Speaker 1: July, Oh July, How I love your warm evenings. Warm
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Speaker 1: for the days that stresssch out long into the evening
Speaker 1: hours and the lovely, laid back, lazy pace. I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for so much. The ability to step out of the
Speaker 1: studio and into the warm embrace of July or fresh
Speaker 1: air and fresh perspective is no small thing. I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for gratitude, for love, for entertainment, for inspiration. These are
Speaker 1: the things that I want to share with you with you,
Speaker 1: my listeners, and I believe today's episode will help me
Speaker 1: on that mission. Some folks just seem to have it all.
Speaker 1: Today's guest is one of those people. Adina Menzel is
Speaker 1: a Tony Award winning powerhouse. She is, of course, a singer,
Speaker 1: an actress in film and TV, a songwriter, a Broadway star,
Speaker 1: and a philanthropist. She rose to fame as Maureen in
Speaker 1: the popular Broadway musical Rent, and her career took off
Speaker 1: when she won a Tony Award for her role as Alphaba, Alphaba,
Speaker 1: the Wicked Witch of the West, who really wasn't wicked
Speaker 1: at all in the smash music Wicked. Her voice can
Speaker 1: be heard, of course, as Elsa in Disney's Award winning
Speaker 1: Frozen and its song that my kids and my grandkids
Speaker 1: sing every day, Let It Go, voiced by aDNA, It
Speaker 1: became an instant international phenomenon, winning the Oscar for Best
Speaker 1: Original Song. It's a song that you hear everywhere, everywhere
Speaker 1: you go, still to this day. In addition to her
Speaker 1: contribution to multiple cast albums, her prolific recording career includes
Speaker 1: a catalog of successful solo albums Still I can't be
Speaker 1: still Here I stand a Dina, and you know how
Speaker 1: we love Christmas Here at the Delilah Show, Christmas a
Speaker 1: Season of Love. We've played that a lot last year.
Speaker 1: Adena is joining us today to tell us about her
Speaker 1: new album, Drama Queen, and I already know just from
Speaker 1: the title that it's material that's going to speak to
Speaker 1: my heart. I can't wait to get dramatic with a
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Speaker 1: how are you, Adina Menzel, Welcome to love someone with Delilah.
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to you in what seems like for
Speaker 1: but because you know I have so many children and grandchildren,
Speaker 1: I hear you every day.
Speaker 2: I know it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing because I love you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You've got little ones do they do they watch you? O, he's.
Speaker 2: Just thirtyen, he's thirteen going on fourteen. He wants nothing
Speaker 2: to do with me. That's not true. No, what I
Speaker 2: did a I did a show the other night, and
Speaker 2: I forced him to come because I thought it would
Speaker 2: be really cool for him to see me do this
Speaker 2: particular music for the first time. And he came up
Speaker 2: to me after and he was very emotional. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm very emotional, mom, and he hugged me in front
Speaker 2: of a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, yeah for a thirteen almost fourteen year old boy,
Speaker 1: that's huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was that was really nice. But most
Speaker 2: of the time he wants nothing to do with me.
Speaker 2: He's at a math final right now, and well, let's
Speaker 2: just send him pauseitive energy because it's seventh grade. You know,
Speaker 2: how is this boring for your listeners, this kind of
Speaker 2: mommy stuff.
Speaker 1: We're all moms or grandmoms at this point in the game.
