Idina Menzel has a whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin. Who knew? The Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer/actress has included Led Zep’s “Black Dog” in the set of her 2017 World Tour, pairing it with “Cake” from her 2016 album Idina. “(‘Cake’) always reminded me having a little Zeppelin […]
If luck is the crossroads where opportunity meets preparation, then it’s clear that Idina Menzel has been going through life with the spiritual equivalent of a four-leaf clover hanging over her head. Starting with a 1996 Tony-nominated debut as an original cast member of the off-Broadway and Broadway […]
To many, especially a generation of “Frozen”-loving youngsters, Idina Menzel is Queen Elsa and, more importantly, the voice of the film’s Grammy Award-winning hit “Let It Go.” But there’s more to her story than that. A Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran, Menzel has originated key parts in “Rent,” “Wicked” […]
Idina Menzel mooed as the performance artist Maureen in the original production of “Rent” in 1996 and, ever since, Broadway audiences have mooed back. Over the past decades, Menzel has won over everyone from musical theater nerds to Tony voters to princess wannabes, as Maureen with her audience-participation […]
What’s tougher, live or voice acting? I like live action, obviously. But with voice acting, there’s less pressure and no makeup. I love it. You take your 7-year-old son, Walker, to most tour dates. How has that changed things? I see the cities through a child’s eyes. If […]
Phoenix is the last city on Idina Menzel’s list—and that’s a good thing. It means that a 56-city, three-continent tour by the vocal artist some have called “a contemporary Barbra Streisand” will culminate here, September 3, at Comerica Theatre. What will she be doing after September 3? “I […]
Every once in awhile an opportunity comes up in life that makes you pinch yourself. Today, this came in the form of a conversation with the one and only Idina Menzel: an artist who, throughout her career, has inspired me on so many levels. We talked her upcoming Nashville […]
It can be hard to believe that it has been more than two decades since a then 24-year-old Long Island native named Idina Menzel shot to superstardom as the feisty bisexual Maureen in Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical Rent. And what may be equally hard to believe is that, […]
After going green—and winning a Tony Award—for her rafter-piercing origination of Elphaba in “Wicked,” Idina Menzel solidified herself as a reigning queen of musical theater. What, then, brings the emblem back to the New York stage after over three years away? The answer, surprisingly enough, is a straight […]
Idina Menzel has done it before. Once. In New York City. On New Year’s Eve. In Times Square. She sang outside in the cold. Freezing cold. “Zero degrees,” she recalled of that night in 2014. Well, weather records indicate that it was 27 degrees but she’s a Broadway […]
On Monday, May 21 [2018] (7:30pm), Broadway will battle it out at the 6th Annual Karaoke Benefit- a spectacular show of unpredictable karaoke to support A BroaderWay Foundation, founded by Idina Menzel. New to the event this year, cast members from The Lion King, Frozen, SpongeBob SquarePants and […]
For Gay Pride Month, Billboard asked numerous pop culture luminaries to write ‘love letters’ to the LGBTQ community. Below, singer and actress Idina Menzel — who originated the Broadway roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked — shares hers. Happy Pride Month! To my LGBTQ friends […]
”IT’S good to see me, isn’t it?” Thus does Glinda the Good Witch introduce herself, suspended in midair and floating down into Munchkinland at the start of ”Wicked,” the new $14 million Broadway musical that takes place in the fictionally familiar land of Oz and opens at the […]
No matter what happens in Idina Menzel’s career, there will probably never be anything like what she went through last year when she was riding atop the pop culture wave. Professionally, “Frozen,” for which Menzel supplied the voice of Queen Elsa and sang the breakout song “Let It […]
Idina Menzel takes defying gravity in stride. The raven-haired beauty first blazed into the celebrity firmament in 1996 as the outrageous Maureen in “Rent” on Broadway. Then her career got an extra layer of sparkle as the emerald girl, Elphaba, in “Wicked,” which opened in San Francisco in […]