Idina Menzel showed some “Wicked” ways with the PSO. Fans of “Glee,” “Wicked” and “Rent” packed Heinz Hall Wednesday night for a sold-out show starring Idina Menzel. It was a beautiful sight to see the place filled with an audience ranging from 5 to 95 years old from […]
Idina Menzel made her Texas debut Thursday night at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, and impressed the 2000+ people in attendance so much that she was called out for two encores. Menzel’s Dallas stop is just the third city of a year-long symphony tour that […]
It’s been seven years since Idina Menzel won the Tony Award for her work as Elphaba in Wicked, and while the actress hasn’t been officially back on Broadway since then, she’s been keeping very busy. Two years ago, she released her album, I Stand; nine months ago, she […]
Indulge me for a moment: I want to call attention to the fact that a visit to Kleinhans for a buzzworthy show is an awesome experience. I’m not even referring to the actual performance by Idina Menzel on Saturday night with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (which was great—more […]
Saturday’s Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concert with Idina Menzel brought an odd situation, one I never remember encountering before. The page detailing her concert had been torn from all the programs. An usher slipped me a bootleg copy. He explained: “She didn’t want people to know what songs she […]
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 […]
Get ready, Toronto, because I’m thrilled to be the one to break the news to you that Idina Menzel, the Tony Award-winning star of Wicked, Glee and Rent will be appearing at Koerner Hall on Nov. 17 & 18 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and these concerts are […]
Menzel can currently be seen in the third season of TV’s Glee Glee and Wicked star Idina Menzel has urged caution over the recent practice of using TV talent shows to find West End leads. “If they just pick someone out of nowhere, they might sound great but […]
“All I ever wanted was to make a living singing,” says Idina Menzel, the Tony-winning singer-actress renowned for her roles in the landmark Broadway hits Wicked and Rent “When I was 15, that meant singing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. Now I get to sing with an 80-piece […]
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. […]
Broadway icon Idina Menzel has a wicked streak. Last April, her husband, singer-actor Taye Diggs, performed in Prelude, the 250-seat restaurant at Adrienne Arsht Center. Saturday night, Menzel sings at the Arsht Center’s 2,400-seat Knight Concert Hall. “I always have to outdo him,” she says, gleefully. Menzel, 40, […]
When you hear the name Idina Menzel, you might think of Shelby Corcoran in “Glee,” or Elphaba the witch in “Wicked,” or Maureen in “Rent.” Menzel has memorably played all three of those women. But in her upcoming PBS concert special and at the Ravinia Festival this summer, […]
Broadway star Idina Menzel is known for creating roles in two of the biggest musical-theater phenomena of recent decades, playing fiery performance artist Maureen in Rent and misunderstood, green-skinned Elphaba in Wicked, winning a Tony Award for the latter. She’s also recognizable to Glee fans as recurring character […]
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 […]