The musical theater star is originating a role in, and was deeply involved in the creation of ‘Redwood’ — which could potentially bring her back to Broadway. “Ever since Rent, I have made it a priority to originate roles and shine a light on new work,” Idina Menzel […]
The animated Frozen will show winter in all its chilled beauty when it hits theaters this Thanksgiving. After all, the tale is based loosely on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, told with a modern twist and in a Nordic environment featuring many winter wonderlands. “It’s just the […]
Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, and more of the cast and creative team reflect on the birth of an unlikely modern Disney classic. About 10 years ago, Josh Gad wanted to buy his daughter an Elsa dress. It shouldn’t have been difficult. Frozen, […]
When asked where she’d like to meet for lunch, Idina Menzel wastes no time choosing Union Square Cafe in Manhattan. This restaurant in particular has special meaning for Menzel, who once worked there as a reservationist, way before she had cemented her status as a Broadway star, celebrated […]
There’s something familiar about watching Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth have a conversation — the way that one of them tends to be a bubbling extrovert, the other more introspective but observant and ready with a joke. After a long day in workshops for their respective musical projects, […]
Students at The Walker School received a treat when the “Queen of Broadway,” Idina Menzel, celebrated for her performances from “Wicked” to Disney’s “Frozen,” visited the school with sister Cara Mentzel to promote their newest children’s book “Proud Mouse.” The visit included the duo reading their book and singing […]
Persistence paid off in a big way for students at Aurora-area Catholic grade schools in the Rockford Diocese, thanks to the efforts of Holy Angels School librarian Diane Rodriguez. Rodriguez was instrumental in bringing Tony award-winning Broadway star Idina Menzel and her sister, acclaimed writer and teacher Cara […]
Even before I stepped into Holy Angels School in Aurora, I could almost feel the excitement. Definitely I could hear it, much of the enthusiasm coming from a van full of preschoolers who were returning to Holy Angels to join the other 400-plus students about to meet the […]
To celebrate Tuesday’s publication of Proud Mouse from Disney Legend Idina Menzel (Frozen) and her sister, Cara Mentzel, an acclaimed writer and teacher, we sat down with the siblings for an exclusive chat about the sequel to their children’s picture book Loud Mouse. The new book, with illustrations […]
Sisters Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel, who grew up in Syosset, have written a second children’s picture book, “Proud Mouse.” It features them as colorful mice in elementary school and hearkens back to Cara’s quest to embrace her own talents when her older sibling had such an enormous one. The release […]
Disco queen — or ‘Drama Queen’ — is seemingly the role the Tony-winner was born to play, as she celebrates being a “mess” and her “biggest, loudest, boldest self.” Broadway and Disney legend Idina Menzel is sitting onstage at Los Angeles’s Grammy Museum, chatting with Yahoo Entertainment music […]
The actor and singer, aged 52, on what she learned by singing at weddings, her childhood dream coming true and battling vanity I think I was born singing. I was always singing around the house as a child. I felt I had something special to share, though I […]
The Tony winner, best known for her roles in ‘Wicked’ and ‘Frozen,’ is entering a new music era with an unconventional social media rollout Peering through a wrought-iron gate in her backyard, Idina Menzel bobs her head to the beat as she lip-syncs, “Got a beast inside, and […]
The actress and musician on the culture that made her First paid gig For a wedding when I was 15. I drove illegally to the catering hall in my parents’ 1985 silver Cordoba. The band leader gave me a chance and I remember singing the theme song […]
Idina Menzel’s voice is one of the most iconic, powerful, and well known in all the land, so it may come as a mystery why Menzel wasn’t given a single note to sing in 2007’s hit film, Enchanted. Yet, that mystery may have just been uncovered almost 15 […]