Speaker 2: So he's, uh, yeah, he's at he's at a math final,
Speaker 2: and I was just handing him positive energy because you know,
Speaker 2: seventh grade is such a transition from elementary school, and
Speaker 2: like he didn't have tests in the elementary school that
Speaker 2: he was at So it's just been crazy this for him,
Speaker 2: and the workload. More than the workload, the executive functioning
Speaker 2: for a young boy, you know, is a whole new thing. Anyway,
Speaker 2: let's talk about something else.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I was just going to say, my daughter,
Speaker 1: who is setting in on this Delilah Junior. He's going
Speaker 1: into high school next year. So she's going from a
Speaker 1: school of three hundred students to a school of almost
Speaker 1: a thousand students.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's overwhelming. It is, Yeah, so overwhelming. Walker's in
Speaker 2: the school right now that his school, the junior high
Speaker 2: and the high school in the same school, So he's
Speaker 2: got these huge kids walking around. You know. The good
Speaker 2: thing is that they're really sweet and they act like
Speaker 2: big sisters and brothers, and so it's cool. Back in
Speaker 2: my day, I would have been like bullied in harass,
Speaker 2: and I remember that these girls would throw spitballs in
Speaker 2: my hair down the locker room. Was afraid to go,
Speaker 2: I mean down the hall, and I was afraid to
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Okay, now where do you think How do you think
Speaker 1: they feel now when you know you're winning every award
Speaker 1: in the world and you have an album that's coming out,
Speaker 1: do you think they're like, dang, we probably should have
Speaker 1: hung out with her instead of throwing spitballs in her hair.
Speaker 2: Now most of them have come to my shows and
Speaker 2: stuff after and acted like we were best friends. And
Speaker 2: one girl that's never the one, the worst one. It's
Speaker 2: probably really sweet now and everything, but in my head,
Speaker 2: she'll never redeem herself, you know, And I've never seen
Speaker 2: She's the only one I've never seen since, and she
Speaker 2: was the queen of the bullies. Yeah, she was so
Speaker 2: mean to me. So maybe she really did have a thing,
Speaker 2: or maybe she doesn't even remember, you know. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1: Do you go to class reunions, do you go back
Speaker 1: to your high school? Do you do those down memory
Speaker 1: lane trips?
Speaker 2: I would have, but I haven't. Every time there is one,
Speaker 2: I had a show or something, so I haven't. But
Speaker 2: I see certain people a lot, Like I said, the
Speaker 2: doing theater and concerts and going on tour. You know,
Speaker 2: people come and they ask the tickets and they come backstage,
Speaker 2: and so I can. I've seen a lot of people
Speaker 2: through that that it's actually been really nice too. And
Speaker 2: then I sort of re establish a relationship with some
Speaker 2: of them. Which has been really cool.
Speaker 1: I've known Michael Bubla since he was a teenager, like twelve,
Speaker 1: do you have yeah? And he says, got to I
Speaker 1: was such a nerd when I was a kid, you know.
Speaker 1: I think he was twenty the first time I had
Speaker 1: a chance to meet him. Same with Josh grob And
Speaker 1: I met him when he was a teenager. And I
Speaker 1: always wonder because you know, they've shared being bold lead
Speaker 1: or made fun of or you know, for being music geeks.
Speaker 1: I always wonder, like, do people come to your shows
Speaker 1: and say, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, or like
Speaker 1: in your case, they pretend they knew you, they were
Speaker 1: friends with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they just they don't say they're sorry.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is the first time I met you,
Speaker 1: I was in love with you. I had seen you
Speaker 1: in Chicago as Alphaba, and I was in love with
Speaker 1: you from the first note you sang the first time
Speaker 1: you appeared on the stage in your green and I
Speaker 1: have loved you ever since.
Speaker 2: So thank you. That was a special time for me.
Speaker 2: That show So yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I loved you so much as Alphaba. I have seen
Speaker 1: the show I saw you. I saw it with you twice,
Speaker 1: but I've seen the show eight times.
Speaker 2: Now, wow, well, you probably take the girls to see it.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I take the girls to see it. I take my
Speaker 1: grandkids now to see it. And oh my gosh, it's
Speaker 1: just such a such a beautiful story of true friendship.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: People's like, isn't it a love story? I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a love story, but.
Speaker 2: Not not that, do you think exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've been busy now, you haven't slowed down.
