Our first guest is a Broadway legend, best known for playing Glinda,
The Good Witch and the Broadway musical Wicked.
That's right.
And besides being an Emmy and of course, Tony award winning actress and author,
she's now teaming up with command brand to share
her helpful tips for decorating for the holiday season.
We wanna welcome Kristen Tit
to the show.
Hi, y'all. Hi. I love all the decorations.
You are ready for this.
I am so ready y'all. I mean,
I don't know how you feel but
I read this thing the other day that people who decorate early
are
live longer lives.
I like that.
We have a long life ahead and a long
life for Wicked on Broadway celebrating his 20th anniversary.
Did you have any idea when you started out that show
that it was gonna have such an impact on culture on Broadway on everything?
No, I thought it was gonna be a hit
but I didn't know it was gonna be the juggernaut that it is.
In fact, when we were celebrating on Broadway the other night,
me and Adina went together,
we sat by each other and we,
and we neither what none of us thought we were gonna be able to make it.
But we kind of
rescheduled some things and we both came and she said, what if we had not
come to this? We would have missed such a blessing
to see this show to still touch so many lives. And
just so, you know, I had won a Tony for a show that had closed a week later.
And so my prayer was God. Please give me a show like my phantom or my lame is. And
so my prayer was answered with wicked.
And when you look back on that time on
those relationships that you made and the experience,
you know, how do you remember it?
You know, when you're putting on a new show, y'all,
it's like there are no rules and it's very creative, but it's very hard
because you don't have any guidelines and you got to figure out what works,
what doesn't work.
So it's stressful.
Um But at the same time,
you know,
Edina and I,
we know what we went through together and I think
all these years later, we can,
we can pat each other on the backs and go wow,
we did our jobs so that other women can now score in these roles as well.
So I'm glad
I'm glad we went through whatever we went through to get it, to get it to be a
and they're not only doing it on Broadway, but also the new movie coming out.
What are your thoughts on the new film?
First of all, Cynthia
Ario is going to Slay as alphabet. I am friendly with very friendly with her.
She's going to kill it.
I've known Ariana Grande since she was 10.
Um
She came backstage at
Wicket
and said I wanna be Glenda.
Same
boy,
same boy, same
boy.
And
here she is,
she got the um audition for Glenda and she actually auditioned for both roles.
I said either way
doesn't matter how it goes, it would just be so cool if you were to play
my role because it's a full circle moment for us because we, we've known each other.
I've watched her grow up. I'm very proud of her and now my girl is playing the role.
So it's a full circle moment
and now you're going back to Broadway, tell us about this.
So Steven Schwartz who conduct uh composed Wicked.
Um Also, uh and I are, are reunited on a piece called the Queen of Versailles.
It is based on a documentary film called the Queen of Versailles.
It is about the Siegel family, Jackie Siegel and her family.
Now this family is building the largest private home in America.
And that's all I'm gonna say.
People can watch the documentary to, to see who these people are. But
we are very excited. We've just done about our third workshop on it.
And the score, the music Steven has done
is just
off the charts. I'm really excited to get to
come back to Broadway and something new. You know, you always,
I love revivals but it's nice to, to get to do something new again.
Yeah. Well, speaking of something new, con
congratulation,
or you recently got married to your husband, Josh Bryant, I mean, tell me about this.
Was it a fairy tale wedding for you or? There's a lot of drama behind the scenes.
What was it like?
What Shannon? I really,
I didn't want drama because you know, I, I'm an actor so there's lots of drama.
We got married in a private residence in Dallas and it's,
there were, I don't think there was a flower left in the city.
I'm looking at the pictures right now and it is just stunning and you look so happy
I am. And you know what the wedding was us.
We had the minister, we wanted, we had the music we want,
we had the, our closest people and most of our family was there
and it was just what I and you know,
my dad always because I was the runaway bride twice.
He goes, I'm just so glad I'm still alive to walk in the
aisle.
I'm glad we did it, dad. I'm glad we did it.
And now you, you actually met at your niece's wedding.
Yes. Weddings. I guess
he's a musician. He's a guitarist and his band played at her. Uh They,
she heard them play his band at a sorority
function at Oklahoma University and told her dad,
my brother, I want that band and that's how we first met and I was like,
dating somebody else.
And so was he, but we, we, we became friends.
And then a year later, my nephew got married and he wanted their band too.
He didn't want me to sing, he wanted them.
Um,
we just became friends and then we both weren't dating anybody
else and then we started dating and from the first,
actually, from that first time I saw him, we saw him again. I was like,
there's something special there,
but I didn't expect I was gonna be the confirmed Bachelorette for the rest of my life,
you know.
Yeah, I've heard you say that before in another interview.
So I was like,
there must have been something really special about this
guy to get her to hunker down and not run
and not run. Yeah, they were like, my dad goes now, just Kristen. Let's practice.
All right. So what do you,
now, what is the holiday going to look like now that you're married?
Is it gonna be totally different new traditions? Like, what are you doing?
Well, you know what, usually the holidays, we're both musicians and so those are,
you know, those are paydays for us. We usually work on those on those days, but
this year we decided to spend time with our families. And so he's from Arkansas.
I'm gonna go to Arkansas with him at Thanksgiving and at Christmas,
he's coming to Oklahoma with me
and we're really glad that our first year is gonna be spent with our family,
I think right now, especially with the way of the world.
We just wanna be with people that love us
and that we love so much and going home is a big part of that.
So we're excited to do that this year.
Oh Well, I know you're gonna be bringing a lot of cheer,
wherever you go to visit with your family.
And speaking of cheer, you are the partner in cheer with command brand.
And I see all the
stock
in the background that hung up with command.
So talk to us about this partnership.
I know y'all.
I mean, please, anybody who's been to college has become a fan of command. I use
fans, Tripp
and Hooks and everything else, but
I'm also a big fan of making things easier during
a time when you wanna focus on your family and
what makes it easier than their products.
So they approached me about this cool contest and
I love it and I hope everybody does it.
It gets you in the spirit
soon like right now. So first step is to follow them on Instagram, follow command
on Instagram. The second step, it's so easy tag, a merry maker in the
comments of the pinned post.
And the third step is you waiting to see if you win
and the brand will announce
winners in about a month and they can win something my $25,000 cash prize,
which is amazing at this time.
And other command products, which I think are really cool.
Um, now, what is a merry maker? You ask,
it's someone like my mom, um, who brings joy
and liked, especially around the holidays.
I mean, she's the one that usually does all this, right?
And
she is,
you know, she really does celebrate the season.
We, we always talk about things we're most grateful for and
we ought to, we, I'm, we're Christian people.
So we do celebrate the true meeting of Christmas. But
you know, we just, we love to be together and she's the the center of that.
So if I were doing the contest,
I would nominate my mom and in the comments too of the pen post,
you can say why you're nominating somebody and,
and who knows you might walk away with $25,000 cash. All right.
So we're doing this on Instagram, right?
Yes. Ok.
I'm ready to win $25,000. I don't know about you.
So hope everybody will get involved and do it.
We hope you have a awesome holiday with your family.
Thank you so much.
Thank you Elizabeth and Shannon and y'all have safe holidays and take care.
You as well. Bye bye.