This is not the Kristin Chenoweth we think we know — all Glinda bubbles and giggles and good times. This is a different Chenoweth, perhaps closer to the woman that exists offstage, the one that fought her way to the top of the showbiz heap. It’s a steelier Chenoweth, more determined and, yes, maybe a little exhausted. Mounting a new musical will do that to a person — especially when that person is not just its producer but its star and main box-office draw.

And this time, her character is far from a good witch. She’s playing shopaholic one-percenter Jackie Siegal — wife of time-share king David Siegel, played by F. Murray Abraham — in a lavish musical adaptation of the 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles . The music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz, the man behind Wicked .

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