few spots. So that's a big change. Here's a look at that extended forecast. Rain on Friday. You'll need those umbrellas. Sunday, Monday, possibly Tuesday. This is a very active weather pattern that develops for us. Not a wash, not raining the entire time, but it will be on and off for a few days. At least temperatures are well above normal and no snow for now. And that's a look at your local forecast.

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A lot like the holiday season. Hope this cold weather helping with that. And there's some Christmas trees around the city that are being lit right now. Yeah, we got the tree lighting happening this evening. So here's a look at your forecast. You know, temperatures are going to be cold in the low to mid thirties. We're going to see a few passing clouds out there, but you definitely need to layer up. This is where temperatures are going tomorrow morning. You're definitely going to still need that nice hot cup of coffee or a nice hot cup of tea just to keep you warm temperatures near 32 degrees. Still feeling like the twenties. And then by the afternoon we'll be reaching the upper forties just shy of 50 degrees, but we're going to see the sunshine all day long and the winds won't be as harsh. So that's some good news for our Thursday. Friday does feature some wet weather. Temperatures will be climbing into the low fifties, but you need to pack the umbrella during the day and even into the evening hours, Saturday, we do catch a break during the daytime and then some more wet weather to follow by Saturday night into Sunday. So the weekend won't be a washout. But your best bet to go outside will be on Saturday maybe to bring out some holiday decorations or maybe pick out your tree. But tomorrow morning still very cold. A few passing clouds. Temperatures near 32 look where temperatures are going. Tomorrow afternoon, highs in the upper forties, near 50 degrees in the Bronx sunshine all day long and the winds won't be as harsh. So it is actually gonna feel good to be outside Friday does start off dry, cool cloudy, but temperatures will be in the upper forties. Low fifties, wet weather to follow by the afternoon, lingering into the evening commute. It is going to be wet but just some nuisance showers today, it's not going to be an impactful system. Saturday again catching a break, not seeing a lot of sunshine. Temperatures will be in the low to mid f. So Saturday is actually looking like a good day to be outside. Sunday does start off dry before more wet weather pushes through Sunday night into early next week and temperatures will be chilly once again by Hanukkah. All right, hope. Thanks.

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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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