Speaker 1: Oh, September. What a beautiful, beautiful season of the year.
Speaker 1: I love this season. I say beautiful, but it's also
Speaker 1: kind of bumpy. September is a time of profound change,
Speaker 1: and change often means disruption. It's a month much like
Speaker 1: its spring counterpart, March, where anything goes is the typical
Speaker 1: weather forecast in most areas. One day it's beautiful, one
Speaker 1: day it's raining. Could be calm and mild, could be hot,
Speaker 1: and Muggie could send us rain and wind. Even if
Speaker 1: serene summer weather does hang out a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: September does the equivalent of flooding our emails with reminders
Speaker 1: that fall in soon winter just around the corner. It's
Speaker 1: those cooler mornings and cooler nights, the shorter days, the
Speaker 1: trees that aren't quite shedding their summer coats yet but
Speaker 1: begin randomly dropping their leaves hither and thither. In yonn
Speaker 1: that tell us would better enjoy every drop of sunshine
Speaker 1: we can soak up. If you live in a place
Speaker 1: that affords you the opportunity to study the behaviors of
Speaker 1: some of the wild critters, you probably pick up right now,
Speaker 1: and they're frenzied behaviors especially those that are collecting and
Speaker 1: storing food for the winter. Hello, Mr squirrel, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you. I'm actually talking to me because I'm like
Speaker 1: a squirrel every fall. I'm canning. I'm canning, I'm freezing.
Speaker 1: I'm dehydrating because I'm storing up food for the winter.
Speaker 1: Those reminders served me to jar up everything that I can.
Speaker 1: I put away the patio furniture and make sure the
Speaker 1: gutters are cleaned out. While I should make sure the
Speaker 1: gutters are cleaned out, I forget that often I prepare
Speaker 1: the garden beds for winners worst. But these days also
Speaker 1: send me into a state of reflection, thinking of all
Speaker 1: the beautiful things September has brought to me in the past.
Speaker 1: September made me a mom with the birth of my
Speaker 1: oldest child, Isaiah, and then my second born, Sheila. September
Speaker 1: is the first bite of a ripe juicy apple in
Speaker 1: the knowledge that change, change is what propels us forward,
Speaker 1: even when we resisted, even when we hate it. Some
Speaker 1: of us, really, especially at this stage in life, hate change.
Speaker 1: No what else September brought us besides my kids finally
Speaker 1: getting to go back to in person learning the new
Speaker 1: movie Cinderella that opened September three in theaters and on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video. Why does this movie excite me so
Speaker 1: royal because one of my most favorite actresses plays the
Speaker 1: evils stepmother Broadway sensation Adina Menzel, who I first saw
Speaker 1: way way back in her Tony winning role of Alphaba,
Speaker 1: the Wicked Witch of the West and the smash musical
Speaker 1: Wicked that I've seen like eight times now. And who
Speaker 1: everyone I mean, everyone who has a child or a
Speaker 1: grandchild is familiar with well familiar with her voice, at
Speaker 1: least as Elsa in Disney's Oscar Award winning Frozen. No
Speaker 1: one else is super exciting she is here with us today.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get caught up with her and
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Speaker 1: I have a co host with me in the studio.
