Kristin Chenoweth Dishes on Glee & Her Emmy Win in New Edition of Wicked Memoir

The paperback edition of Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth’s memoir A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages hit bookstores on April 6. Chenoweth, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises alongside Sean Hayes, added a chapter to the new edition of the book in which she reminisces about guest-starring on Glee and her 2009 Emmy win for Pushing Daisies. (The book already covers her childhood in Oklahoma, romances and stints in several Broadway shows including, duh, Wicked.)

“I was showered with love and got to sing one of my favorite bonbons from Cabaret,” she says of her Glee turn as past-her-prime singer April. “Matthew Morrison and I did a power ballad in a bowling alley and I went cowgirl for a big production number with the cast. So. Much. Fun.”

Chenoweth writes that she was shocked to receive a second Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Daisies—the show had been canceled months earlier—and recalls the hilarious gag planned by Amy Poehler in which the nominees donned giant eyewear as their names were called. (Pretending to be a diva, Broadway star Vanessa Williams abstained.) Chenoweth didn’t believe she had any chance of winning. But win she did!

She likened the sensation to “a cross between staring directly into the sun and getting smacked upside the head with a croquet mallet. My heart traded places with my stomach. My mouth dropped open wider than my head.” Chenoweth, who attended the awards ceremony with friend and Broadway alum Erin Dilly (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Into the Woods), even reveals that she accepted her trophy with no underwear on—her stylist advised it would look bad with her dress!

If you missed Kristin’s charming Emmy speech, click here. And you can catch the author of A Little Bit Wicked onstage as Fran Kubelik in Promises, Promises at the Broadway Theatre.