Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney is preparing to star in a musical concert in London’s West End this April, and she recently spoke about how it could never have happened without Wicked’s original Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth.
During an appearance on the British show Queerpiphany, Mulvaney spoke about the comfort the Wicked musical soundtrack brought her as a child. “I would listen to the Wicked cast album on repeat, and Kristin was the Glinda on that album,” she said.
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“But at the time Kristin was in a show called Promises Promises on Broadway, and I was writing her fan letters and I asked her to coffee. At this point, I’m probably 12.”
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But Chenoweth actually replied.
“Crazy enough, I get an email that was like, ‘Kristin has never received a better letter in her life, and no, she can’t go to coffee with you, but she’d like to bring you backstage at Promises Promises.’”
“We go see the show, she brings us backstage, she’s like, ‘You’re going to sing with me one day, and you’re going to do this with your life, I already know it.’… She basically was like, ‘Go with God and do musical theatre, and I will see you on the stage.’”
That experience, Mulvaney said, not only stayed with her as she pursued her career, but it also helped her accept herself as trans. “Even when I was struggling with my identity and coming out and navigating my puberty and my adolescence, I always came back to theater,” she said. “Kristin helped make that idea possible.”
“What really inspired me was that she has such a unique, special relationship with a higher power and faith. She loves queer people, but she also loves church, and I grew up very religious. So for me, she kind of was the thing that felt like I was allowed to be both and that maybe a God could love me.”
With the launch of the Wicked film and her surprise cameo, Chenoweth has been back in the spotlight as of late. In December, she shot back at the conservative Christian group One Million Moms (OMM) for encouraging people to boycott the new film due to its “LGBTQ agenda.”
“Everyone knows the ‘one million Moms’ are a mere few hundred. Maybe,” Chenoweth wrote in an Instagram comment on an article covering the boycott, along with an eye roll emoji.
“It’s called entertainment. Artistry,” she continued. “I am a Christian woman or originated the role of Glinda and all the silliness that these women spew out of hate. No no no. I can’t help it : i try to love em anyways. For they don’t get it. For anyone who wants to see girl power, then go so WICKED. Onstage or in a movie theater.”
Mulvaney will perform in the new musical We Aren’t Kids Anymore at London’s Savoy Theater on April 28, 2025.
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