Speaker 1: This is Delilah Jr. H. If her plan went through,
Speaker 1: she would be in her first day of school today,
Speaker 1: but some paperwork was missing, and so instead she got
Speaker 1: to come home and she gets to meet and talk
Speaker 1: with Idina. I don't know if you remember. We had
Speaker 1: lunch together many many moons ago, and my daughter, Sheyla came,
Speaker 1: who was at that time your biggest fan, and I
Speaker 1: had taken her to see you and Wicked. And now
Speaker 1: Delilah is your biggest fan, and she has not yet
Speaker 1: got to see a new movie. And then we'll get
Speaker 1: to watch the movie later on. The movie's great, it's fun. So,
Speaker 1: Idina men Zelli, what have you done? What have you
Speaker 1: been doing during the COVID shutdown? You've been busy, busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 1: I've been busier, probably than I would have thought. During
Speaker 1: a pandemic. Cinderella happened, and then I came home for
Speaker 1: what was going to be a two week break to
Speaker 1: see my family and then didn't go back for months
Speaker 1: because of COVID, and then we that one little you know,
Speaker 1: kind of dipped down the numbers. They got it, they
Speaker 1: had figured out how to be safe on set and
Speaker 1: got us back in and we we finished the film,
Speaker 1: the films Cinderella, and then a couple of months go
Speaker 1: by and then I just finished Enchanted. Yeah, so I've
Speaker 1: been busy in making music. But mostly, you know, the
Speaker 1: pandemic for me was a silver lining and that I
Speaker 1: got to be home more and go to my son's
Speaker 1: basketball practices and just be a mom and a wife
Speaker 1: and hang out at home. And I would like to
Speaker 1: see it that I learned how to cook like everybody does,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. I did a few arts and crafts,
Speaker 1: and I found that I liked dakupage ng Jacopa chair
Speaker 1: and some vases. I loved acupage. I ate the whole house,
Speaker 1: and I'm age posh. I went a little crazy. I
Speaker 1: I love to cook. And maybe a month or two
Speaker 1: before the COVID shut down, two of my girlfriends taught
Speaker 1: me how to make sour dough bread and one shared
Speaker 1: a starter that's like fifty years old. So my girlfriends
Speaker 1: and I became the sour Dough Sisterhood, and now I
Speaker 1: shared the same starter. It has a name, and we
Speaker 1: became the Sour Dough Sisterhood. And we would send pictures
Speaker 1: to each other, you know, where we put like herbs
Speaker 1: in it, or herb butter in it, or Janie added
Speaker 1: because my producer, Janie is very health conscious, so she
Speaker 1: added all these healthy nuts and grains and she only
Speaker 1: used hold wheat bread. Then we would send pictures to
Speaker 1: each other. And then I noticed as the year went on,
Speaker 1: the picture of me holding the bread the bread loaf
Speaker 1: was the same size, but I but you're asked that bigger. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was growing like with each picture, and I'm like, shoot,
Speaker 1: should I edit these? Like should I use the body
Speaker 1: shaping thing? Get rid of that sour dough middle that
Speaker 1: I've created. So it was a wonderful experience, but boy,
Speaker 1: now I'm trying to walk ten thousand steps a day
Speaker 1: to trim trim down the sour rating. For a minute, though,
Speaker 1: wasn't it just to kind of just eat whatever and
Speaker 1: not worry about having to be on camera public in
Speaker 1: some way and just enjoy And it was great until
Speaker 1: I realized I had to get back into my corset
Speaker 1: for Cinderella, and then I that will be so humiliating
Speaker 1: if they have to extend the corset and it redo
Speaker 1: the costume out on the peloton. At that point started
Speaker 1: trying to work off my sour bread. Well, I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten back up, you know. I haven't done a speaking
Speaker 1: tour or anything since this hit. But I am doing
Speaker 1: my ten thousand steps a day, or I'm trying to anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: so you finished Cinderella. I did a commercial for it
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to watch it because I want to watch it
Speaker 1: with the kids. But tell me about that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's really joyous, honestly, the music and the arrangements and
Speaker 1: and she's not a whimp. I hear, she's not waiting
Speaker 1: for the Brinds Desavers. Are you gonna have a good life? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very modern. It's modern take on Cinderella, and it's
Speaker 1: it's good. I think that, you know, we have to
Speaker 1: they say these these stories are timeless, but sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't always stand the test of time. When I need
Speaker 1: a little recalibrating and we need to look at them
Speaker 1: as a society and just just until still a lot
Speaker 1: I have had a very hard time as a mother
Speaker 1: with eight girls, exposing them to Disney princesses who were
Speaker 1: waiting for their night in Shining Armor, their prince Charming
Speaker 1: to kiss them and wake them up or whatever, because
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not real life. I know. That's why
Speaker 1: I feel lucky that I'm Elsa and Frozen, because I
Speaker 1: think that that Disney team that created Frozen was really
Speaker 1: trying to be responsible and held accountable in that way,
Speaker 1: and that that was all about the two sisters falling
Speaker 1: in love with one another really and being there for
Speaker 1: each other. And so I think that there's a trend
Speaker 1: to really do the work there. And in Cinderella, it's
Speaker 1: really about a woman not compromising herself and not settling
Speaker 1: and having a vision of what she wants in life.
