Idina Menzel flying into SF

A Tony Award-winner for Wicked (and we all know it isn't easy being green), Idina Menzel is bringing her concert tour to the Bay Area.The former Rent star, who just released a major label album called I Stand, will play the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre on Aug. 14.Though touring to support her new disc, Menzel (who appeared on big screens, but did not sing in Disney's Enchanted), will not disappoint fans who want to hear her sing some of her famous show tunes. As Menzel told Playbill.com: "It's not such a hard stretch because the shows I've been in are contemporary. I take them out of their context and unplug them a little bit and strip them down and put them more into the context of my show. They seem to work really well, and they're not changed so much that die-hard theatre fans would be disappointed, I don't think. I feel like I'm getting a good response. So that's really nice for me, to kind of join all my worlds together, and it doesn't feel like it's so erratic. It feels cohesive, and it feels like all one artist."For information visit www.idinamenzel.com.