FeaturesKristin Chenoweth rules Broadway in ‘The Queen of Versailles’Posted on October 16, 2025 It was the summer of 2023, and actors were assembling for the very first table read of “The Queen of Versailles,” a new Broadway musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham. The real-life counterpart of Chenoweth’s character had come to sit in, and the star had jitters. Or, as the Southern-inflected Chenoweth puts it, “I was nervous as a whore in church!”