Speaker 1: And and also it's a really nice role model for
Speaker 1: young men to see because the man she chooses is
Speaker 1: actually very supportive of her and wants her to be
Speaker 1: her best self. Wouldn't that be nice if we could
Speaker 1: always give that message and that our young daughters received
Speaker 1: that message that you know what, you can make it
Speaker 1: on your own if you choose to have a prince
Speaker 1: Charming in your life. Make sure he loves you for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's just that's how I feel in my with my
Speaker 1: husband now. I just feel like he sees me. He
Speaker 1: sees me for who I am and with all my imperfections,
Speaker 1: but he also sees them as being my strengths and
Speaker 1: what makes me special. And so he's a good example
Speaker 1: for my son and to see my son to see
Speaker 1: the way that he treats me with that kind of respect,
Speaker 1: and for my son to see the way I treat
Speaker 1: myself and the characters I play, and that I you know,
Speaker 1: I feel a lot of guilt as a working woman
Speaker 1: when I leave my son or I'm busy for the day,
Speaker 1: or you know, can't be at every practice or game.
Speaker 1: But he's also seeing that his mom does what she
Speaker 1: loves to do and what she's passionate about for a living.
Speaker 1: Does he have any clue how amazing I am amazing
Speaker 1: and slapped and hot a DNA that you are, that's right?
Speaker 1: How how you drip with with awesomeness? Thank you? Know? Um?
Speaker 1: I think he does. I think, depending on the day,
Speaker 1: plays it off. But um, he's very proud. He will.
Speaker 1: It all comes down to this one time where the
Speaker 1: teacher called me and said, Um, he was a music
Speaker 1: class and she asked everyone to raise her hand and
Speaker 1: tell what who their favorite singer was, and he said
Speaker 1: my mom. So I think about that every time he
Speaker 1: screams set me when I'm singing something in the shower
Speaker 1: and tells me it's too loud and annoying. I take
Speaker 1: myself back to that music class. Nevermind myself that deep
Speaker 1: down he's very proud, and he's also probably going to
Speaker 1: use it to get some of the girls one day.
Speaker 1: Of course he is. Actually, I'll say, he actually really
Speaker 1: likes this movie because he likes that I'm kind of
Speaker 1: playing I shall I say the nemesis. Um, he likes it.
Speaker 1: The music I'm singing this, this original song I have
Speaker 1: in this in the movie that I co wrote called
Speaker 1: dream Girl, is really, as he would say, badass, and
Speaker 1: he wants me to rock more. I think. So he's
Speaker 1: excited by that. Very cool. That is awesome. So Cinderella
Speaker 1: out now available to anybody? Yeah? Is it? It's what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's out now, or it's on Amazon, or you can
Speaker 1: go to certain theaters and see it. I have to say,
Speaker 1: it's pretty awesome to see you on a big screen.
Speaker 1: You know, we're all assuming that we've just kind of
Speaker 1: we don't need it anymore and we're home. But one
Speaker 1: day it would really be nice if we could all
Speaker 1: safely get back into a theater because I got to
Speaker 1: see it outdoors and a big screen and it's just
Speaker 1: luminous and fun, and let's do that, let's do it
Speaker 1: out to me, you probably see more of my smile lines,
Speaker 1: Oh you're so beautiful, but um, it's good because of
Speaker 1: music and the dancing and the be um all the
Speaker 1: tracks are really you know, when you have great sound,
Speaker 1: it's just a different story, a completely different story. Somebody
Speaker 1: one said to me. You know, you can get up
Speaker 1: and pause and go to the bathroom, or if something
Speaker 1: emotionally makes you feel a little uncomfortable, you can stop it,
Speaker 1: Whereas when you're in a theater you have to sit
Speaker 1: with what the creators we're doing and whether whatever that
Speaker 1: makes you feel. And I think that's the lost art here.
Speaker 1: A little bit is that my husband gets up twelve
Speaker 1: times to pee in the middle of an emotional movie
Speaker 1: and where are you going? Where are you going, honey?
Speaker 1: Where I'm going to make popcorn and go into this
Speaker 1: and like, but this is not how it was intended
Speaker 1: for you to see. Well, it's you know, it's depressing.
