Idina Menzel to Appear on ELLEN, CHELSEA LATELY, 3/5

Broadway veteran Idina Menzel has announced on her official web site that she will be making TV guest appearances in the coming days in support of her upcoming CD and DVD 'Live: Barefoot at the Symphony' (available for PRE-ORDER NOW, releasing March 6).

On Monday, March 5th, Menzel will be appearing on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' and later that day, she will guest on Chelsea Lately, which airs 11:00 pm/ET on E!

Tony-winner Idina Menzel filmed her second PBS special in Toronto on November 17-18 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at Koerner Hall. The concert featured husband Taye Diggs and legendary composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch.

Menzel has a diverse career on stage and in film, television, and music. She recently appeared in the television hit Glee, and is currently on a sold-out tour, performing with leading orchestras around the country. In 2009 Ms. Menzel co-starred with Josh Groban in the concert version of Chess: The Musical, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall and broadcast on PBS. In December 2005 she completed her role as the misunderstood Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked, for which she received a Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award nomination.

She reprised the role in London's West End in September 2006, receiving the Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in Michael John LaChiusa's musical See What I Wanna See, directed by Ted Sperling at The Public Theater, garnering Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations. Other honors included a Tony nomination for her debut performance as Maureen in the original production of Rent, and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance as Kate in Manhattan Theater Club's Off-Broadway original musical, The Wild Party.

For further information, please visit: http://www.idinamenzel.com/