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Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress Kristen Chenoweth tells you how she’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Wicked,” plus her secret tips for holiday decorating. 

Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress Kristen Chenoweth chatted with "be Well" to share how she’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Wicked,” as well as her secret tips for holiday decorating. Click here for the full conversation!

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It so that it feels like December today, very seasonal with the look and feel those passing flurries and these highs today topping off close to 43 degrees, 44 for a large portion of us, many of us across the state, Newark Edison to New Brunswick down to Patterson Biscay as well, 43 degrees with a mixture of more clouds in play. Now, things are definitely gonna change come this weekend, we are looking for a big strong system and with much more confidence, heavy rain winds gusting upwards to 50 mile per hour range or even higher in some spots and of course, some squall lines also a big concerns here with possible impacts being of course also coastal flooding into Sunday night heading into the overnight. We're still continuing to fine tune these details but really confident on this look here. So squall lines, those are the quick passing sharp front line that we are expecting to notice some heavy rain as well as some gusty winds associated with it, notice a direction here out of the south and southeast. And that's what also makes it particularly concerning for coastal communities and coastal flooding being a big factor as well and potential flurries today, we notice a cold and that will continue to linger on also for tomorrow morning. Things clear up nicely as we progress throughout the day today, but don't be fooled that cold air continues to funnel from northern regions and we noticed a little bit of clearing up. Now, the potential for us to notice once again those snowflakes tomorrow morning heading into the afternoon is very likely. So wind swept, flurries. Once again, showers also staying a bit more to the south. As to be expected, Friday clears out nicely and we slowly start to regain the warmth. But then that cold front really comes through into the later half of the weekend. Here's a look at our exclusive 10 day forecast.

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And plus scan the QR code right there for more episodes, videos and photos. All right, we're getting another check of the weather with storm watch team. Meteorologist Alan Nos and Alan today is cold. It's going to warm up. But then also we're going to have a storm. When is all this happening, right. So the warm up is going to happen starting Friday, Friday and Saturday will start warming up. And then Sunday, all that warm air, it's going to be a clash between the warmth and the December cold, heavy rain is looking likely that's I think one of our biggest impacts when it comes to Sunday again. Keep in mind today, it's still Wednesday. We have several days to track the storm. But what we know so far is that there could be a possibility of flooding conditions. This is going to be for a later Sunday evening into Sunday night. On top of that, imagine it's not just rain, it's a windswept rain, wind swept thunderstorms. In fact, wind gusts could easily be over 40 MPH, especially if you're east of night five east of the Hutch where you're closer to the water along country club throgs neck locust point. These areas could see wind gusts over 50 MPH. Of course, the exact details, we're going to be fine tuning over the next couple of days including the big temperature drop that follows the storm on Monday. So you're going to have to just stay tuned with us over the next couple of days. Hope will also have an update in the evening. So you definitely want to stay tuned for that again. This pattern, it's ripe for producing a big time storm Sunday. Out ahead of the storm again, we're going to get that warm flow from Florida, bringing up sub temperatures that are going to be near 60 degrees on Saturday. But as the storm approaches Sunday, it's going to pick up not just the warmth but the moisture, a tropical connection, in fact, and what that's going to do is produce the threat of some heavy rain, especially Sunday evening and Sunday night. In the meantime, though, it's just cold, it's December cold. In fact, out the door tomorrow morning, you're definitely going to want that coffee in hand warming you up or of course, those mittens we're going to see 28 for North Bay Chester, 29 Mott Haven, 30 for City Island and a little bit better of a chance for a couple of these festive flakes. Our latest feature cast, in fact, actually showing a whole snow shower might be falling at a decent clip at around lunchtime. This is at 1230. So 37 Park Chester don't expect it to stick, but it'll look a little bit like a snow globe for just a few minutes there, Thursday afternoon and then it's just going to stay cold as we usher in Hanukkah tomorrow night, around 35 degrees when the sun goes down. And then of course, the warm up begins Friday, Saturday near 60 Sunday, hey, could make a run at 70. But with those thunderstorms, it's not a day that you want to be outside. It's a roller coaster. At least for the start of Hanukkah. We have good weather. So that's something to look forward to. But, wow, Sunday. Yeah, you'll be watching second half. All right, Alan, thank you. Well, Janice.

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Putting us all in the holiday season. That is a great event. Check it out if you can. You know, I learned something about your real Christmas trees this weekend too and I went out so they're all so different because one is stronger, like they have stronger branches, they're meant to hold your hardier ornaments. The other ones are more fragrant. So you have to really think about what do you want. There are a lot of variables just like the weather, just like the weather. There are a lot of invariable is when you go out and pick your Christmas trees, everybody. So, yeah, think long and hard about just not too, too long because you, your time is running out really as we go throughout the next couple of days, I want to just draw your attention to our most significant weather event that we're watching. And this could be for Sunday evening and Sunday night, this latest snapshot and don't take a verbatim just yet. This, the timing on this will change over the next few days. But around nine o'clock, Sunday, even some moderate to heavy rain, potentially temperatures well into the fifties and there can be some gusty winds with this. So I would start getting in the mindset of planning ahead for a wet second half of Sunday into Sunday night outside. Today. It's chilly and there are some passing snow flurries around, nothing too significant at all. But you can notice a few of those festive flakes as we go throughout the afternoon today and through about four or five o'clock. Otherwise just stress warmly daytime highs today, barely touching 40 degrees, mostly cloudy skies. Other than a few of those scattered flurries ahead of a colder night tonight with lows in the twenties into Thursday morning. So you might need the extra layer tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is a carbon copy of today. A few flurries near 40 warming up Friday and into the weekend. Saturday still the pick of the week before we get to that late rain and gusty conditions. Sunday evening and Sunday night before dry weather pushes in for next week.

