
Kristin Chenoweth Sarah Horn - H 2013
- Share this article on Facebook
- Share this article on Twitter
- Share this article on Email
- Show additional share options
- Share this article on Print
- Share this article on Comment
- Share this article on Whatsapp
- Share this article on Linkedin
- Share this article on Reddit
- Share this article on Pinit
- Share this article on Tumblr
1.5 million and counting.
That’s how many people have now watched Sarah Horn, a Southern California-based singing teacher, duet with Kristin Chenoweth at the Broadway star’s Hollywood Bowl engagement Friday night.
Q&A: YouTube Singing Sensation Sarah Horn on Fame, Fans and Those Stubborn Skeptics
That performance — a rendition of Wicked‘s “For Good,” in which the two witches of Oz bid each other farewell — has deservedly gone viral. It was a risky moment of spontaneous dream-making that could easily have tanked, but instead provided the crowd with four minutes of sublime musicality.
“The 10,000-plus people of the Bowl faded away,” Horn, a vocal teacher at California Baptist University in Riverside, writes of the experience on BroadwayWorld.com. “There was no one else there. No noise. No people. I could hear the beautiful music of the orchestra but there was no one onstage, just Kristin and I.”
Horn, who sang Elphaba’s part to Chenoweth’s Glinda, says she has been inundated with praise from well-wishers and work inquiries since the moment she stepped off the stage.
PHOTOS: ‘Glee’ 300th Musical Performance Celebration
Paul Geller, production director of Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall, pulled Horn aside to tell her the song was “better than anything they could have planned.” And Darren Criss, Chenoweth’s co-star on Glee, chanted Horn’s name backstage before posing for a photo with her.
Horn swears the moment was completely unplanned, despite several queries, including one from the Los Angeles Times, asking if she was in fact a plant.
“It was unlike anything I have ever experienced,” Horn says.
Another angle:
Correction: A previous version of this story called the two witches sisters. They in fact meet in school.
Related Stories
THR Newsletters
Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day