Idina Menzel performs only Nashville appearance tonight at TPAC With her third album, Idina Menzel, Tony Award winning star of Broadway musicals Rent and Wicked, is back with a vengeance. For the realization of this long-time dream, Menzel was joined by producer Glen Ballard (of Alanis Morrisette fame) […]
Idina Menzel lives to perform. The Tony Award-winning actress, best known for her Broadway roles of Elphaba in “Wicked” and Maureen Johnson in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Rent”, will perform with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra on Friday at the Bushnell in Hartford. “I love singing live. It’s what makes […]
My first job on broadway, in ‘rent’, was life-changing I’d been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, “Oh God, if this is all I […]
Is it any wonder that Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs son, Walker, has the gift of song and dance? Diggs told me in March that the little one was already taking music lessons at 17 months. “He’s definitely singing a lot more—and a lot of times in tune, […]
Tony Award-winning actress Idina Menzel is performing at famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on July 17, backed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Marvin Hamlisch. It’s part of an 18-month concert tour that has zig-zagged the singer across the United States from Los Angeles to […]
LENOX — For Broadway and TV actress Idina Menzel of “Rent,” “Wicked” and the Fox network’s “Glee,” the dream started in 1982 at the former Camp Olympus in the Catskills, near Monticello, N.Y. Singing there in “Oliver!” helped steer her toward a career in music and theater. This […]
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel has had quite a diverse career, from the stage, to films and music. A powerhouse of talent, she constantly amazes audiences with her strong, emotional performances. Menzel broke into the spotlight playing the role of Maureen, a bisexual performance artist, in the origional […]
Most orchestras don’t have the distinction of rocking out to Lady Gaga tunes. But that’s exactly what the Cleveland Orchestra will do Saturday when Broadway powerhouse Idina Menzel makes her debut at Blossom. Broadway star Idina Menzel will appear with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival opening […]
Broadway superstar and Tony Award winner, Idina Menzel, has had a busy year: a recurring role on the hit TV series, Glee; moving to a new house; and learning the ropes of motherhood. This month, another first: her Cincinnati Pops debut. I caught up with Menzel at home […]
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 […]
Tony Award winning actress Idina Menzel sat down with MTV News to discuss how she tackled Lady Gaga’s tunes and became familiar with the new pop icon. Television’s most award-winning new series, GLEE was recently honored with a Peabody Award; a Golden Globe for Best Television Series, Comedy […]
GLEE returns to FOX on April 13, 2010 at 9:30pm and we’ve got new footage of Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Jonathan Groff and Idina Menzel talking about the show’s return! Recent winner of the People’s Choice Award for Best New Comedy and Golden Globe winner for Best Television […]
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 […]
Just hours before the second episode of “Glee’s” second season hits the airwaves, Zap2it talked with Idina Menzel, who returns Tuesday (Sept. 27) as Shelby Corcoran, erstwhile Vocal Adrenalin coach, Rachel’s (Lea Michele’s) birth mother and adoptive mother of Quinn’s (Dianna Agron’s) baby. Without giving away too much, […]
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 […]