The new musical Wicked is not only a hit at the box office but at record stores as well. The Wicked cast recording — now available on the Decca Broadway label — had the highest first-week sales of any Broadway cast recording since Jonathan Larson’s Rent in 1996. […]
Michael Cole at a Wicked Reading in December 2001 Part of The Schwartz Scene back issue archives. Carol asked me to write about my experience singing in the ensemble of the December reading of WICKED. For those of you who don’t know, a “reading” of a musical or […]
Played almost twice as frequently as the runner-up, Idina Menzel’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside (featuring Michael Buble)” remains the song to beat at adult contemporary radio. According to Mediabase, Menzel’s take on the classic received an impressive 1,192 spins and 6.84 million audience impressions during the December 7-13 […]
Idina Menzel’s rendition of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is red hot at the adult contemporary radio format. According to Mediabase’s rolling airplay chart, Menzel’s cover of the holiday classic, which features Michael Buble, was adult contemporary’s most-played song during the period between November 26 and December 2. The […]
On Big Breaks… “First big break—hard to say. Could be Mabel in ‘The Pirates of Penzance,’ 4th grade, Baylis Elementary School, where I discovered the warmth and exhilaration of the spotlight. Or perhaps getting hired as a professional wedding/bar mitzvah singer at the age of 15 for Tony […]
Sisters in song! Idina Menzel and her sister Cara Mentzel teamed up to sing “Never Never Land” to coincide with the upcoming release of Mentzel’s memoir, Voice Lessons: A Sisters Story. The Broadway actress, 46, explains in the video that Peter Pan was the first musical she and […]
Call it life imitating art — or is it the other way round? — but there are some unexpected similarities between the lives of Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel and Elizabeth, her character in the new musical “If/Then,” which opens tonight at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The Syosset High […]