Idina & Kristin on A&E Breakfast with the Arts

Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth being interviewed by Elliott Forrest about "Wicked" on "A&E Breakfast with the Arts" program in 2004(?). Great interview discussing their characters, costumes, and Taye Diggs's brief run as Fiyero (with Kristin's famous "I promise I won't stick my tongue down his throat!" comment).
Note: Please see Kim's Idina site at idina-here.com/ for more Idina Menzel media. This MAY have been originally coded by her, but since I got it second-hand, I can't be absolutely sure.

[@PhoenixTears625]

You can really tell that they have such a bond together, they have really connected during their performances. i LOVE wicked!

[@allthatjazzspaz95]

The hair! The clothes! SO early 2000s. :)

[@fortynights1513]

03 or 04 I believe. Breakfast with the Arts was the last semblance of A&E’s initial vision, unless I’m forgetting something.

[@broadwaymike92]

And now Idina is getting a lot more attention because of FROZEN as the voice of ELSA!!!! Her performance in that movie has been considered her best since Wicked!!

[@Charmedchick111]

I love it when Kristin says "I promise not to stick my toungue down his throat" I also love how they were both so tongue-tied its was cute!!! lol

[@scrappymitchell]

I love how Idina just lights up when Taye is mentioned it's so sweet

[@millangullehag4138]

More like: “oh shit I have a husband”

[@Isladepee25]

I’m sorry I can’t stop laughing at how that turned out

[@scrappymitchell]

@@Isladepee25 we pretend we do not see this comment

[@HisRoyalMajesty_Bob_the_Sponge]

nah theyre in a healthy relationship as the parents of their child. they still talk about each other in interviews, super cute.

[@belly1976]

I looooooove Idina. Her laugh is so dorky. She's adorable

[@ArtistsInsanity]

Omigod, Kristin's hair.

[@minaturedinofan]

Emma Melaney no she doesn't leave her alone!!

[@minaturedinofan]

What do you mean "sort of"? Your opinion but wow

[@elizadoolittle23]

It’s soo 2000s, but these days she would probably get blasted for “cultural appropriation” 😂 the 2000s were such a simpler time! I wish we could go back to that era

[@elliotinit3626]

@@minaturedinofan hi just thought I'd remind u.

[@Sobe203]

"Oh, there goes the cows, just like I've seen!" LOL. I love Kristin.

[@Funkyagtoys]

Kristin's by far the best Glinda

[@SultrySole]

i love how theyre both wearing their characters' colors, i wonder if that was planned??

[@maiawong9703]

Awwww the “it’s all green” in the beginning was so cute

[@pickmelast]

i LOVE idina's laugh after she says "and it's al green"

[@baa2979]

hahah Bubble Machine "I pop them with my wand if I get really bored"

[@hermionelunaginny1127]

Think about it. Menzel has to say "it's not her! She has nothing to do with it! It's me you want! It's meeeeeeeeeeeee" while she's being strapped into a harness or something.

[@sophovot5079]

Is it just me or is Idina looking kind of green :D

[@soopersalad2509]

Sophovot probably residue from the show?

[@elliotinit3626]

Ummmm no, maybe it's ur eyes :D

[@bennya7083]

I agree

[@Diehardwickedfan]

i luv chenoweth's hair, and how when idina listens to people talk she gets this serious face. lol

[@maren3243]

11:35 Idina and Kristin fangirling, LOVE IT ahhah

[@WHATTHEBUCKSHOW]

so young!

[@kaitlync7633]

Hi buck!!!!!!!

[@circlenostar]

+WHATTHEBUCKSHOW and Kristin's hair!

[@mariaconcesavillas3444]

Watching during the quarantine 2020.

[@Puddin1985]

@LittleMissMe2006 I read somewhere - I think it was in Kristin's book - that during a Wicked rehearsal once she dipped Idina and full on kissed her! Lol. Or Idina dipped her ... but yes it happened. She said the whole cast and crew were in stitches and Idina said "And I enjoyed it!" Lol.

[@scrappymitchell]

They are very close friends, they admit they are very different but they are close friends. They've always liked each other

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Yep. That's why they were able to be Galinda (Glinda the Good) and Elphie (the not-so Wicked Witch of the West), who are bezzies/lovers who are polar opposites.

[@MusicMakesMeBri]

Have you not seen the footage from Cheno's last show..? I mean, yes "they're actors" but if they really didn't like eachother... I don't think that Idina would have been crying the way she did and I don't think they would have embraced each other the way they did.

[@maiawong9703]

Bri Conley they love each other haha

[@broadwaybrook2319]

They're just two friends, two best friends

[@imagineoceans]

haha "i pop the bubbles when i'm bored" both of them are the best!

[@rosiepag]

Idina looks gorgeous!

[@broadwaybrook2319]

I mean, when does she not look gorgeous? Let's be real

[@StephenCollins]

I was the audio engineer on this show; it was a great day...

[@Ren-ye9li]

Stephen Collins Sound Designer wow. That’s amazing! You’re so lucky. What was it like?

