AVALANCHE is, well, a strong word. Snowball is, too. Yet both powerful weather wonders — one instantly explosive, one steadily expansive — describe the storm that blanketed the world when, six years ago, Disney’s animated musical Frozen made landfall. Two Oscars, two Grammys, two short films, a Broadway […]
With Frozen 2 now playing in theaters, I recently sat down with Idina Menzel to talk about making the highly anticipated sequel. During the wide-ranging conversation, Menzel talked about why making the sequel was a team effort, how the film doesn’t have the typical villain to contend with, […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel’s professional career is busier than ever. She reprises her role as the voice of Elsa in Disney’s “Frozen 2,” and stars in “Uncut Gems,” a drama/comedy, which opens Christmas Day. “Adam Sandler plays a jeweler who gets rappers and athletes all this crazy bling,” […]
The Showstoppers The Frozen Soundtrack 13 Weeks on Billboard 200 In a particularly cold climate? for music sales, Frozen broke virtually every Hollywood rule — no “prince charming” narrative or genre trends — to become the year’s biggest phenomenon. The soundtrack moved more than 3 million copies, making […]
For the first time in her career, Idina Menzel has a clear path of projects laid out ahead, starting with ‘Frozen 2’ — and she plans to keep it that way. In October, Idina Menzel released her latest holiday album, featuring a duet with one of pop’s biggest stars; in […]
As a wedding singer in the 1980s, Idina Menzel came up with a crowd-pleasing formula: trot out a broad range of familiar songs, keep the party moving and the banter light. But the actress, who has since won a Tony Award for “Wicked” on Broadway and starred in […]
Age is just a number, right? And beauty, as we all know, is only skin-deep. The truth of these consoling clichés is severely tested in “Skintight,” Joshua Harmon’s comedy of acute chronological consciousness, which opened on Thursday in a sharply directed production by Daniel Aukin at the Geffen […]
Idina Menzel’s public persona is defined by her starring role in a blockbuster children’s franchise (the “Frozen” movies), a Tony Award-winning performance in Broadway’s “Wicked” and a Christmas album or two, so it’s more than a little jarring to see her show up as Dinah, Adam Sandler’s estranged […]
About seven years ago, actress and singer Idina Menzel walked into a recording booth and started voice work on an original animated musical. It was called Frozen. “I knew when I got the job that it was a big milestone for me and my career just because it […]
The 1988 Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey tearjerker Beaches is getting a fresh update to 2017 with Idina Menzel and Nia Long playing the role of the two best friends – CC Bloom and Hillary Whitney respectively. Moving from the East Coast to California for the remake, Beaches […]
Uncut Gems is different than anything Idina Menzel has previously done, and that is why the singer/actress, who is best known for her roles on Broadway in Wicked and both Frozen movies, was pleased that brothers Benny and Josh Safdie were interested in her for the non-singing role […]
Idina Menzel currently has two hit movies in theaters. She’s reprising her role as Princess Elsa in the family-friendly “Frozen II” and starring opposite Adam Sandler in the gritty dramedy “Uncut Gems,” playing his exasperated wife. She seized the chance to work with Sandler and directors Benny and […]
Kristin Chenoweth remembers the day Ariana Grande came to see the original Broadway production of “Wicked.” Adam Lambert fondly recalls playing the role of Fiyero in the touring production before “American Idol” made him a star. Original cast members and first-wave fans of the smash Broadway musical “Wicked” […]
The Broadway star will return to the NYC stage Monday to host a karaoke benefit concert. Balancing her new “Undercover Boss” persona, Helen Gold, and rehearsals for Off-Broadway’s “Skintight,” Tony-winner Idina Menzel still manages to give back to her New York roots. The Broadway star will return to […]
When Stephen Schwartz’s iconic Broadway musical Wicked first found it’s home at the Gershwin Theatre in 2003, success was not guaranteed. The musical had a particularly large budget for a new Broadway show ($14 million), and initially received mixed reviews from critics, most notably from The New York […]