Kristin Chenoweth is lastly addressing these rumors concerning her relationship with Depraved costar, Idina Menzel.
“We're so completely different in the way in which we do our course of that after all rumors are going to fly, proper?” Chenoweth, 57, informed The Hollywood Reporter in an interview printed on Monday, November 3, addressing on-line hypothesis that the pair didn't get alongside whereas working collectively on Depraved.
“She and I, solely we all know what we went by means of to get to the place we had been,” she continued.“We might die for one another. So it's like sisters. Are sisters at all times good? So it's household. That's one of the simplest ways I can describe it.”
Rumors rapidly circulated on-line that the 2 ladies didn't get alongside after each had been nominated for Tony Awards for Greatest Efficiency by a Main Actress in 2004. (Menzel walked away the winner.)
Since then, each Menzel and Chenoweth have determined to publicly clear the air concerning their relationship.
“I'd like to talk on this,” Chenoweth informed Vulture in an October 2023 interview of the feud rumors. “After a sure period of time after we opened, my mother was coping with most cancers. I used to be emotional, and I used to be enthusiastic about another issues. To me, there was no manner that I might win a Tony. Sure, it's the 2 women as leads. However it's Elphaba's story. I wanted to take care of that a part of me.”
She continued, “I used to be very emotional. I attempted to push it out, I imply, if solely individuals knew.”
Menzel then chimed in, including, “Sadly, individuals like to do this to ladies. They will't be supportive of each other. It's important to put all this battle in there. We had been drained and very supportive of each other.”
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
The pair had been every forged within the unique Broadway manufacturing of Depraved in 2003. The musical was initially slammed by critics — a response Chenoweth stated was tough to take care of on the time, however one she finally paled compared to what the actress later thought of to be the larger image..
“I knew it after we opened in San Francisco,” she defined to the outlet. “I knew it. I bear in mind speaking to Idina after opening evening in New York. It was a tragic day. She goes, ‘We must always have gotten good opinions.' I am going, ‘No. It doesn't matter. You're the inexperienced woman who flies on the finish of Act 1. I come down in a bubble. We sing ‘For Good.' And the individuals have spoken.'”
Whereas starting manufacturing with constructive opinions would have been good, she stated, the viewers who noticed the efficiency was what mattered — they usually had been glad. “I wished the nice opinions for our present however I knew it wasn't going to matter as a result of I heard the viewers.,” Chenoweth defined.
Although Chenoweth left the manufacturing in April 2004 and Menzel in January 2005, the pair made shock cameos in 2024's movie adaptation of Depraved, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Eviro as Glinda and Elphaba — however they won't be within the follow-up, 2025's Depraved: For Good.
“I don't know if I'm allowed to speak about that,” Chenoweth stated. “I don't assume it hurts to say no, I'm not. I believe we type of did our factor and handed the broom and wand, so to talk. However I can't wait to see it. I type of know quite a bit about it from my woman [Grande], so I simply can't wait.”
Since its debut on Broadway in 2003, Depraved has grow to be the fourth-longest operating musical in historical past, a milestone the play reached in April 2023. On the time, the manufacturing had simply placed on its 7,486th present on the Gershwin Theatre. As of 2025, Depraved has put on 8,522 productions and is fourth behind The Lion King (10,985), Chicago (11,361) and The Phantom of the Opera (13,981).
