If you like musicals packed with songs delivered by a vibrant cast boasting a certified star at the helm, all surrounded by cool stagecraft, then hasten to the National Theatre for the pre-Broadway tryout of “If/Then.” If you’re more interested in truly distinctive music and a totally straightforward […]
Emotionally capturing both the poise and vulnerability of a seemingly privileged, majestic princess whose every desire is within her reach can be a difficult challenge for an actor. But Idina Menzel, who began publicly singing as a teenager in part to prove to herself that she could rise […]
Idina Menzel can belt it out. This is no secret. Menzel is probably best known for her singing and acting in roles on Broadway in “Rent” and “Wicked,” winning a Tony Award for the latter. She’s also appeared in films and on television shows, so you’d think she’d […]
A failed audition for Disney movie TANGLED that a casting director taped on her iPhone helped singer IDINA MENZEL land a leading role in the movie studio’s latest animated treat. Menzel tried out for a leading role in the 2010 fairytale film by performing an acoustic version of […]
Idina Menzel knows a thing or two about charmed lives. She is, after all, the original Elphaba, the green-skinned witch of “Wicked,” the megahit Broadway musical that earned her a Tony Award and the adoration of theatergoers young and old who wished for a voice that might, like […]
Tony Award-winning actresses Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who created the respective roles of Elphaba and Glinda — the not-so Wicked Witches of Oz — take a trip down memory lane and individually chat with Playbill about the long-running, hit musical that stormed Broadway ten years ago. “It […]
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 […]
When you are in the presence of a star, you know it. That was the atmosphere at last nights Idina Menzel concert in Boone, N.C. If you are a Broadway musical fan, then you know Ms. Menzel for her roles in the iconic shows RENT and Wicked. If […]
Idina Menzel closes the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and kicks off her Australian Tour as only a Broadway legend could. Adelaide Festival Theatre, June 22 From the moment the opening bars of Somewhere over the Rainbow rained through from the wings, Idina Menzel had the audience in the palm […]
Around halfway through Idina Menzel’s Melbourne concert on Sunday night it strikes me that there must have been a few people from Long Island scratching their heads back in the day. It might have been a wedding they were guests at, or perhaps a Bar Mitzvah, one just […]
There are a few things you probably shouldn’t do right before you call Idina Menzel. You probably shouldn’t shuffle through the WICKED soundtrack on your iPod. You probably shouldn’t head to YouTube and watch that clip of her winning her first Tony Award for that very same musical. […]
After 10 agonizing years, Wicked Tony winner Idina Menzel is finally returning to Broadway! Menzel will star in If/Then, a new musical by the team behind the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal: composer Tom Kitt, scribe Brian Yorkey, director Michael Greif (who worked with Menzel on […]
Idina Menzel at Carnegie Hall Nearly a decade has passed since Idina Menzel introduced her signature song, the Stephen Schwartz anthem “Defying Gravity” in the 2003 Broadway smash “Wicked.” With help from “Glee,” on which she sang it, it has grown in stature to become a defiant proclamation […]
I was equal parts excited and nervous to interview the great Idina Menzel. Aside from being an amazing talent and someone I admire greatly, she is also the most famous person I have ever conversed with to date. (There was that one time I sat directly behind Gwen […]
Menzel brings Broadway to the Auditorium Theatre by Paloma Capanna If we count her opening excerpt from “Over the Rainbow,” soprano Idina Menzel was a thrill last night at the Auditorium Theatre, performing more than two hours of Broadway songs from hits such as “Wicked,” “Rent,” and “A […]