{"id":408,"date":"2015-10-23T01:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T01:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/?p=408"},"modified":"2015-10-23T01:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T01:53:53","slug":"idina-menzel-lets-go-of-oscars-name-flub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/idina-menzel-lets-go-of-oscars-name-flub\/","title":{"rendered":"Idina Menzel lets go of Oscars name flub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idina Menzel has already talked about how she&#8217;s forgiven John Travolta for mispronouncing her name at the Oscars. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the moment didn&#8217;t throw the Broadway veteran \u2014 it did. For a full eight seconds.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative; padding-bottom:63%; padding-bottom:-webkit-calc(56.25% + 50px); padding-bottom:calc(56.25% + 50px); height: 0;\"><iframe style=\"position:absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/offsite\/today\/54855336\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I had done this whole preparation to make sure that I really was in my body and didn&#8217;t get too nervous,&#8221; she said on TODAY Thursday, referring to her last moments before taking the stage that night to sing &#8220;Let it Go&#8221; from &#8220;Frozen.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I was picturing my (4-year-old) son Walker, I thought, &#8216;Let me just sing it to him&#8217; like we do in the bathtub &#8230; and (Travolta) said my name like that and I was like, &#8216;Did that just happen?'&#8221; Menzel recalled. &#8220;Then the orchestra started and then for eight seconds, I said, &#8216;Get your s&#8212; together! And like, stop worrying about your name and sing this song!&#8217; &#8230; So it took me about eight seconds to get over myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the actions of a pro, and Menzel, who&#8217;s had a recurring role on &#8220;Glee&#8221; and won a Tony for her role in &#8220;Wicked,&#8221; is the very essence of a seasoned professional. Yet she&#8217;s having one of the biggest moments of her career right now, topping the Billboard charts with &#8220;Let it Go&#8221; and inspiring numerous loving parodies of the song. <\/p>\n<p>She told TODAY&#8217;s Tamron Hall that the whole &#8220;phenomenon&#8221; of the song&#8217;s success was a surprise, and answered some questions from fans.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative; padding-bottom:63%; padding-bottom:-webkit-calc(56.25% + 50px); padding-bottom:calc(56.25% + 50px); height: 0;\"><iframe style=\"position:absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/offsite\/today\/54854921\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>These days, Menzel is starring in a more grown-up theater production, the new Broadway musical &#8220;If\/Then,&#8221; which she said is about a woman who &#8220;gets to start her life over.&#8221; (She even performed songs from the show, &#8220;Learn to Live Without&#8221; and &#8220;Here I Go,&#8221; on TODAY.) But thanks to &#8220;Frozen,&#8221; Menzel&#8217;s fans will no doubt skew very young for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative; padding-bottom:63%; padding-bottom:-webkit-calc(56.25% + 50px); padding-bottom:calc(56.25% + 50px); height: 0;\"><iframe style=\"position:absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/offsite\/today\/54855430\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idina Menzel has already talked about how she&#8217;s forgiven John Travolta for mispronouncing her name at the Oscars. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the moment didn&#8217;t throw the Broadway veteran \u2014 it did. For a full eight seconds. &#8220;I had done this whole preparation to make sure that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,40],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-42","tag-ifthen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Srnq-6A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idina-here.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}