Speaker 1: You've you've got a new album out. And Delilah Junior
Speaker 1: and I were talking before the interviews. She said, talk
Speaker 1: to her about Enchanted. Did she like being the mean
Speaker 1: step mom?
Speaker 2: You mean? And Cinderella? I was the mean step mosment
Speaker 2: and I came back as the princess that I mean,
Speaker 2: as the queen that I went up into the animated
Speaker 2: world at the end of Enchanted one and then we
Speaker 2: come back and we revisit James Martin and I and
Speaker 2: then yeah, Cinderella.
Speaker 1: Was the Cinderella that was the one I was thinking
Speaker 1: toy and.
Speaker 2: It was that was so much fun. Camilla cou it
Speaker 2: was a gorgeous person inside it out, and yeah, so
Speaker 2: it was all fun. I spent during COVID once they
Speaker 2: started to get to figure out production for things. I
Speaker 2: spent my life in like corsets around and enchanted, you know,
Speaker 2: and well like we went there, then they'd shut down.
Speaker 2: We'd come home and get back with my pj's and
Speaker 2: do my day coupage and then hang out with my
Speaker 2: son in virtual school. And then they'd say, oh, we're
Speaker 2: back up for a month. So I go back and
Speaker 2: try to fit my ass into these coursets again. My
Speaker 2: boobs got bigger because I put on weight. Then they'd
Speaker 2: be like spilling out of the course and then they
Speaker 2: have to add you know. Anyway, that was a lot
Speaker 2: of my COVID, But.
Speaker 1: I have you lost the because you look fabulous. Everybody
Speaker 1: called it the COVID fifteen, and my world it was
Speaker 1: the COVID forty exactly because sourdough. Because my girlfriend Marta
Speaker 1: like a year before COVID hits started talking sourdough and
Speaker 1: she taught a sourdough class and sourdough, Hello.
Speaker 2: Cowardough class is so funny. Yeah, my husband started baking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was his destress. Well, he kept working during COVID
Speaker 2: because he works in an impatient facility for chemical dependency
Speaker 2: and mental illness. So he was still going every day.
Speaker 2: But so then he came home and he started baking
Speaker 2: as his sort of way to decompress.
Speaker 1: But so he and I have a have an extra
Speaker 1: pound or two. Are you saying that we found?
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't because he doesn't gain a freaking pound.
Speaker 1: Ever, I has to run like miles, you know. It
Speaker 1: just makes me And yeah, my husband can. He's he's
Speaker 1: almost seventy. He can wear his green beret uniform from
Speaker 1: when he was in his early twenties.
Speaker 2: Amazing, what what? I not fair? Not fair? Anyway, I've
Speaker 2: been I have been getting working out so that I
Speaker 2: can get these great disco kind of inspired jumpsuits and
Speaker 2: move around the stage and I have dancers now, and
Speaker 2: I've been having the best time with this new album
Speaker 2: because during COVID, actually I had this epiphany that I
Speaker 2: didn't want to I wanted to do music where people
Speaker 2: could like really get up and move and dance and
Speaker 2: have a different experience with me where they don't have
Speaker 2: to sit in their seats and like feel like their
Speaker 2: behave theater goers. Because I had done some clubs late
Speaker 2: at night, in the middle of the night in London
Speaker 2: when I was there doing press for something, and I'd
Speaker 2: show up at clubs at like one in the morning
Speaker 2: and and the crowd was like pushed up against the
Speaker 2: stage and the energy was amazing, and so I was
Speaker 2: I really was like excited to make music like that.
Speaker 2: And I thought, well, what kind of music really showcases
Speaker 2: a big voice? But still, you know, grew and I
Speaker 2: thought of all the people I loved, that, all the
Speaker 2: women I loved, especially that did disco albums and dance albums.
Speaker 2: So I've been able to, you know, not compromise my
Speaker 2: big melodies and big singing and but also do something
Speaker 2: that felt really good that I felt like was an
Speaker 2: organic transition but also would be something a little unexpected.
