”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 […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who was to play her final performance in Wicked Jan. 9, was injured during the Jan. 8 matinee of the hit Stephen Schwartz musical. Shoshana Bean, Menzel’s standby who was slated to officially take over the role of Elphaba beginning Jan. 11, played […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, whose final weekend in the hit musical Wicked was marred by an onstage injury that left her with a broken rib, has posted a letter on her official website. Menzel writes, “So here I am, on my couch, propped up by 12 pillows, […]
Question: I think that’s important in this business. Menzel: It’s always come back. It always resurfaces in our lives, whether it was the five-year anniversary or doing the movie or now doing the Tonys and saying goodbye. It’s always come at a time when I need to get […]
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 […]
She’s got the biggest voice on Broadway – and now leading musical actress and Glee star IDINA MENZEL is flexing her vocal cords in the Disney Christmas blockbuster. Lina Das is spellbound When it comes to fanbases, Idina Menzel certainly possesses one of the most proactive in the […]
L.A. is fine — the sun shines most of the time — but in New York, you get to do things like meet Idina Menzel, who, in case you’ve been living under a rock, originated the role of lesbian Maureen in Rent and witch Elphaba in Wicked (for […]
Good morning! Last week I had the amazing opportunity to get on the horn with Tony Award winning actress Idina Menzel. I was at her showcase here in hollywood a few weeks ago in support of her new album i stand – which is simply gorgeous and out […]
Movies Online sat down with Idina Menzel at the Los Angeles press day for “Enchanted,” directed by Kevin Lima (“Tarzan,” “Eloise At Christmastime”) from a screenplay written by Bill Kelly (“Blast From the Past”) and featuring original songs from the reunited team of acclaimed composer Alan Menken and […]
Idina Menzel Provides a Few Details on “Enchanted:” “Amy Adams is playing this princess in a real fairy tale world. It starts out with eight minutes of animation, like a spoof on Disney, and she plays this princess, and James Marsden is the prince. They fall in love […]
The “green girl” is coming. That girl also goes by the name of Idina Menzel, who is known around the world as the source of the ground-shaking voice behind such memorable characters as Maureen Johnson in the original cast of “Rent” as well as her most recent Broadway […]
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 […]
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, […]
Idina Menzel doesn’t do anything halfway – even when she’s deciding on her gay faves. “It’s so silly,” says the homo-hearted theater queen, surfing Google for “hot gay male celebrities.” Her assistant even gets involved. “This is very important stuff,” Menzel giggles, fully immersed in her search to […]
News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage. There has never been any doubt about Idina Menzel’s vocal prowess. From the moment she stepped on to the Broadway stage as Maureen in the late Jonathan Larson’s Rent, it was clear […]