[@siobhannelson5386]

omg i am so jealous of you lol

[@meganmacewan5302]

I hate chenzel said no one ever

[@totallynicolee0190]

Haha totally. No one can hate chenzel

[@hewodoge6620]

Megan MacEwan wait I thought you meant as friends omg

[@hewodoge6620]

I get you

[@xxSherbearsxx]

Those two are so sweet together....they sre clearly best friends and inseperable....and trust me it is great to a have a friendship like that....WICKED IS THE BEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME!!!!

[@LauraAlyce]

idina actually looks mildly green - that is really quite funny!

[@jboao]

Miss the early 2000s... can we go back

[@hermionelunaginny1127]

I think Menzel still has some spray on her face XD

[@sophiat8250]

Just make out already oh my god

[@jboao]

Jamie Mueller shut up

[@MichaelSoldierWorks]

what an awesome job interviewing two incredible and incredibly talented people!

[@justagirliepop]

Idina's laugh is adorable!

[@julianabrady7600]

Both the best to ever do their respective roles

[@JosieDuncanSong]

Idina goes good with green!

[@erri13]

I love Idina and Kristin! thank you!!!

[@musicalfanatic]

Thank you so much! I love this clip!

[@nouf14]

Who came from the future 😭😂😂😂😂🤣

[@annekavandervelde8198]

Nouf Tube me

[@elizadoolittle23]

I come from 2020, it’s still pretty shitty here. Stay where you are!

[@maiawong9703]

Eliza Doolittle facts

[@abbyhafener3219]

2020

[@ceanne-6599]

well i came from 2021 its still depressing.

[@kp4692]

Omg I wasn’t even born when this video came out

[@maiawong9703]

K P same

[@TheRentheadGleek]

Idina looks so different! Her lips look so much bigger than what they are :P

[@nerdfightersRus]

i love at the very beginning when idina's says "it's all green" and she's like WHAT at the chorus member that passes. hilarious.

[@TheShazka]

I LOVE Chenos hair!!!!! :D She is soooooo cute!! :D

[@erri13]

I love this interview. LOVE IT.

[@cheno93]

omg, i am a huge kristin fan, and I actually LOVE her hair. She looks beautiful. At first I was like Oh my god, what happened there, but she actually looks stunning and very bold. i like that she tried something new and in my opinion made it work for her.

[@tishtashtishtash]

Why are people so invested in wagering how much two people do or don't like each other? They obviously respect one another and also realize that their mutual success depended a fair amount on the other. It's amazing that just because they're not joined at the hip every single time they're seen in public, people with little better to do in their daily lives like to concoct some phantom feud to self-justify their meager existence.

[@AndrewSterlingCaporale]

Lol that hair on Kristen....

[@BRIANNAVLIET]

Omg I love these 2❤❤

[@KristinandIdinagirl]

I love them!!!

[@MarynaSophia]

I think disney is gonna make the movie of wicked because they made oz the great and powerful and return to oz an older story about Dorothy

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

No. Wicked's owned by 3rd party Universal. The MGM film is owned by Warner Bros.

[@maiawong9703]

Awwww they’re so cuteeee

[@MrsLovettt]

KRISTIN! She looks..SO different. WOW. Her hairs fab. I think Idina and Kristin are like a real life Elphie and Glinda. =P

[@VeggieChick77]

Oklahoma? Psh, I live in Kansas. You can only imagine how much that movie affected my childhood. I *love* these two. :D

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Ding Dong, the Witch is Not Dead in this case. XD Proper respect to Maggie Hamilton & Billie Burke who set the stage for them. Also respect to Matilda Joslyn Gage, L. Frank Baum's suffragist mother-in-law who inspired the creation of all of Baum's witches in the source book that started it all. Tattypoo the Good Witch of the North & Glinda the Good Witch of the South were condensed into Glinda the Good Witch of the North for the MGM film & the various adaptations, Wicked included. Idina Menzel is Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West (thanks to Margaret Hamilton's character work from the MGM film & her attempts to make the Wicked Witch likable in outside projects like her appearance on Sesame Street [sadly banned], Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and Paul Lynde's Halloween Spooktacular, also featuring Witchypoo from Sid & Marty Kroftt's H.R. Puff-n-stuff). In Wicked, Elphie's crippled holier-than-thou sister is Nessarose, the Wicked Witch of the East.

[@secretsout23]

okay so is it just me or at 7:49 or 50 do you hear someone say "give it to her"? i keep replaying it over and over but yea anyways i love 'em both. lol

[@IamCurrentlyAscending]

I know it's 10 years after this comment, but I went back and listened: It's there, and it's creepy.

[@emmafairytailer4664]

i love them both! #WickedIsAmazing

[@megafork]

idina has a green tinge! maybe it's just the lighting...but...wow.

[@redatpct]

i love those two women dearly. idina is soo beautiful, and ethnic

[@lr3565]

"He has like tattoos" lmao Kristin

[@heartofagreengirl]

wow, hes so enthusiastic in the beginning :-P

[@musicalbabe27]

i think making it a movie would be wonderful! seeing something as amazing as wicked in a movie mould make people want to see it more live because its just that muhc better, Cats and rent were both like that.

[@BroadwayBeckons]

"Liquid bubble juice..." "He had, like, tattoos..." Kristin is hilarious.