Speaker 1: I know, we'd sit in it for a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: feel the feelings, It's okay, embrace the embrace the feelings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If a movie doesn't have like three car explosions in
Speaker 1: it and at least you know, two or three bad
Speaker 1: guys and the chase, and my husband isn't interested unless
Speaker 1: it's Princess Pride. Princess Pride, It's true, that's a great movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I'm I'm pretty evil, except then you learn what
Speaker 1: makes me tick in this movie, which is why I
Speaker 1: love it a lot, because you know, she's not just
Speaker 1: an archetype. She's she's definitely has levels and pain and
Speaker 1: human experience that you get to see, like Alpha ba. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm drawn to those characters, you know, as
Speaker 1: misunderstood powerful women that um that have to take their
Speaker 1: anger out by you know, and their anger, but their
Speaker 1: anger is frowned upon their rage, their power so becomes
Speaker 1: it becomes scary as opposed to becoming powerful and beautiful.
Speaker 1: And so this is a different angle on that, but
Speaker 1: but all stemming from the same place of women with
Speaker 1: strong talent and passion and strong feelings that temper them
Speaker 1: and bring them and suppress them, and then it comes
Speaker 1: out in different ways. And so I think it's important
Speaker 1: for everyone to keep reminding themselves that. But the whole
Speaker 1: point is to step into other people's footsteps, you know,
Speaker 1: and find that empathy. I mean, that's I think why
Speaker 1: I like being a performer, because I'm always asked to
Speaker 1: do that. I think is human beings. Before we judge
Speaker 1: someone is important to kind of think about what was
Speaker 1: their experience? Maybe why are they acting this by you know,
Speaker 1: I'm having so much fun getting caught up with you today, Adina.
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Speaker 1: confession session, something I do on my radio show often
Speaker 1: where I ask people tough questions and you can pass,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But I'm thinking of the three characters, the
Speaker 1: one you're describing in Cinderella and certainly Frozen your character,
Speaker 1: and as Alphabet and Wicked, And you just touched on
Speaker 1: how often when we are strong, when we are talented,
Speaker 1: when we are driven, were painted as batches or difficult
Speaker 1: or unmanageable. Where if a guy is talented and driven,
Speaker 1: he's the head of the company. He's the best thing ever.
Speaker 1: You know. He can take over the world. He can
Speaker 1: run these major corporations and have a race to space
Speaker 1: with his other multi billionaire buddies. So when in your
Speaker 1: person life, in your real life off screen, has there
Speaker 1: been a moment, And I know there's probably been many
Speaker 1: where you were made to feel like you should be
Speaker 1: less than who you are. There was a scene in
Speaker 1: Amadeus Mozart where the guy who had commissioned the requium
Speaker 1: or whatever said, it's there's too many notes and let's like, um,
Speaker 1: what do you mean there's too many? Take some out,
Speaker 1: get get rid of some of it. Is there a
Speaker 1: time that you can share where somebody made you feel
Speaker 1: like who you are, your talent, your personality, your beauty,
Speaker 1: your strength, your features that are like you're beautiful, thank you.
Speaker 1: But was there a time where, I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: a specific time when somebody tried to change my name
Speaker 1: and this is my birth name and they're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't go by the Lila. It sounds
Speaker 1: too made up. Yeah. Um, I'm thinking of several things,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to name names. I'm not asking
Speaker 1: you to hurt anybody. I never want to hurt anybody
Speaker 1: on the show. But well, I think of my wicked experience.
Speaker 1: But the person that was most at fault for the
Speaker 1: way I felt was honestly myself. Um, I allowed myself
Speaker 1: to feel insubordinate and like undeserving. I was so my
Speaker 1: insecurity was so high, it's going to get fired in
Speaker 1: every incarnation of the workshops and different things of Wicked.
Speaker 1: And I so adored and revered Christian Channoit's process and
Speaker 1: how like she was just she really was such a
Speaker 1: pro and she seemed like hit the character to me,
Speaker 1: she was so perfect and every time she said her
Speaker 1: line to everyone laughed, and I was just really feeling like, um,
Speaker 1: not feeling Wicked at all. And so that became like
Speaker 1: a self fulfilling prophecy because the more I tried to
Speaker 1: fake it, I just felt worse and worse about myself.
Speaker 1: So this is one of those beautiful times where the
Speaker 1: character and the person were, you know, art imitating life
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. I remembered of one night where the
Speaker 1: director had said, like, step into your light. I mean,
Speaker 1: the show is called Wicked, let's go like, let's be badass.
Speaker 1: You know you're holding back and only and I don't
Speaker 1: like to say this because I want young people to really, um,
Speaker 1: not copy other people and embrace what makes them unique.
