Playbill is reporting that Idina will join a who’s-who of Broadway greats at the 2009 Dramatists Guild Gala on April 20th in New York. Idina last participated in this event in 2004 while she was still appearing in Wicked. I wonder what she’ll sing this time?

Peters, Mitchell, Mays, Menzel, Lane, Ebersole, Miranda and More Set for Dramatists Guild Gala

A host of top Broadway stars will take part in The Dramatists Guild Fund’s annual benefit gala April 20.

Entitled Star Turns: Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars!, the evening at the Hudson Theatre will be directed by Dan Foster and hosted by Julie Halston.

The one-night-only event will boast the talents of Bernadette Peters, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jefferson Mays, Idina Menzel, Nathan Lane, Christine Ebersole, David Hyde Pierce, LaChanze, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jane Alexander, B.D. Wong, Karen Olivo and Alan Alda. The stars will be introduced by the writers whose work they will be performing.

The evening will begin with cocktails at 7 PM followed by dinner at 7:30 PM and the show at 8:30 PM.

The mission of the Dramatists Guild Fund is “to aid and nurture writers for the theater; to fund non-profit theaters producing contemporary American works; and to heighten awareness, appreciation, and support of theater across the country.”

The Hudson Theatre is located within the Millennium Hotel, 145 West 44th Street. Tickets are priced $1,000 per person. For more information call The Center for Creative Resources at (212) 864-7827 or visit www.dgfund.org.
-Playbill.com

Idina has donated 2 tickets and a meet & greet to The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ on March 21, 2009! They are currently running an auction for the tickets with all of the proceeds going to benefit LIFEbeat, an organization that works with the music industry to raise money for AIDS research.

To view and bid on the auction, click here.

According to Syracuse University’s events website, Pulse, Idina will be making a guest appearance at their 2009 “Women of Distinction” awards ceremony on March 20 at 3:00 pm in Goldstein Auditorium – the same venue she is performing at on March 19! Idina’s concert at SU is a part of their Women’s History Month event schedule, so it’s pretty cool they also asked her to stay and speak at their awards ceremony.

Tickets are still available for the March 19 concert by calling the box office at (315) 443-4517. $20 per person ($5 for SU students), and it is General Admission.

And on a related note, the meet & greet contest for Idina’s spring tour is now open! Just head over to Idina’s Official Fan Club to enter! Remember, only members of Idina’s Official Fan Club are eligible to attend the meet & greet, so join up if you want your chance to meet Idina!

Exciting news, friends! TV Guide is reporting that Idina is going to guest star for multiple episodes on Taye’s hit ABC series, Private Practice. The episodes will be airing later this season.

Details about her appearance have been reported as follows:

[…] Tony winner Idina Menzel will guest-star on the ABC series later this season, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

In multiple episodes, Menzel will play the mother of a patient tended to by Pete (Tim Daly). To hear one source tell it, Pete’s special brand of “bedside manner” might bring about an attraction between him and Menzel’s character. At this early stage, it’s unclear if Menzel and her main man will share many scenes […]

-TV Guide