“It’s still a revolutionary thing, to this day, to say, ‘That perfect girl is gone.’” Billboard is celebrating the 2010s with essays on the 100 songs that we feel most define the decade that was — the songs that both shaped and reflected the music and culture of the period — with […]
Let It Go is an iconic power anthem. What’s the song you turn to when feeling down? That’s a good question. I have a few. Sometimes, I honestly go to silence because if I’m in a depressed place then great, beautiful music can paralyse me. Because I’m so […]
Despite the majestic arc of Elsa’s “Into the Unknown,” the conditions in which Idina Menzel first rehearsed her “Frozen 2″ power ballad were remarkably unglamorous. Songwriting duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez first heard the “Wicked” alum belt the movie’s flagship track in her dressing room backstage at […]
The wait is over: six years after Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen took the world by (ice) storm in a way that no one, not even the studio, saw coming, the adventures of royal sisters Elsa and Anna continue in Frozen II. Loosely inspired by a story from fairy […]
Idina Menzel is basically the Queen of the Holidays this year, with her brand-new album Christmas: A Season of Love out now, not to mention another bombastic turn as Elsa in the blockbuster Disney sequel Frozen II in theaters. So she’s the perfect guest for a special holiday episode of […]
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,” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Skintight, now making its West Coast premiere at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse, is an acerbic, neurotic, heart-achingly funny meditation on family, love, and beauty – and how we quantify, catalog, and value each of those things. Idina Menzel, straight from the off-Broadway production, headlines as Jodi Isaac, a […]