Speaker 1: Because you're younger than me, you kind of missed out
Speaker 1: on the jump suits. Yeah, you were in onesies when
Speaker 1: I was in jumpsuits.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 1: It is true. It is true. You were Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: not onesies, but you were probably in the parachute pants
Speaker 1: with matching jacket teal and pink. Yeah, did you have
Speaker 1: the teal in pink matching jacket and yeah, but a.
Speaker 2: Lot of fluorescent and my hair was like this, like
Speaker 2: like this with hairspray, like I think that, yeah, so
Speaker 2: is mine. So yeah, but yeah, I named the album
Speaker 2: Drama Queen one because, as your daughter knows, I played
Speaker 2: queens a lot of queens in my career for some reason.
Speaker 2: Two because I sometimes think I'm a queen in my
Speaker 2: own mind, but also because I feel like I wanted
Speaker 2: to reclaim the term a little bit. You know, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like reclaiming the term diva. And you know,
Speaker 2: a drama queen in my case is someone that has
Speaker 2: lots of big emotional you know, big feelings, bold feelings,
Speaker 2: passionate feelings.
Speaker 1: I tried the same with broad to me, when you're abroad,
Speaker 1: that's a compliment.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly well, that's yeah, that's my East Coast, you know,
Speaker 2: Long Island. Yeah, exactly so. And then I really feel
Speaker 2: like it it encompass a lot of the themes that
Speaker 2: have been sort of you know, a pattern in my
Speaker 2: life and in the projects I've been a part of
Speaker 2: where we really, you know, especially as women, embrace, you know,
Speaker 2: this real fire that we have in us and not
Speaker 2: trying to shy away from that, and so a lot
Speaker 2: of the songs have to do with that. I'm really
Speaker 2: glad that it coincides with Pride. So I'm going out
Speaker 2: and hitting a lot of the Pride festivals and I've
Speaker 2: just been having the best time with it. I'm really
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of it too.
Speaker 1: Now do you have do you have any many disco
Speaker 1: skirts that you can twirl in?
Speaker 2: Only if I wear like two pairs of tights because
Speaker 2: I don't feel like my legs are I feel like
Speaker 2: my legs are too flabby for the mini minis.
Speaker 1: I met Cher backstage in one of her outfits and
Speaker 1: she was in her seventies at the time, I think,
Speaker 1: and damn she was rocking it. I'm like, you, you
Speaker 1: are my goal.
Speaker 2: You are my goal, one of my inspirations for the
Speaker 2: album because she came out with members, she came out
Speaker 2: and Believe and that whole dance album. Oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: rocking it.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't Where can we find out a Dina
Speaker 1: about your tour?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's mostly this summer, hitting a lot of the festivals.
Speaker 2: I guess you can go on my website, you can
Speaker 2: check out I'm going to be in DC at Pride, Provincetown,
Speaker 2: No Providence, Rhode Island, Saint Petersburg, Saint Louis. Then I'm
Speaker 2: going to go to London and hit a bunch of
Speaker 2: cities in New Europe, which I'm really excited about, and
Speaker 2: then we'll see about a tour and a couple months.
Speaker 2: You know as well, you could just check out on
Speaker 2: my website or my socials, I guess. So I'm figuring
Speaker 2: out how can I do Let it Go and find
Speaker 2: gravity as dance tunes, you know as well, give them
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: Good oh yeah, you know. Oh, and let it Go
Speaker 1: as a dance tune could become an anthem of a
Speaker 1: whole different nature.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: I would play that song on my show for women
Speaker 1: who need to walk away from destructive marriages or destructive relationships.
Speaker 1: I have played let It Go.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks of it as a kid's song or a
Speaker 1: Disney song, but really it's kind of an anthem.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is an anthem.