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman through hyperlocal weather forecast. The rest of today. A little breaks of sunshine. We have a couple of spotty rain or snow showers moving on through. We've had a few flakes flying out over the east end. Now, through the rest of today, still that chance of a rain or snow shower. Now, in Huntington through this evening it's cold. We top out to a high of 41. By the time we're coming home from work around five o'clock, 39 degrees, we're in the thirties, skies will clear overnight and tomorrow morning, cold temperatures around 25 to 30 degrees. So out the door today this afternoon, 41 degrees, it's cold that rain and snow shower, wind chills have been in the twenties and thirties. So if you're outside the gloves, the hat, the warm boots and also the scarf and keep yourself warm. The rest of today, take a look. Now, tomorrow. So it's cold today. Tomorrow, the chance of a rain or snow shower in the afternoon hours of Thursday, a high of only 40 to start off hot for Thursday night, slight chance of a rain or snow shower early and then overnight hours of Thursday into Friday, skies will start to clear and weather will be improving on your Friday. How about a temperature near 50 degrees? So, changes coming our way towards the weekend, Saturdays dry Sunday. We're watching the storm. It will have strong winds and the timing of the rain looks to be during the afternoon and evening hours of Sunday. If it gets delayed a little bit more, it's more towards Sunday night. So the threat of some brief heavy rain, Sunday night into early Monday morning and some strong winds, we could have winds on Sunday night, 40 to 50 MPH. Recapping today. Temperatures, low forties that rain in passing snow shower tonight, turning colder lows 25 to 30. It's a cold start to your Thursday morning. Saturday looks good at 54. Then that rain and wind Sunday night into Monday morning.

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Trip to Ridgefield this afternoon, snow flurry squalls passing through. I don't know John. I guess we're cold enough out there and we're at that time of year. Yeah, we are Becky. And again, we were looking at some flurries earlier on this morning. Shout out to our producer, Jeremy, you sent this in like one minute before the show earlier this afternoon. But again, we really are seeing that, that colder air, even some dry air back out across the north and northwest. A few lake effect showers back out across western New York. We're really seeing that driving into our neck of the woods. No accumulation. But I know for some really is nice to see as we are just 15 days out from the official start of winter, but it's already feeling like it. 41 is a forecasted high for today. A lot of us not even making it out of the thirties that puts us several degrees cooler than what we should be. 47 is what the National weather service recognizes as average. Here's a look at this afternoon again, mostly cloudy skies. We're gonna try to find a poke of some sunshine for some spots out toward west end in Bridgeport, but still you're gonna need to bundle up. It's, that chill is just gonna continue to linger around. Not really seeing much sun to help warm things up a chance for a few more flakes as we head into later parts of your afternoon. Clear for tonight. It's gonna be a cold one as temperatures dropping off down into the twenties for lows and we're waking up to that into your tomorrow morning with yes another gray start and a chance for some more flurries and a little bit of some light snow shower activity as we push forward. Getting into your tomorrow afternoon, it's gonna be chilly throughout your tomorrow. It's gonna be the coldest day on tap. Like numbers are really only gonna be in the twenties throughout the day. In fact, here's a look at your tomorrow afternoon when we try to make it into the thirties, we're still only feeling like the upper twenties and for some spots, it's gonna feel like the teens for the tomorrow morning. So again, if you're someone waiting for the bus or some type type of public transportation, you do need to bundle up when I return, we're really gonna focus in and get a timeline of what we're looking at for your Sunday because while it does uh warm up nicely with those temperatures close to 60 we do have some rain up ahead.

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be Well: Actress Kristen Chenoweth discusses ‘Wicked’ and holidays

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 Kristin 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 were 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 Myles 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 gotta figure out what works, what doesn't work. So it's stressful. Um But at the same time, you know, Adina and I, we know what, 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, very friendly with her. She's going to kill it. I've known Ariana Grande since she was 10 where she came backstage at Wicked and said I wanna be Glenda. Same boy, same boy, same boy. And here she goes, 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 Shortz 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. And people can watch the documentary that 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, congratulation, 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 people? What Shannon? I really, I didn't want drama because you know, I, I'm an actor so there's lots of drama. Um and I didn't really want a, a fancy wedding, but ultimately, we did have one. We didn't think um 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 wanted, we had the, our closest people and most of our family was there. 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 and 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 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 were 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 spots in the background that hung up with command. So talk to us about this partnership. I know y'all. I mean, please. Anybody who went to college has become a fan of Command. I've used fan strips and hooks and everything else, but I'm also a big fan of making things easier during a time when you want to 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 Insta 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 like $25,000 cash prize, which is amazing at this time and others which I think are really cool. Um Now, what is it, Mary Ma? Yeah, I it's someone like my mom um who brings joy and light, 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 meaning 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 am 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.

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