{"id":1009,"date":"2022-01-10T23:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2022-01-10T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:33:23","slug":"idina-menzel-5-things-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/idina-menzel-5-things-you-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Idina Menzel: 5 Things You Didn\u2019t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

From film roles to how she got her role on \u201cGlee,\u201d here are a few facts you may not have known about the Broadway powerhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Idina Menzel<\/strong> is a Broadway powerhouse, but she\u2019s also guest starred on Fox\u2019s Glee <\/em>for five episodes as Rachel Berry\u2019s mother Shelby Corcoran.<\/p>\n

Menzel \u2014 best known for originating the roles of Elphaba in Wicked<\/em> and Maureen in Rent<\/em> \u2014 has done, including film, appearances on other television programs and even releasing solo albums.<\/p>\n

Here are five things you may not have known about Menzel:<\/p>\n

1. She made her feature debut in 2001\u2019s Kissing Jessica Stein<\/em>: <\/strong>As a bridesmaid, Menzel starred alongside Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen in the indie romantic comedy directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. Though her role wasn\u2019t major, the actress would next appear in Just a Kiss<\/em> as Linda with her husband Taye Diggs, released the following year. She has also starred in 2004\u2019s The Tollbooth, <\/em>2006\u2019s Ask the Dust<\/em> and 2007\u2019s Enchanted.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. She\u2019s appeared in numerous projects with her husband: <\/strong>Beginning with the original Broadway production of Rent <\/em>(where they first met), Menzel and Diggs have joined forces on several film and TV projects. The couple appeared in 2002 film Just a Kiss<\/em> and in the 2005 big-screen adaptation of the seminal Broadway musical Rent.<\/em> On the television side, Menzel guest starred as Francine in Diggs\u2019 UPN series Kevin Hill<\/em> in 2005 and appeared as Lisa in ABC\u2019s Private Practice<\/em> in 2009.<\/p>\n

3. She wanted to guest star on Glee, <\/em>and got it:<\/strong> \u201cI know that she would love to guest star on Glee<\/i>,\u201d Menzel\u2019s husband said in an interview at the time. As far as Menzel\u2019s uncanny resemblance to Glee\u2019s Lea Michele: \u201cWe knew that existed far, far before the TV world did,\u201d Diggs said of Menzel and Michele\u2019s past Broadway history.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. She\u2019s a supporter of theater: <\/strong>In 2010, Menzel founded A BroaderWay Foundation with Diggs in order to support young people in the arts. The foundation sponsors camps, theater workshops, educational programs and also gives scholarships to see and experience professional shows.<\/p>\n

5. She\u2019s released three solo albums, not including seven cast recordings:<\/strong> As a singer, Menzel has put out three studio albums: 1998\u2019s Still I Can\u2019t Be Still, <\/em>2004\u2019s Here<\/em> and 2008\u2019s I Stand,<\/em> which peaked at No. 58 on the U.S. charts and No. 54 in the U.K. That doesn\u2019t include the numerous cast recordings (and soundtracks) she is featured on, including Rent, Wicked,<\/em> the Off-Broadway production The Wild Party<\/em> and See What I Wanna See.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From film roles to how she got her role on \u201cGlee,\u201d here are a few facts you may not have known about the Broadway powerhouse. Idina Menzel is a Broadway powerhouse, but she\u2019s also guest starred on Fox\u2019s Glee for five episodes as Rachel Berry\u2019s mother Shelby Corcoran. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/menzel-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Srnq-gh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}