Coming Home (Kristin Chenoweth album)

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Coming Home
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 18, 2014
RecordedAugust 22, 2014
Genre Country, pop, vocal pop, disco
Length71:15 (bonus track version)
Label Concord Records
Producer Jay Krugman
Kristin Chenoweth chronology
Some Lessons Learned
(2011)
Coming Home
(2014)
The Art of Elegance
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Coming Home is a 2014 PBS special featuring a concert by Kristin Chenoweth. The concert was later made into a CD and DVD.

Contents

Concert and broadcast

In 2014, PBS asked Chenoweth to do a concert for a special. She chose to do it in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The concert featured songs from her career, as well as songs she has enjoyed since her childhood. Chenoweth performed a duet of "For Good" with Broken Arrow resident Axyl Langford, and the Broken Arrow High School choir providing backup vocals in "Upon this Rock". [1]

Chenoweth stated: "I chose ‘My Coloring Book’ because when I was in college, my voice teacher didn’t think I understood the song, and told me to pull it out one day when I did. So I’m singing it all these years later, and she was there to witness it. I also like to reintroduce songs that people may not be familiar with, like Stephen Foster’s ‘Hard Times,’ which is from 1853 but sounds like it could have been written today. And I love to do songs that people wouldn’t expect from me, like ‘Enough Is Enough.’"[ citation needed ] "I’m known for musical theatre,” she continues, “but I grew up with country and gospel, and I’ve always loved standards and operas. So I figured that this live performance would be a good chance to show people the different things that influenced me and the different things I can do."[ citation needed ]

Beginning on November 28, 2014, the concert was aired on PBS stations nationwide, as Chenoweth's first concert on television. The special was part of the 2014 PBS Arts Fall Festival.[ citation needed ]

CD

On November 17, 2014, a live CD of the concert was released by Concord Records. [2] There are two versions of the album, the regular one, and the Target version with three bonus tracks.

The album consists of the songs:

  1. I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady
  2. Maybe This Time from Cabaret
  3. My Coloring Book by John Kander and Fred Ebb
  4. Bring Him Home from Les Miserables
  5. Fathers and Daughters by Jodi Marr
  6. Hard Times Come Again No More by Stephen Foster
  7. Upon This Rock by Gloria Gaither and Dony McGuire
  8. Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz
  9. Popular from Wicked
  10. For Good from Wicked
  11. Little Sparrow by Dolly Parton from her album Little Sparrow
  12. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from The Phantom of the Opera
  13. All the Things You Are from Very Warm for May
  14. No More Tears (Enough is Enough) (sung with Chelsea Packard) by Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts
  15. I Was Here by Victoria Shaw, Gary Burr and Hillary Scott
Target Bonus Tracks

The album peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard 200. [4] selling 8,000 copies in the first week. The album has sold 47,000 copies in the United States as of August 2016. [5]

Personnel

DVD

The DVD of the concert was released on February 3, 2015. Like the concert, the DVD includes Chenoweth's Father's Day video from 2014. It also shows some behind the scenes footage of the making of the concert, CD, DVD and PBS special.[ citation needed ]

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [6] 48

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