Speaker 1: And yet I think there's a time to emulate the
Speaker 1: people that inspire us. And I had this moment when
Speaker 1: I was backstage and I said to myself, tonight, I
Speaker 1: am going to pretend like I'm Glenn Close playing alf
Speaker 1: blah blah. She would hold for applause, she would take
Speaker 1: a long about, she would hold the notes longer, she
Speaker 1: would let the silences just linger, you know, like there
Speaker 1: would be no worrying about being too good or too
Speaker 1: talented or too powerful. And so that was the best
Speaker 1: show I ever had because I said, no, you hold here,
Speaker 1: they're applauding. Don't go into the next song yet, take
Speaker 1: that in or or lay into this line, and don't
Speaker 1: be afraid to be angry or powerful. This is who
Speaker 1: you are, you know. And it's so that's that's always
Speaker 1: a weird example for me to talk about, because I
Speaker 1: want kids to like, really believe in what makes them unique.
Speaker 1: And yet sometimes we have to look to the women
Speaker 1: that we are inspired by for a little help sometimes.
Speaker 1: You know, my mom was a very big I'm five
Speaker 1: ten and she was three inches taller than me, very
Speaker 1: big woman, but she was she looked like a model.
Speaker 1: You know, she was beautiful, and she had a very
Speaker 1: big personality. And it wasn't until much later in life
Speaker 1: that I realized she had a lot of insecurities, a lot.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times, you know, you were you
Speaker 1: were talking about what would Glenn Close do? And when
Speaker 1: I would be going into a situation, and I would
Speaker 1: be just be so anxious, in a bundle of nerves.
Speaker 1: I would think about my mom and how you know,
Speaker 1: she would walk into the principal's office and she would
Speaker 1: defend her daughter, and my mom the same. She was
Speaker 1: so beautiful everybody to this day, she's seventy three, she
Speaker 1: looks like she's in her fifties. She's everyone say she
Speaker 1: would look like Fara Fauce that when she'd come into school. Um,
Speaker 1: she was so powerful on behalf of us, my sister
Speaker 1: and myself, and like and fight for us and loyal,
Speaker 1: and yet we would see are look in the mirror
Speaker 1: it herself and take yourself down. Oh this I look fat.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't like the way I look here. And
Speaker 1: and so I realized as a parent that no matter
Speaker 1: what you have to be an example, you can't because
Speaker 1: the kids are watching what you do, and no matter
Speaker 1: how much you said you're beautiful girls and you're you're talented,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. I inhabited the part of her that
Speaker 1: saw a beautiful woman in the mirror and then was
Speaker 1: disparaging to herself. So it's important as parents that we
Speaker 1: start of fake fake it till you make it. My motto,
Speaker 1: fake until you make it. Well, if you're faking it
Speaker 1: til you make it, you're doing a damn good job,
Speaker 1: because you're amazing. You're amazing. I love your voice. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody knows your voice, probably because of Frozen, but I
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of hearing your voice for the first
Speaker 1: time in Wicked, and then of course bought the album
Speaker 1: and then you know, followed you. And there is a
Speaker 1: quality to your voice that is otherworldly. Oh thanks, like
Speaker 1: a power that blows me away. Oh thank you, so
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing your music with us all these years. Delilah,
Speaker 1: did you have anything that you wanted to say or ask?
Speaker 1: You're sitting here so nicely. In the movie Frozen, did
Speaker 1: Hans actually wanted to marry Anna just to take over Aaron? Now?
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Was that upsetting for you.
Speaker 1: Was that upsetting that ending? Yeah? I didn't like he
Speaker 1: wanted to take over your castle. Yeah, he was so deceiving,
Speaker 1: wasn't he? H? I know, And it was a surprise
Speaker 1: because we all believed he really loved her, right. I
Speaker 1: tend to think that characters are complicated, and maybe he
Speaker 1: thought she was really wonderful, but he also wanted the
Speaker 1: power of taking over the castle. So I think it's
Speaker 1: left up to our interpretation. And is Anna, you're like
Speaker 1: the character who plays her? Is she your actual sister?
Speaker 1: Kristin Bell, she feels like a sister. No, she's she's
Speaker 1: my friend and she's very much like Anna, and we
Speaker 1: treat each other like sisters. But I actually have a
Speaker 1: younger sister, my real sister. Her name is Kara. She's
Speaker 1: three years younger than me, and we're very similar in
Speaker 1: that way. She's she's more like Anna, and she's always
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like also making all these songs
Speaker 1: and everybody paying attention to me and telling me I'm magical.
