In the upcoming Broadway musical Queen of Versailles, Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham share a slow dance. The two play husband and wife. And during the tryout in Boston, many nights during that moment, Abraham would whisper in his co-star’s ear (low enough so the audience couldn’t pick it up), “I adore you.” Exclaims Abraham: “I can’t help it! I have made movies with some pretty astounding women. I played Sophia Loren's husband. I played Meryl Streep's husband in a reading of the play Genius...And I have one word that encapsulates the feeling I had for all those women. It’s the same for this woman.” He puts his arm around Chenoweth. “I adore her. Absolutely adore her.”
Adds Chenoweth, looking at him with a wide smile, “One night he didn’t do it, and I was like, he doesn’t love me anymore!” In fact, when she first imagined which actor should play her husband in Queen of Versailles, Abraham was the first name in her mind. Thinking he would never say yes, she didn’t even say his name out loud...READ MORE