broadcast live tonight from Los Angeles's famed Capitol Studios at 8 Eastern. Broadway legend Kristin Chenoweth will join Wainwright for some of the musical performances, as will one of Wainwright's sisters, musician Martha Wainwright.
In the audience at Capitol Studios will be none other than Renée Zellweger, who won an Oscar for portraying Garland in the 2019 biopic Judy (for which Wainwright sang on the soundtrack).Wainwright says the impetus for his first foray into Garland's work, nearly 15 years ago, came from his disillusionment with the U.S.
after President George W. Bush preemptively invaded Iraq."I was losing some real faith in the United States," Wainwright says.