Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who was to play her final performance in Wicked Jan. 9, was injured during the Jan. 8 matinee of the hit Stephen Schwartz musical. Shoshana Bean, Menzel’s standby who was slated to officially take over the role of Elphaba beginning Jan. 11, played […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, whose final weekend in the hit musical Wicked was marred by an onstage injury that left her with a broken rib, has posted a letter on her official website. Menzel writes, “So here I am, on my couch, propped up by 12 pillows, […]
Idina Menzel is no stranger to singing the national anthem at high-profile sporting events. She just did it, in fact, at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game this past July. And this is what she learned: There’s a lot of testosterone on that field, especially when you’re standing […]
The Broadway star on the people who inspire her. Kristin Chenoweth I worked with her on Wicked. She played Glinda and I loved watching the precision with which she approached her lines, and how she found the comedy in everything. She taught me what it means to take the […]
Find what Idina Menzel is secretly a fan of! What have you read or seen recently (book, play, film etc…) that moved or surprised you? (Play) “Time Stands Still”, starring Laura Linney and Bryan d’Arcy James What are you listening to right now? Ladybug music, original music created […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel sat down with the press at Joe’s Pub on October 13 to discuss her upcoming national tour and other aspects of her life and career. Menzel will be performing with symphony orchestras around the country, October 28-February 3, beginning with a three-night stint […]
From the Broadway stage to the Billboard charts, this Tony-award-winning star of “Wicked” and “Rent” seems to have done it all. The daughter of a New York pajama salesman and a therapist, Idina Menzel grew up on Long Island, singing at bar mitzvahs and weddings. Such a humble […]
Tony-winning Broadway star Idina Menzel (Wicked) told SCI FI Wire that she appears in Disney’s upcoming fantasy musical film Enchanted—but doesn’t sing. Why? “You’ve got to take that up with somebody else,” Menzel said in an interview while promoting the film. “I was just happy to be part […]
Forget what you know — or what you think you know — about those two powerful forces in the land of Oz, Glinda the Good Witch and her nameless nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the West. In Wicked, the new musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, audience […]
The subject of the work is death at an early age. And in one of the dark dramatic coincidences theater occasionally springs on us, its 35-year-old author died only weeks before its opening. Yet no one who attends Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” the exhilarating, landmark rock opera at the […]