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Kristin Chenoweth promises a great performance with the Tabernacle Choir — despite Utah’s altitude and bad air

Performing with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square has always been on Kristin Chenoweth's “bucket list.”

But she admits, with sold-out concerts coming on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the Conference Center, she's laboring a bit — with the Utah air.

“I have struggled. I’m not going to lie,” she said Wednesday at a news conference in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Relief Society Building. “I’m like, ‘C’mon, get your breath!’”

Rehearsing on Tuesday night, she found herself having to take breaths in the middle of lines.

It’s not just the smog, which cleared with Wednesday’s snowstorm but is forecast to return by Friday.