After joining up with her movie friends Idina Menzel and Josh Gad on Friday (Aug. 14) to share news of an upcoming third installment of the Disney blockbuster Frozen franchise, Kristen Bell went out to the ballgame.
According to a video posted by the entertainment-forward baseball team, Bell made a surprise appearance on Saturday (Aug. 15) at a Savannah Bananas game against the Indianapolis Clowns to sing a medley of beloved Broadway hits and a Frozen favorite with Broadway star and Bananas pitcher Derek Klena (Jagged Little Pill, Dogfight).
In it, Bell, wearing a headset mic and rocking a custom Bananas jersey with leopard print cargo pants, worked her way down the steps toward the field as she sang the Frozen classic “For the First Time in Forever,” slapping hands with kids as everyone around her pulled out their phones to record the unexpected moment from the team that lives to surprise. Shaking her hips and smiling, Bell grabbed two fans’ hands and sang the iconic line, “I don’t know if I’m elated or gassy/ But I’m somewhere in that zone,” before firmly placing the women’s hands on her chest.
Just when she wondered if she might meet, “the one,” Klena — dressed in his Bananas yellow sleeveless uniform — jumped into the fray, singing the Wicked anthem “Dancing Through Life.” The 34-year-old Broadway veteran joined the Bananas in December and has been on their Banana Ball World Tour this year.
His slick dance moves were copied by his teammates, who also showed off their bat-balancing and stilt-walking expertise as the singer moved across the field on his way to meet Bell, who he promptly pulled in for a spin and a dip. They parted ways briefly before Klena began a slow walk back toward the actress singing the Bill Medley part of the Dirty Dancing theme song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life).” Bell soon joined in, taking on the Jennifer Warnes bits from the Oscar-winning, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 1987 pop classic.
The game break ended with Bell, of course, running at Klena, who executed a perfect lift as they closed the medley holding hands and reprising the first two songs. The Bananas captioned their post: “The mashup we never knew we needed.”
The day before, Bell, Menzel and Gad reunited on stage at the D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, Calif. to tease Frozen 3, which is due out on Nov. 24, 2027. Bell and Menzel, who voice, respectively, sisters Anna and Elsa, treated fans at the Honda Center to performances of “Frozen Heart,” while Gad performed the new Olaf love song “Ooooh, Samantha.”
Bell also revealed that Anna will finally marry her “mountain man” Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan Groff), while Menzel teased that “love is in the air for everyone.” Bell then playfully asked, “Everyone? Even Olaf?”
