The Premiere Idina Menzel Resource
Idina Menzel’s latest album, Christmas: A Season Of Love, will be re-released exclusively at Target with 2 bonus tracks! The bonus tracks are piano versions of ‘At This Table’ and ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’ featuring her husband, Aaron Lohr. The album will be released October 30. Order and check your local stock at Target.com on October 30!
Idina-Here is 15 today and I’m celebrating with new Youtube channel with nearly 200 videos from the site’s video archive!! There are videos of Idina from the 1990s on, with interviews and performances from her various eras, including Rent, Wicked, I Stand, etc.
When the site was launched in 2005, Idina was working on See What I Wanna See and promoting the release of the movie version of Rent. It’s pretty cool to see how far she’s come since then! She’s released 6 albums, toured extensively (and played Madison Square Garden!), starred in the highest grossing animated film of all time (Frozen 2), sung at the Academy Awards (twice!), scored a smash hit with BILLIONS of views on Youtube (Let It Go), made Billboard Hot 100 history as the first Tony Award winner to ever have a song reach the top 10 on the chart (Let It Go), saw a musical through development and starred in it on Broadway (If/Then), celebrated televised milestones of her former shows Rent and Wicked with Rent: Live on Fox and the Wicked 15th Anniversary Special on NBC and so much more. I can’t wait to see what Idina will accomplish in the next 15 years!
As a reminder, Idina-Here has an extensive Photo Gallery with tens of thousands of photos of Idina throughout the years as well as a Press Archive with hundreds of articles, interviews and reviews. You can also take a walk down memory lane by visiting the old message board, So Beautiful.
Thank you all for visiting and supporting the site over the last 15 years! I’ve loved working on the site and meeting so many fellow fans over the last 5+ years and I’m excited to continue! I hope everyone enjoys the new Youtube channel. There are a handful of videos that couldn’t be uploaded on Youtube so I’ll figure out an alternate way to share them soon.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Skintight) is raising money by raffling off a private virtual vocal lesson/meet & greet with Idina Menzel! For just $10 (or more), you can purchase a raffle ticket to be entered to win! Here’s an excerpt of the letter Idina wrote for the cause:
With your donation of $10 or more, you can enter for a chance to win a private, virtual meet-and-greet and vocal session with me! We’ll hop on Zoom, share some stories and some laughs, and I’ll share some of my best vocal tips, tricks and advice; maybe we’ll even sing a duet! I’ll also sign some exclusive merch for you and send it right to your home.
All proceeds will help create virtual programs, keep staff and artists employed, and ensure opportunities for artists and technicians when Roundabout’s doors reopen.Get details and enter to win here. The last day to enter is November 2, 2020.
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 is streaming now exclusively on Disney+! The six-part documentary series provides a behind the scenes look at the making of the film including Idina’s recording sessions, her visits with animators, her performance with the cast at D23 and more. I highly recommend it!
Idina also participated in a Zoom press conference to promote the new series:
Disney has announced a new behind the scenes documentary series, “Into The Unknown: Making Frozen 2”, will be heading to Disney+ on June 26th! The six-episode series will go behind behind the scenes of Frozen 2. Each episode will be between 30 and 40 minutes in length and all six episodes will be available on June 26. Here’s the official synopsis:
With the clock ticking and less than a year until the world premiere of Frozen 2, the filmmakers, artists, songwriters and cast open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to reveal the hard work, heart, and collaboration it takes to create one of the most highly-anticipated films in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ near-century of moviemaking. For the first time, cameras were there to capture an eye-opening – and at times jaw-dropping – view of the challenges and the breakthroughs, the artistry, creativity and the complexity of creating the #1 animated feature of all time.
The series follows director/writer/chief creative officer Jennifer Lee, director Chris Buck, producer Peter Del Vecho, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, actors Kristen Bell (“Anna”), Idina Menzel (“Elsa”), Josh Gad (“Olaf”), Jonathan Groff (“Kristoff”), Sterling K. Brown (“Lieutenant Mattias”), Evan Rachel Wood (“Iduna”) and the talented artists and technicians of Disney Animation as they race against time to finish the film, with both creative breakthroughs and frustrations along the way.
