The Premiere Idina Menzel Resource
WICKED is celebrating its 20th anniversary today! The show celebrated with two special shows yesterday: a PINK matinee and a GREEN evening performance. The Green show featured an exclusive Idina Menzel Playbill and it’s available to purchase now on Playbill.com! They are also selling the special Wicked 20th Playbill and Kristin Chenoweth’s Pink show Playbill. Happy shopping!
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Wicked is celebrating its 20th Anniversary on October 30! Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth reunited for a new photoshoot and interview with New York Magazine. Their feature is in the October 23 edition of the magazine and is also available to read online on Vulture.com!
There’s something familiar about watching Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth have a conversation — the way that one of them tends to be a bubbling extrovert, the other more introspective but observant and ready with a joke. After a long day in workshops for their respective musical projects, the two of them slip into the familiar language of longtime collaborators, with inside jokes and catch-ups. You may have seen it onstage before, in a musical called Wicked.
Magazine:
Idina has been posting memories on Instagram, and so has Kristin, so make sure you follow them!
Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel went on what must’ve been an exhausting promo tour to promote PROUD MOUSE last week. They appeared on The View, spoke with D23 and visited many many book stores and schools in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Illinois and California! I added some photos to the gallery:
I put together a PROUD MOUSE promo playlist and will add interviews as they pop up.
On a related note, Idina and Cara both signed an open letter condemning book bans and calling for an end to this oppressive attack on artistic freedom:
“It’s on all of us to support all kids against book bans. We must come together and continue to advocate for children of all backgrounds, races, genders and sexual orientations so they know they are loved, valued and that we will stop at nothing to protect their rights.” – Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel
You can support the cause and sign here!
Idina also had some great podcast conversations that I highly recommend listening to: Armchair Expert (really great one!), Childproof (with Cara!), and On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Get ready to let out your inner BEAST, because Idina Menzel’s next single will be released on July 21! Pre-save/pre-add BEAST here.
If you were lucky enough to see Idina perform on her Pride tour, she performed it at each stop! She’s also been posting previews on her TikTok. It’s one of my favorites, so I’m excited to hear the studio version and have it on repeat this summer while we wait for Drama Queen on August 18! It’s also one of Idina’s favorite tracks:
“I love it. It’s kick ass, it’s aggressive. It’s about unleashing the beast inside us all. I just love the grooves, [it’s] got kind of like early ’80s vibe to it. I really enjoy performing it. I love blasting it in my car.”
The large version of the single cover is in the gallery:
Idina Menzel wrapped up her Pride concert “tour” by making her way to London to perform at Pride in London and Heaven nightclub! If you’ve listened to or read any of her interviews over the last few weeks, you already know Heaven was one of the inspirations for her upcoming album! She didn’t attempt to stage dive (lol!) but it looked like she had a blast anyway.
During her Pride in London set, she was joined by Jake Shears, who co-wrote Dramatic with her and Jim Eliot. You can see videos from both events on my Pride Concert Youtube playlist.
Idina also did a ton of press! I added a bunch of videos to the DRAMA QUEEN playlist on Youtube and here are links to her print interviews:
Watermark Magazine // Huffington Post UK // Express UK // Ireland Live // Pink News // Metro UK // Attitude // ABC Australia
I also added photos of her outside Heart Radio Studios in London on Friday to the gallery:
And finally, photos of her at Wimbledon earlier today:
