There's still a little bit of "Wicked"-ness in Idina Menzel.
Bless her heart.
The chatty singer, who Wednesday night sang for TV critics and reporters as part of PBS' promotion of an upcoming "Great Performances" presentation "'Chess' in Concert," dished a little between songs -- which, yes, included her "Wicked" showstopper "Defying Gravity" -- about her recent appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors.
Menzel was there to perform "Don't Rain on My Parade" as part of the segment honoring Barbra Streisand, and who couldn't sympathize with her on that one?
But then she discovered that she and husband Taye Diggs were to be seated at Streisand's table afterward.
Worried that Streisand would feel the need to say something nice to her about her performance, she waited nervously. And then waited some more.
Finally, Streisand turned to Menzel and asked if she were the one who'd sung.
She hadn't, she explained, been wearing her glasses.
Things didn't go much more smoothly with another of her idols, Aretha Franklin, after Diggs approached her to gush about his wife's performance.
Unaware that Menzel had changed outfits after her performance, Franklin at first refused to believe that she'd even sung. Finally convinced that the person she'd heard was indeed Menzel, she turned to Diggs and said, "You never told me your wife was a singer."
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