Kristin Chenoweth And "Wicked" Composer Debut "The Queen Of Versailles" Musical In Boston

By Paula Ebben, CBS Boston

July 16, 2024

BOSTON - Boston audiences are in luck: They will be the first to see "The Queen of Versailles," a Broadway-bound musical that reunites one of the composers from "Wicked" and star Kristin Chenoweth.

Tony winners Chenoweth and composer Stephen Schwartz are bringing "The Queen of Versailles" to life at the Emerson Colonial Theater in the Back Bay.

The musical is based on a documentary of the same name. Chenoweth plays Jackie Siegel, the Florida woman who dreamed of building the largest private home in the US. But when the recession hit, construction on the $100 million house in Orlando, modeled after the Palace of Versailles, stopped.

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