{"id":22536,"date":"2014-12-02T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22536"},"modified":"2014-12-02T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:00:04","slug":"tuesday-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22536","title":{"rendered":"Godmother Kristin WOWs PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, one of us was fumbling the TV remote like a running back without stickum (now you know who was doing the fumbling) when lo and behold there was Kristin \"Kristin<\/a>Chenoweth, who has made a career of not fumbling much of anything.<\/p>\n

A year and a half ago, we didn’t know much about Kristin Chenoweth<\/a>. Then we were fortunate enough to interview her in New York, after she was introduced as the Godmother for Quantum of the Seas<\/a>, the new Royal Caribbean<\/a> ship that these days is sailing out of Bayonne<\/a>, New Jersey, just across the Hudson from where she lives.<\/p>\n

Fortunate…because she not only made time for us, but was personable and polite and sweet, and all the other things she is on stage, which is not what a couple of country bumpkins expect from a celebrity. But maybe that’s because she’s something of a country bumpkin herself.<\/p>\n

Her birthplace is in Oklahoma, in the Tulsa<\/a> suburb of Broken Arrow, which brings us back to seeing her on TV the other night. She was doing a 90-minute special on PBS<\/a> called, appropriately enough, Coming Home<\/i>. It was from Broken Arrow<\/a>, it was pretty much all her, and it gave the rest of the world — or at least the PBS viewers — a chance to see what Broken Arrow has known for a long time.<\/p>\n

Kristin Chenoweth is very<\/i> talented.<\/p>\n

With her parents and her mentor in the front row, she sang and she joked and played comfortable to an audience she said made her nervous. The most poignant moment, and there were a few of them, was when she sang a song she’d recorded about her father called Fathers and Daughters<\/i>. She said it would make her cry but it didn’t and her Dad had probably heard it often enough that he didn’t have to fight back tears, either.<\/p>\n

Maybe the people at Royal Caribbean knew exactly what they were getting when they allowed her to make Quantum of the Seas “my godchild” and maybe they didn’t. <\/p>\n

But as Godmothers go, what they got came straight out of the Royal Caribbean promo book:<\/p>\n

WOW!<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tInside: $419<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $59<\/strong>
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A few days ago, one of us was fumbling the TV remote like a running back without stickum (now you know who was doing the fumbling) when lo and behold there was Kristin Chenoweth, who has made a career of not fumbling much of anything. A year and a half ago, we didn’t know much… Continue reading Godmother Kristin WOWs PBS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,36,15],"tags":[137,912,72,35,453,1185,126,307,1382,26,27,1186,33],"class_list":["post-22536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-godmothers","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-jewel","tag-pbs","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}