Idina & Taye will be appearing a young voter registration rally in Kansas City, Missouri on behalf of the Obama/Biden campaign tomorrow! If you’re in the area and if you’re a US citizen 18+ and aren’t registered to vote yet, make sure you head down there and get signed up!

Youth Civic Engagement Rally & Canvass Kick-Off w/ Taye Diggs, Aisha Tyler & Idina Menzel

Join us at Penn Vally (Little Theatre) for a Youth Civic Engagement Rally & Canvass Kick-Off w/ Taye Diggs, Aisha Tyler & Idina Menzel. We will be leaving the rally to register voters in communities across KC! For more information call, 816-977-3201. This rally is free and open to the public.

Time: Saturday, October 4 at 12:00 PM
Contact Phone: 816-977-3201
Location: Penn Valley – (Little Theatre)
3201 SW Trafficway
Kansas City, MO 64111

For more info and to RSVP, click here.

Columbia Tribune

More Hollywood celebrities will visit the University of Missouri this weekend to stump for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Taye Diggs, of ABC’s “Private Practice,” and wife Idina Menzel, who both starred on Broadway and on screen in the musical “Rent,” will appear from 4:30 to 6 p.m. tomorrow afternoon on MU’s Lowry Mall alongside actress Aisha Tyler, who has appeared in a number of television shows such as “Friends” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

The actors will encourage students to register to vote and will stump for Obama. The event is free to the public. Last week, actor Don Cheadle was on campus Thursday for a similar event.

In honor of the upcoming 5th anniversary of Wicked, the Original Broadway Cast recording is being re-released as a special edition 2-track CD set on October 28. Idina contributed one of her remixes of “Defying Gravity” to the collection. You can pre-order the album through Barnes & Noble for $19.99 by clicking here.

Disc 1: Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording Disc 2: 1 For Good [Bonus Version] – LeAnn Rimes & Delta Goodrem 2 I’m Not That Girl [Bonus Version] – Kerry Ellis 3 Making Good [Bonus Version] – Stephanie J. Block 4 Solang ich dich hab (Wicked: Germany) 5 Gutes tun (Wicked: Germany) 6 Dancing Through Life (Wicked: Japan) 7 Popular (Wicked: Japan) 8 Defying Gravity [Dance Mix] – Idina Menzel

As part of her UK press tour, Idina gave an interview to British publication The Jewish Chronicle. It’s a very good, in-depth interview where she discusses what’s behind the songs she wrote, politics, and her attachment to her Jewish culture. You can read the full interview below.

Idina Menzel: ‘I seem confident, but I’m fighting fear’
by Paul Lester
September 26, 2008

Acting, singing, comedy – Idina Menzel can do it all, and that includes severe self-doubt. It has a lot to do with her parents.

Idina Menzel is one of the biggest names in musical theatre, having appeared in Rent on Broadway and Wicked in the West End, as well as a film actress, starring most recently in Disney fantasy, Enchanted. She is also a recording artist, her latest, mostly self-penned album, I Stand, being produced by Glen Ballard, the man who helped Alanis Morissette sell 16 million copies of Jagged Little Pill.

So which is the real Idina Menzel – the nice Jewish girl from Long Island: the turbo-lunged diva singing flawless power ballads in musicals, or the “edgy little rocker” (her words) whose gritty performances on I Stand put her more in the Sheryl Crow category of raunchy female singer-songwriters? It turns out the answer could be all of them because Menzel fancies herself as a bit of a Renaissance woman.

Click “Read More” for the complete article.

Idina appeared on London’s “Paul O’Grady Show” today, and it’s made its way to the wonderful Internet for the rest of the world’s viewing! Idina’s presently in the UK promoting I Stand, which will be released in the UK on October 13! It should be available in the usual music shops, but if you can’t find it, you can always order it from Amazon UK right here. This would also be a good time to note that the UK release’s tracklisting comes bearing a few bonuses that were not on the US release. Here is the complete tracklisting:

1. I Stand
2. Better To Have Loved
3. Brave
4. Gorgeous
5. Where Do I Begin?
6. Don’t Let Me Down
7. I Feel Everything
8. Forever
9. My Own Worst Enemy
10. Perfume & Promises
11. Defying Gravity*
12. God Give Me Strength*
13. Brave (UK Mix)**
14. Gorgeous (Craig C’s Master Mix)*
*Tracks currently available in the US on various releases
**UK-exclusive track

Note: This version of the album will be made available for international purchase in the Official Store upon its release.

“Paul O’Grady Show” Part 1 – Sept 23, 2008 Description: Performance of “Gorgeous” Time: 4:30 Size: unknown Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) UK PRESS TOUR Posted on September 17, 2008October 20, 2009 by Erin IMMB has announced the first wave of Idina’s UK press tour while she’s there promoting the release of I Stand. If you live in the UK, be sure you tune in for all her interviews! And as always, if you’re able to, and would like to contribute to our archives by digitally recording these appearances, send Kim a note! All times listed are GMT. 18 September: Smooth Radio’s 6@6 Interview – should be able to stream live online! 23 September: C4 – Paul O’Grady Show – 5:00 pm Interview 12 October: ITV Southbank Special – For One Night Only Performance 13 October: ITV – This Morning – 10:30 am Performance of “Brave” She has several other radio and print interviews lined up, but these are the only ones with confirmed airdates. We will post the rest once they are scheduled. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)