Speaker 1: Throw a beat in there and flash some lights and
Speaker 1: we'll be dancing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let your fire out, you know, don't withhold
Speaker 2: your talents or what makes you special for anybody.
Speaker 1: You know, or your ice in that case, let your.
Speaker 2: Eyes exactly, and don't wear your gloves to keep your
Speaker 2: icicles from coming out of your you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take those damn gloves off. Adina Menzella is sharing
Speaker 1: some time and some love with us today. I have
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Speaker 1: the day I met you. I've been impressed by your
Speaker 1: grace and your kindness to everyone and your honesty.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, for better or for worse,
Speaker 2: that's my deal. You know. Sometimes I get myself in trouble,
Speaker 2: put my foot in my mouth, or you know, when
Speaker 2: you're really honest, you allow people to see your weaknesses
Speaker 2: and you got to be careful there, you know. But
Speaker 2: I think the vulnerability is all of our strengths, you know,
Speaker 2: it's what makes us human, and the fact that we
Speaker 2: can make mistakes. It's just more interesting, you know, than
Speaker 2: being perfect. So that's the way I tumut myself when
Speaker 2: I feel like shit.
Speaker 1: You know, have you ever met anybody whose life appeared perfect?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Or that I thought was perfect, Yeah, like
Speaker 2: three kids, skinny as can be, gorgeous, dresser, doctor, saving
Speaker 2: lives doing you know, and then found out, you know,
Speaker 2: marriage is a mess and just a bunch of things.
Speaker 2: So if you never know what people are experiencing. So
Speaker 2: I try to think about that when I show up
Speaker 2: to school.
Speaker 1: I think people whose lives appear perfect are a better
Speaker 1: actor than you, you know what I mean. I think
Speaker 1: they're acting so hard and working so hard to manage
Speaker 1: other people's perceptions of them. I don't know how old
Speaker 1: I was when I gave myself permission to not give
Speaker 1: a damn what somebody else thought about me. Their opinion
Speaker 1: to me is none of my business. Number one and
Speaker 1: number two, I don't have the time or energy to
Speaker 1: waste one second trying to impress you. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to be me.
Speaker 2: I on the other hand, I mean, I know I'm successful,
Speaker 2: but I do want to impress people. I still want
Speaker 2: people to like what I do. It's still hard for
Speaker 2: me to have critics come to my play and give.
Speaker 1: Me But you got to know at this stage in
Speaker 1: the game that you have a voice of an angel,
Speaker 1: powerful angel, a warring angel. You know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the ten foot tall angels that are blazing.
Speaker 2: A little cherub.
Speaker 1: You're not a little cherub. But I hope that I
Speaker 1: hope that you are able to receive the truth of
Speaker 1: your gifting. Thank you, and then forget them where the
Speaker 1: clunky heels were the platform shoes and have some fun.
Speaker 2: A little shoulder, yeah, show a lot of shoulder. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had I hijacked my Halloween party eleven years ago
Speaker 1: and got married.
Speaker 2: What's that mean?
Speaker 1: Like We didn't tell anybody we eloped. We eloped at
Speaker 1: our Halloween party. We didn't tell anybody.
Speaker 2: Sparing when you got married.
Speaker 1: Well, I ordered a dress offline and I didn't have time.
Speaker 1: It came like the day before. I didn't have time
Speaker 1: to try it on beforehand, and so I pop my
Speaker 1: dress on and everything was kind of popping out. Spillage.
Speaker 1: There was spillage. Yeah, we didn't have because we didn't
Speaker 1: tell anybody we were doing it. We didn't have a
Speaker 1: professional photographer or anybody there. But some folks, you know,
Speaker 1: snap pictures with their friends or whatnot. And I have
Speaker 1: a couple of those pictures and I'm like, WHOA, I
Speaker 1: should have tried that dress on before.