Speaker 1: And she's my younger sisters, more quiet, she's smarter than me,
Speaker 1: she's more responsible than me, and she's a writer, and
Speaker 1: so she's had to learn growing up She took her
Speaker 1: a long time to figure out what she wanted to
Speaker 1: do because I was always singing and you know, taking
Speaker 1: the energy out of the room. And now she's this
Speaker 1: beautiful writer and we've written this children's book together that
Speaker 1: hopefully I'll come on the show one day and like
Speaker 1: a year and talk to you about I'll send it
Speaker 1: to you. But yes, and my true real sister, her
Speaker 1: name is Kara, and we're very very close. So here's
Speaker 1: a question with your true real sister. If anybody had
Speaker 1: ever put a wall between you and said you couldn't
Speaker 1: go out that door or she couldn't come in the door,
Speaker 1: I guess uh also had the choice to go out,
Speaker 1: but she was afraid of her power. Would that wall
Speaker 1: have ever kept you from your sister, from your family? No,
Speaker 1: unless I really thought I could hurt her, which is
Speaker 1: what I think Elsa believed. She really was told by
Speaker 1: her parents that she could hurt I mean, she did
Speaker 1: hurt her sister when they were a little you know,
Speaker 1: she knocked on the ground, so she was just terrified
Speaker 1: of really wounding the people around her. So, um, No,
Speaker 1: nothing could keep me from being with my sister, unless
Speaker 1: for some reason I thought that that actual touch was
Speaker 1: going to really hurt her. That's so sad when you
Speaker 1: think of it. Like I know, I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody yesterday when I was prepared ring for this interview,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I really don't like that
Speaker 1: story at all because I just think that it's it's cruel,
Speaker 1: it's it's child abuse to have two sisters living in
Speaker 1: the same house with the wall between them and no contact. Horrible. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like some sort of weird hell to be in.
Speaker 1: I know, But what about COVID. We've been locking our
Speaker 1: family members in other rooms in the house we put in.
Speaker 1: You agree with me? Lui? That's my dog? What kind
Speaker 1: of dog? He's an Italian water dog. He looks kind
Speaker 1: of boodally. But they're called Legoto Romagnolo's. That's the pretentious name.
Speaker 1: They they're bred to find truffles and tuscany. It's like
Speaker 1: really tough stuff. And does he ever go truffle hunting?
Speaker 1: He digs a lot, Yeah, he did. Sometimes. I think
Speaker 1: we could get truffles and put him in the ground
Speaker 1: for him, just just because he's always looking digging for something,
Speaker 1: for anything. Okay, so folks can find Cinderella. It is
Speaker 1: in some theaters. It is available on Amazon. You're working
Speaker 1: on a children's book. What else can they look forward
Speaker 1: to enjoying you in? Anything else in the works. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm working on some new musicals, a couple of things
Speaker 1: that are in their nation stages. UM, but that's my
Speaker 1: happy place. I love to be involved in the early
Speaker 1: stages and um work with new young composers and writers.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, just sohe an album. I'm working onto
Speaker 1: music and oh yeah and album and written a dozen
Speaker 1: or so songs. You know, I just have the songs
Speaker 1: the video to dream Girl, that's the song in the movie.
Speaker 1: I did a remix with Nile Rogers and it's really
Speaker 1: great and I'm excited for everybody to see that that
Speaker 1: will come out with the soundtrack. And we did Enchanted.
Speaker 1: We finished that up and I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying. I like when there's I see nothing in
Speaker 1: the calendar for a minute, and it means I just
Speaker 1: drive Walker to school in the morning, and I pick
Speaker 1: him up from school, and I'm around for homework, and
Speaker 1: you know, I can order in food because I had
Speaker 1: not a cook, but at least I can send you
Speaker 1: some sour dough, please please. We went when we were
Speaker 1: in Ireland. Sour dough was all the age, yummy sour dough.
Speaker 1: I make the sour do and then we slice it
Speaker 1: and butter it and then pan fry it like a
Speaker 1: steak and then put parmesan cheese or you know, some
Speaker 1: kind of hard cheese on top. Hey, look, I'm you know, Dolilla.
