By Andrew Gans

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who has been busy this past season
delivering cheese-infused pies on the acclaimed ABC series "Pushing
Daisies," will perform on the 80th Annual Academy Awards telecast Feb.
24.

Chenoweth, according to a press notice, will duet with Marlon Saunders
on the Oscar-nominated Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz song "That's How You
Know" from the film "Enchanted."

Amy Adams, who stars in "Enchanted," will also perform a song from the
film, Menken and Schwartz's "Happy Working Song." The third
Oscar-nominated "Enchanted" song, "So Close," will be performed by Jon
McLaughlin.

Other performers will include Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (singing
"Falling Slowly" from "Once") and Jamia Simone Nash, who will be joined
by the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem on the song "Raise It Up" from
the film "August Rush."

Presenters for the annual Oscar broadcast were also announced: They will
include Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker as
well as Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Cate Blanchett, Josh Brolin, Steve
Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey,
Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Garner, Tom Hanks,
Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah Hill, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole
Kidman, James McAvoy, Queen Latifah, Seth Rogen, Martin Scorsese, Hilary
Swank, John Travolta, Denzel Washington and Renee Zellweger.

Hosted by Jon Stewart, the telecast will be penned by writers Hal
Kanter, Buz Kohan, Jon Macks and Bruce Vilanch.

The 80th Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Kodak
Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Feb. 24 beginning at 8 PM ET on ABC-TV.

For more information visit www.oscars.org.

 

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