Speaker 2: I got married. In my backyard too, to my husband
Speaker 2: that I'm with now. And it was great. Although our
Speaker 2: neighbors new neighbors moved in, they tried to report us
Speaker 2: and everything. So then we tried to kiss their butt
Speaker 2: and like bring them champagne and because we were doing
Speaker 2: renovations in the backyards, and then they were like annoyed,
Speaker 2: so we went over. We invited them, you know, but
Speaker 2: it was so stressful because I felt like, we're just
Speaker 2: we're gonna have music we're gonna enjoy just you know,
Speaker 2: it's just one time. I'm not like, you know, they
Speaker 2: think they automatically think if you're in the business, that
Speaker 2: you're gonna have crazy rock and roll parties. Little do
Speaker 2: they know all I do is binge watch and sit
Speaker 2: on my couch. You know. You know it's funny the
Speaker 2: golden I went back and I realized they're kind of
Speaker 2: I always thought they were older women, Like it's like
Speaker 2: like older, and they're I think they're my age now
Speaker 2: living but like my age living with my best friends
Speaker 2: down in a retirement. I don't know, it's just I
Speaker 2: can't understand what was going on there with the casting.
Speaker 2: But I think I just I have distorted and a
Speaker 2: distorted idea of how old I am now.
Speaker 1: I think the truth is, uh, we are very different
Speaker 1: at this age than our parents or our grandparents were
Speaker 1: at this age.
Speaker 2: Well, they had kids so early and so yeah, and.
Speaker 1: They loved hard. I mean my grandparents. My sister is
Speaker 1: the historian in our family, and she was telling me
Speaker 1: how for years my grandparents were migrant workers. They would
Speaker 1: they lived in Arkansas, but they would come out to
Speaker 1: the West Coast in the summer and work in strawberries
Speaker 1: or picking beans or.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, my grandpa and Max used to brag that
Speaker 2: he would do signs and had gold leaf pint to it.
Speaker 2: That's went made it's special. But he h yeah, he
Speaker 2: was a sign painter. And he used to teach me
Speaker 2: how to do lettering a lot. So I'm good at
Speaker 2: like doing bubble letters and cursor and calligraphy and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Because of him.
Speaker 1: I miss beautiful sign work. I missed that was an
Speaker 1: art form. Yeah, especially like on the sides of buildings
Speaker 1: when they would do a brick building and do the
Speaker 1: signs on the brick building. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: And then my dad's old pajamas, So.
Speaker 1: Was a pajama sel. Did he make the pajamas? Did
Speaker 1: he design the pajamas?
Speaker 2: Salesman? So he'd go to J. C. Penny and hope
Speaker 2: to get like, you know, a million pairs of bede
Speaker 2: pajamas sold. And he still says to this day, the woman,
Speaker 2: the buyer, you know, put me through college. And he
Speaker 2: would bring all of his buyers to all of my shows,
Speaker 2: that was the thing. So he'd see my shows like
Speaker 2: fifty times. I think he saw wrench and wicked about
Speaker 2: fifty times or something. But because that was a nice
Speaker 2: night out to take them, you know, and schmoozze, maybe
Speaker 2: get a good order. But I had lots of beautiful
Speaker 2: pajamas and nightgowns.
Speaker 1: Aidina, thank you for spending time with us today. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Have a beautiful summer, have a beautiful rest of your summer,
Speaker 1: and hopefully I will see you soon. Love you guys,
Speaker 1: Love you Byhan bye. Adina Menzel brings her electrifying vocal
Speaker 1: chops to high energy electro dance pop anthems on her
Speaker 1: latest album, Drama Queen, with funky grooves and a disco
Speaker 1: infuse vibe. It's an invitation to throw off the shackles
Speaker 1: of expectation, embrace your inner Drama Queen, join her in
Speaker 1: the spotlight, and move to the dance floor. Put on
Speaker 1: some roller skates if you want a disco roller skate.
Speaker 1: It's a fun, fresh new album that brings the drama
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. The full album will be
Speaker 1: available next month in August, and the single Move is
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