Idina Menzel is often associated with highly identifiable and iconic pop-culture characters, from Elphaba in Wicked to Elsa in Frozen, among other roles in Rent, Glee and more. Though she tells Billboard that while exploring work in theater, film and television has allowed for creative balance — “I get to vacillate […]
Though it arrives nearly 20 years after her debut album, the timing couldn’t be more perfect for a self-titled Idina Menzel release. Menzel’s latest, out Sept. 23, is a declaration of self – of her real self, that is. “It’s how you pronounce my name,” the Broadway star […]
Idina Menzel is all about Elsa, no matter who she loves. The Frozen star spoke to ET on the Billboard Music Awards red carpet in Las Vegas about the recent petition, #GiveElsaAGirlfriend, which is calling for the Disney princess to have a female love interest in the sequel. […]
When Idina Menzel sashays onto the stage at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday for the annual PACER Center benefit, she’ll size up the audience. When you’re a star of Broadway (“Wicked,” “Rent,” “If/Then”), recordings (“Let It Go”), TV (“Glee”) and movies (“Frozen”), you have various constituencies. “I […]
The Tony-winning star reflected on her illustrious Broadway and Hollywood career as part of Tribeca’s Storytellers series. Even if you’ve never heard of Idina Menzel, you’ve very likely heard her powerful singing voice booming on the hit song “Let It Go,” from the Disney musical Frozen. For Broadway […]
A whole new generation of viewers will get to experience Beaches via Lifetime’s upcoming original film, but following in the footsteps of legendary actresses Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey was a daunting task for Idina Menzel and Nia Long. Menzel will take over Midler’s role of CC, an […]
Idina Menzel has performed live at the Oscars, starred in the highest-grossing animated film of all time (Disney’s Frozen), and sung for the President of the United States. And yet—even with all that on her resume—starring in Lifetime TV’s remake of Beaches left her absolutely petrified. “I love […]
Whenever Idina Menzel takes any stage on Long Island, she gets hit with a complicated mix of feelings and memories. “It’s emotional for me,” says the Tony-winning Syosset native, who has starred both on Broadway and in the dreams of a generation of kids as the voice of […]
It’s rare to find a performer as prolific and humble as Idina Menzel. The Tony Award-winning icon has made a name for herself both on stage and on screen thanks to starring roles in Rent, Wicked, and most recently Disney’s smash animated feature Frozen. Propelled to a household […]
About every 10 years, an Idina Menzel project makes history. She exploded onto the theater scene in 1994’s Broadway smash hit “Rent” as the vivacious performing artist Maureen. “Rent” went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and remains one of the longest-running Broadway shows in history. In 2003, […]
“When I see a sea of young girls in blue dresses looking up to me, I feel like a phony sometimes.” The Idina Menzel on her new self-titled album is not the theatrical powerhouse vocalist that Broadway and Disney fans have grown to love over the past 20 […]
Idina Menzel is opening up about her divorce from Taye Diggs, and revealing how the painful split helped inspire her new album. Menzel, 45, who recently announced her engagement to actor Aaron Lohr, sat down with PEOPLE Now, and got candid about the influence her breakup had on […]
If you haven’t heard of Idina Menzel, surely you have heard her. The powerhouse singer and actress has starred in Disney’s “Frozen” (she was the voice of Queen Elsa and sang “Let It Go”) and has been in the original Broadway casts of “Rent”” and “Wicked.” Menzel also […]
Idina Menzel is known to some as the green-skinned Elphaba from Wicked. Other fans go farther back and think of her as Maureen from Rent, while her youngest fans recognize her as the voice of magical Elsa in the Disney movie Frozen. When we caught up with the […]
Idina Menzel has the billion-dollar voice – that is billion with a “B.” It is in no small part because of that voice singing the hit song “Let It Go” that Disney’s Oscar-winning animated musical Frozen became the highest-grossing animated film of all time with a $1.2 billion […]