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!
Disney has released a trailer for the upcoming short film, Once Upon A Studio, that celebrates 100 years of Disney! The new short features 543 Disney characters, including Idina Menzel’s Elsa and Kristen Bell’s Anna. You can get a quick peek at them in the trailer above!
An all-star ensemble of beloved characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios come together in “Once Upon a Studio” for a joyful, entertaining and emotional reunion as they assemble for a spectacular group photo to mark Disney’s 100th anniversary. Featuring 543 Disney characters from more than 85 feature-length and short films, “Once Upon a Studio” welcomes heroes and villains, princes and princesses, sidekicks and sorcerers—in all-new hand-drawn and CG animation—to celebrate 10 decades of storytelling, artistry and technological achievements. Directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy and produced by Yvett Merino and Bradford Simonsen
The short film features new recordings from the original voice actors (like Idina), as well as archival footage from others. Once Upon A Studio premieres on ABC during The Wonderful World of Disney: Disney’s 100th Anniversary Celebration! on October 15 at 8/7c.. It will premiere theatrically on November 22 ahead of the new animated Disney film Wish.
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
Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel’s new children’s book, PROUD MOUSE, is out now! The book is a companion piece to their first children’s book, LOUD MOUSE. The duo stopped by Good Morning America yesterday morning to chat about the book, which focuses on Cara’s character, Cara Lee.
Cara Lee is a proud mouse. She is proud of her big sister Dee. She is proud of her specially decorated journal. And now she’s proud to become what she’s always wanted to be: a student. But her first day of school is different than she imagined. Everyone keeps comparing her to Dee. But who is Cara Lee? When you have a big sister with such a LOUD talent, how can you find room to shine in your own way?
Complete with gorgeous illustrations and filled with humor and heart, Proud Mouse is a clever tale about celebrating the things that make you YOU and having the confidence to stand loud and proud.
Autographed copies are for sale on TalkShopLive or you can buy it wherever books are sold! Idina asked fans to please support them and pick up a copy this week. They’ve also got their book tour this week, so you can meet them, get an autographed book, and/or see them read/sing it! Each event is slightly different but you can get tickets (typically the cost of the book) at the link:
September 13 – Little Shop of Stories Decatur, GA
September 15 – Anderson’s Bookshop Naperville, IL
September 16 – Barnes & Noble Frisco, TX
September 17 – Barnes & Noble, The Grove Los Angeles, CA
They presented the book at Strand Book Store in NYC on Sunday and I was lucky enough to be there! I posted the video on my Youtube channel:
