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.

[@scrappymitchell]

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

[@MauritsVeen]

Well this didn’t age well

[@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

[@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.

[@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]

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.

[@belly1976]

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

[@Funkyagtoys]

Kristin's by far the best Glinda

[@Sobe203]

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

[@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"

[@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

[@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

[@WHATTHEBUCKSHOW]

so young!

[@kaitlync7633]

Hi buck!!!!!!!

[@circlenostar]

+WHATTHEBUCKSHOW and Kristin's hair!

[@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.

[@baa2979]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@mariaconcesavillas3444]

Watching during the quarantine 2020.

[@rosiepag]

Idina looks gorgeous!

[@broadwaybrook2319]

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

[@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.

[@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!!!!

[@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

[@jboao]

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

[@LauraAlyce]

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

[@sophiat8250]

Just make out already oh my god

[@jboao]

Jamie Mueller shut up

[@hermionelunaginny1127]

I think Menzel still has some spray on her face XD

[@MichaelSoldierWorks]

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

[@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.

[@justagirliepop]

Idina's laugh is adorable!

[@julianabrady7600]

Both the best to ever do their respective roles

[@JosieDuncanSong]

Idina goes good with green!

[@kp4692]

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

[@maiawong9703]

K P same

[@erri13]

I love Idina and Kristin! thank you!!!

[@TheRentheadGleek]

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

[@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.

[@BroadwayBeckons]

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

[@ciaransammon]

This is all so adorable!!

[@AndrewSterlingCaporale]

Lol that hair on Kristen....

[@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.

[@musicalfanatic]

Thank you so much! I love this clip!

[@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

[@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*

[@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.

[@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.

[@megafork]

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

[@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.

[@redatpct]

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

[@maiawong9703]

Awwww they’re so cuteeee

[@masterbate9948]

and they were roommates

[@ceanne-6599]

jesus i see you everywhere in these vids

[@lr3565]

"He has like tattoos" lmao Kristin

[@heartofagreengirl]

wow, hes so enthusiastic in the beginning :-P

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@Jen2261]

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

[@Isladepee25]

Kristin just looks so good

[@xoTossTossxo]

i love that part in the book when Avaric lol

[@erri13]

I love this interview. LOVE IT.

[@Sydride98]

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

[@yoyoyayaification]

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

[@emmafairytailer4664]

i love them both! #WickedIsAmazing

[@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.

[@maisonneuve]

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

[@UnoriginalUsername]

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

[@BRIANNAVLIET]

Omg I love these 2❤❤

[@Xeria]

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

[@KristinandIdinagirl]

I love them!!!

[@erri13]

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

[@MaryJoeCCS]

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

[@broadwaymike92]

ADELE DAZEEM!!!!

[@J0k394]

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

[@Ifonlyyoucouldsee]

I am dying to see wicked

[@celestinesuah9093]

Yeah my friend's dad operated on him!

[@elfielvr]

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

[@Kate917]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@Sydride98]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@antha97]

I LOVE WICKED!!!!

[@wickedgalpeek08]

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

[@ruankeviin]

this video is older than me 🥴🥴

[@BeeDub57]

Good stuff.

[@ninskimig123]

@broommouse you know who says it?? :D

[@andy9206]

The set has changed quite alot for one short day, has it not? :P:P

[@ilovBHH]

i love how its L.F.Baum. L Fa Ba eLPHaBa =]

[@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

[@elfiyero]

i read in the book and in son of a witch that fiyero was black with blue diamonds tattooed all over him.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Yep. He was a literal "diamond stud", as it were. Gelphie was also semi-canon, as Galinda & Elphie are BI.

[@mebee415]

no why does my comment have -6 rating and someone who agrees with me has +2?? NOT FAIR! i love kristin chenoweth i was just commenting on her...im mad :(

[@batgirlnicole]

its ok until the bubble machine breaks... and ill be covered in bubble juice... ill be like let be Bleck .. or sometimes i swallow bubbles.. :) .. lol best part :D:D

[@celestinesuah9093]

She crimped it. It's quite simple. You can just use a hair crimp.