“Introducing Idina Menzel…what could possibly go wrong?” Savannah Guthrie cracked before introducing Billboard’s Breakthrough honoree at our Women in Music event Friday (Dec. 12). Guthrie had a bit of a surprise for Menzel. Guthrie began by talking about A BroaderWay, a summer musical theater camp Menzel founded to […]
Idina Menzel understands how the “Let It Go” phenomenon might get on parents’ nerves. “You probably hate me [if you have kids],” Menzel told the audience during a StriVectin-hosted private performance at The Glasshouses in Chelsea on Monday night, a spy told Page Six. In March, “Frozen” became […]
Idina Menzel is having a hard time on the dating scene following her divorce from Taye Diggs in December after 10 years of marriage. Cutting straight to the point, Menzel spoke candidly with Valentine in the Morning, about her experience dating as a single mother, and from the […]
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 […]
Idina Menzel knows a thing or two about charmed lives. She is, after all, the original Elphaba, the green-skinned witch of “Wicked,” the megahit Broadway musical that earned her a Tony Award and the adoration of theatergoers young and old who wished for a voice that might, like […]
A failed audition for Disney movie TANGLED that a casting director taped on her iPhone helped singer IDINA MENZEL land a leading role in the movie studio’s latest animated treat. Menzel tried out for a leading role in the 2010 fairytale film by performing an acoustic version of […]
After 10 agonizing years, Wicked Tony winner Idina Menzel is finally returning to Broadway! Menzel will star in If/Then, a new musical by the team behind the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal: composer Tom Kitt, scribe Brian Yorkey, director Michael Greif (who worked with Menzel on […]
I was equal parts excited and nervous to interview the great Idina Menzel. Aside from being an amazing talent and someone I admire greatly, she is also the most famous person I have ever conversed with to date. (There was that one time I sat directly behind Gwen […]
It’s a boy for Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel. The couple welcomed a son, Walker Diggs, on Wednesday, the couple’s reps confirm to PEOPLE. “Mother, father and son are all doing well,” the reps said in a statement. The Broadway belters announced the pregnancy in March, later sharing […]
Taye Diggs and his wife, Idina Menzel, are expecting a son, In Touch Weekly is reporting. “They are so excited to have a boy,” an insider says. “Taye especially is over the moon and can’t stop talking about all the things he’ll do with him!” The baby is […]
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, […]
We always wonder how much a symphony enjoys being a backup band. Stuck literally playing second fiddle to Broadway star Idina Menzel’s own band — which was center stage at the Woods at Fontanel — the Nashville Symphony’s concertmaster broke into a smile halfway through a pretty brilliant […]
What better way to kick off Sunday—and to celebrate Father’s Day!—than with the latest installment of Music City Confidential! Here’s where you’ll find all the news that’s fit to print (or not—depending on your perspective) from Nashville’s ever-growing, ever-fascinating live theater industry. Amid the florid prose and flowery […]
Idina Menzel recently performed at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas and continues to perform throughout the United States. From the moment she walked out onstage, you knew Idina’s concert was going to be different from any other concert. As Idina walked across the stage, it was […]
For those of us who know Idina Menzel only from her star-making performances in Broadway’s “Rent” and “Wicked,” her Sunday night Smith Center concert was a revelation. We expected the electrifying belt in songs such as “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “Defying Gravity,” but who knew she […]