[@Jen2261]

@ThexImperfectionist Kristin wrote about it in her autobiography 'A Little Bit Wicked.'

[@Sydride98]

@OneLastRefrain1 Thanx I kept hearin' about that in alot of interveiws i watched and had no idea wat they were talkin' about

[@katie12998]

omg!!!!!!! kristins hair is CRAZY!!!!!

[@Jen2261]

@ThexImperfectionist Cool. Its a really good book! Forewarning there's not much Idina/Kristin action though. I was looking for it too but overall Kristin's life is very interesting and the book is very funny just like Kristin. Lol

[@Xeria]

hey bidi..don't worry...i love u for uploading this video up i like it

[@xoTossTossxo]

i love that part in the book when Avaric lol

[@Isladepee25]

Kristin just looks so good

[@jakegadomski4104]

Does anyone else think that Idina kind of looks like Kim Kardashian in this video? lol

[@emmafairytailer4664]

+Jake Gadomski Perhaps a little bit! buti personally think Idina is 100% prettier and more genuine that KK. no offence meant though...

[@Kate917]

I looooooooove both of them! what did kristin do to her hair?

[@vampirechunks]

The 80's called, Kristin, and they want their hair back. LOL Oh what the heque... I'll take that woman any way she comes. I love, love, LOVES me the Chenoweth. *WUB*

[@antha97]

I LOVE WICKED!!!!

[@clkrebel]

@Puddin1985 Kristin talked about it in her book. I think it happened because they were stalling. Something happened with the lights or set or something, so one of them dipped the other and they were all rolling.

[@BeeDub57]

Good stuff.

[@UnoriginalUsername]

MMMMM wicked Love it love it love it Love Cheno Love Dee :D

[@masterbate9948]

and they were roommates

[@ceanne-6599]

jesus i see you everywhere in these vids

[@Ifonlyyoucouldsee]

I am dying to see wicked

[@J0k394]

@clkrebel there was a tense atmosphere for whatever reason and Kristin dipped Idina to break up the tension

[@broadwaymike92]

ADELE DAZEEM!!!!

[@ThexImperfectionist]

@Jen2261 Where did you hear that?

[@yoyoyayaification]

If I could see the OBC revival live I might actually die of exctiment

[@Sydride98]

what happened to Norbert anyway that he couldn't be in Wicked? I've watched all sorts of interveiws where they say that.

[@OneLastRefrain1]

@Sydride98 Durring the run he got a back injoury (idk how) and i believe had to get surgery or something and had to leave for a coupple of weeks but was back on in like 2-4 weeks. (Thank god because taye is good and all but is NOT a Fiyero not like NLB

[@erri13]

AMAZiNGG ViDEO!!! CHEN0 iS SO0 FUNNY AND iDiNA iS JUST AWESOMEE!! i L0VEE HOW iDiNA SAYS "UMM ... UMM!!" HAHAHA!!! L0LZZ!!

[@celestinesuah9093]

Yeah my friend's dad operated on him!

[@maisonneuve]

Wow. I love Kristin Chenoweth, but I have to say... Kristin, the 90's called and it wants its hair back...

[@elfielvr]

LMAO - I know ! The Cheno-crimp!!! hahahaha.. she's so adorable! :D

[@ThexImperfectionist]

@Jen2261 perfect. it's being shipped to me as I type. Amazon taking it's time as always unfortunately. I was hoping for some Idina/Kristin Wicked juiciness.

[@ninskimig123]

@broommouse you know who says it?? :D

[@jraehol]

@margarita141414 Maybe they do and maybe they don't. But do you really think actors are always themselves and honest in these interviews? They say and do what they have to do for the good of their careers. These two are professionals. If they hated each other, do you really think they would sit there sullen-faced and publicly express their dislike for one another? No, they would behave just as they did in this video and keep their personal feelings separate from their work.

[@secretsout23]

@TheRachel666 glad i'm not the only one lol i wonder who's saying it and who they're saying it too..? :D

[@xxemilyannexx21]

what does idina say at 10:29..??? something about her throat?? and taye??

[@siobhannelson5386]

she said that she’s not worried about kristin sticking her tongue down tayes throat, but that “she might stick her tongue down my throat” lol

[@secretsout23]

@TheRachel666 lol glad i'm not alone :D

[@broadwaylove52]

yeah, but they probably changed the story so it was more to-the-point and appealing. not just that, but it showed the characters' depth without having to explain everything that was in the book. thats just what i think

[@kimmy50143]

2004

[@MaryJoeCCS]

if you notice Idina is green, so I'm pretty sure they did it on purpose to be in character :)

[@wickedgalpeek08]

never mind kristins hair lol what the heck is that jumper idina is wearing lol bless em i love em both tho :) xoxox

[@erri13]

Ohhh ....

[@titfortat2]

I dont know if they had a bet to see who wear the worse outfitt that day. But boy its tought to pick a winner. And normal both of them look amazing buy wow not on this interview

[@Bekahchloee]

It's just the placement of the mics.

[@TheRachel666]

@secretsout23 yea thats wat i hear as well lolz :P