Speaker 1: I know your your mommy. Maybe she forgot a form today,
Speaker 1: but I'm really um relieved and happy that whatever mistake
Speaker 1: she made this morning, um, happened so that we could
Speaker 1: see each other and get to meet each other, you know,
Speaker 1: and parents, We just we have to remember a lot
Speaker 1: of things these days. So just give her a right, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. Yes, Um, me and my niece
Speaker 1: we did a play about Frozen. We went in the
Speaker 1: backyard for barbecue, and um, Delilah and my granddaughter performed
Speaker 1: songs from Frozen and I had made costumes for them.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite moment, Talila? Probably love as an
Speaker 1: open door. Yeah. I was Anna and she was herbar
Speaker 1: was Elsa. And did you did everyone applaud? How did
Speaker 1: that feel? I felt nice? Oh good? Right? Did you
Speaker 1: get nervous or no? Yeah? Yeah, what do you do
Speaker 1: when you're nervous? She giggles, She giggles, Yeah, you pushed
Speaker 1: through and you did it. Yeah, well, I wish I
Speaker 1: was there. You send me a video. I can send
Speaker 1: you the video. We have the video. I was so
Speaker 1: proud of him because a lot of people have the
Speaker 1: desire in their heart to, you know, to step up
Speaker 1: and do something, and then they let fear. When I
Speaker 1: was saying, she pushed through her nerves and she did,
Speaker 1: she did. Aren't you so proud of yourself after that? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was really proud of her. I still get nervous
Speaker 1: every time I have to get up and sing what
Speaker 1: happens to you when you get nervous? I was at
Speaker 1: the pea. Yeah, I have to pee and many times,
Speaker 1: and then, um, I start to freak out that I'm
Speaker 1: going to forget the lyrics. So then I sell myself.
Speaker 1: Stop it. Just sing the song to your son. Sing
Speaker 1: the song or your son. That's all that matters. Um.
Speaker 1: So I do think like that. Sometimes I do mess
Speaker 1: up and forget the lyrics and then I'm I tell everyone, oh,
Speaker 1: I just messed up, and I'm going to take that
Speaker 1: back and start again. And I find that the audience
Speaker 1: really likes that to see that you're human infallible. So
Speaker 1: I've learned that to lean into my mistakes. But that
Speaker 1: takes a minute to to trust and it's scary. But yeah,
Speaker 1: what else I get dry mouths sometimes? Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for this time, Thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to have a Cinderella party. Oh great, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a nice big Streen Sammy videos of the
Speaker 1: Frozen play. Okay, I will send that to you. Thank
Speaker 1: you all right, Well, love you guys, Thank you, Love you, Douglas. Bye.
Speaker 1: There are talented people, and then there are talented people.
Speaker 1: The incredible, beautiful Adina Menzel is one of the latter.
Speaker 1: She's gorgeous. She can sing, she can act, she can write,
Speaker 1: she can dance, she can spread love and light enjoy
Speaker 1: the people, even when she takes on the role of
Speaker 1: an evil old crone. If that's not talent, I don't
Speaker 1: know what is. I'm so thrilled. She gave us so
Speaker 1: much of her time today and we were able to
Speaker 1: talk about her work as a writer, a singer, and actress,
Speaker 1: her work as a mama bear, as a partner, as
Speaker 1: a sister, as a friend. She's a phenomenal entertainer and
Speaker 1: even more, an inspiring role model. Just ask my daughter,
Speaker 1: Delila Jr. Who truly adores her. Cinderella is out now
Speaker 1: in theaters and on Amazon Prime Video. Doesn't that sound
Speaker 1: like a great way to spend a Friday night with
Speaker 1: your family after a long week of work in school.
Speaker 1: And if you're looking for some amaze in Christmas music
Speaker 1: for the upcoming holidays, pick up or download her sensational
Speaker 1: album Christmas A Season of Wishes to add to your playlist.
Speaker 1: That's a rap on this fairy tale episode of Love Someone,
Speaker 1: but never fear. I'll be back in two weeks with
Speaker 1: another fabulous episode featuring another fabulous guest. Until then, enjoy
Speaker 1: what is left of our autumn sunshine. Try to embrace
Speaker 1: the changes in the weather, the changes in the season,
Speaker 1: and as hard as it is, whatever changes might be
Speaker 1: happening in your own life. That's the hard one to embrace,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Thank you for joining me. Let's do it
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