As a wedding singer in the 1980s, Idina Menzel came up with a crowd-pleasing formula: trot out a broad range of familiar songs, keep the party moving and the banter light. But the actress, who has since won a Tony Award for “Wicked” on Broadway and starred in […]
The Broadway star will return to the NYC stage Monday to host a karaoke benefit concert. Balancing her new “Undercover Boss” persona, Helen Gold, and rehearsals for Off-Broadway’s “Skintight,” Tony-winner Idina Menzel still manages to give back to her New York roots. The Broadway star will return to […]
You probably don’t need me to tell you that Idina Menzel is a force to be reckoned with and admired. Just look at the past two years the Broadway star has had and the fact that you still can’t get “Let It Go” out of your head. But, […]
As a Broadway veteran, Idina Menzel is accustomed to working large audiences. But she can be intimidated by smaller ones. During the past four summers, Menzel has spoken with groups of girls ages 10-14 from underserved urban communities who attend summer camp through her A BroaderWay Foundation. “Sometimes […]
Summer camp was always a magical time for future Broadway star Idina Menzel. “I loved being able to reinvent myself during the summer, and not be judged by the same group of kids I saw in school,” she says. So when she grew up and found success as […]
Is it any wonder that Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs son, Walker, has the gift of song and dance? Diggs told me in March that the little one was already taking music lessons at 17 months. “He’s definitely singing a lot more—and a lot of times in tune, […]
Tony Award-winning actress Idina Menzel is performing at famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on July 17, backed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Marvin Hamlisch. It’s part of an 18-month concert tour that has zig-zagged the singer across the United States from Los Angeles to […]
LENOX — For Broadway and TV actress Idina Menzel of “Rent,” “Wicked” and the Fox network’s “Glee,” the dream started in 1982 at the former Camp Olympus in the Catskills, near Monticello, N.Y. Singing there in “Oliver!” helped steer her toward a career in music and theater. This […]
Most orchestras don’t have the distinction of rocking out to Lady Gaga tunes. But that’s exactly what the Cleveland Orchestra will do Saturday when Broadway powerhouse Idina Menzel makes her debut at Blossom. Broadway star Idina Menzel will appear with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival opening […]
Whatever type of music or theatre you’re into, chances are you’ve heard Idina Menzel‘s voice. She was part of the Broadway revolution that was Rent in 1996, was the first to immerse herself in green make-up and iconic Stephen Schwartz melodies in global hit Wicked, and more recently […]
Actress and singer Idina Menzel is about to wrap up an 18-month concert tour – that is, when she’s not busy filming episodes of Fox’s hit show Glee, bringing the arts to young people, and being a wife to fellow performer Taye Diggs and mom to their 2-year-old […]
It’s not everyday that the Houston Symphony has an attention-starved, bisexual, green-faced, adoptive wicked mom who prefers to fly by broomstick on the Jones Hall stage. These are just some of the characters that have made Idina Menzel a household name just about everywhere. The men love her. […]
Thanks in part to her creation of two iconic and much-loved roles — Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked — Tony Award–winner Idina Menzel is a gay fan favorite whose powerful voice is always in demand on Broadway and the concert stage. In the new Idina Menzel […]