Idina Menzel on “Redwood”, “Wicked”, “Rent” and “her moments” is the most proud of
Idina Menzel returned to Broadway in a new musician-for the Tony Prize-winning actor, who is now starring “Redwood”, it’s exactly the type of work you love more.
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“I think my proud moments in my career were with the original musical plays,” said Menzel, who played the starring role in the original “Rent” and won the role of ELPHABA in “WICADAD”. Talking about the new episode of “Stagecraft”, diverse“I know that the original musical plays pose a huge danger, and it takes a lot of patience and faith when they start from the nucleus of something and reach Broadway.”
The “Redwood” idea seed began with Menzel, who depicted the piece with the director, writer of the book and Nakna Landau. The two soldiers from the composer and the new expatriate in Broadway Kate Diaz to help them tell the story of Jesse, a woman who escapes from her life on the eastern coast – and the tragedy she is chasing – to find a recovery between Rhoud Road trees in northern California.
She said: “I was really allowed to work with Kate to explore these different parts of my voice, and they are not all acrobatic.” “It is more than the best way to tell a story, any part of my voice will contact people and tell that story. here. It comes to: How can I contact you as deeply as possible? “
“Redwood”, which was opened in Broadway in February, comes at a time when “rent” and “bad guys”, the ownerships are closely related to Menzel, again to Zeitgeist. “Wicked”, of course, inspired the movie, which has become a prize holder, all over the world during the holidays (in which Menzel is a veil), while this spring in New York, some of the first work for Jonathan Larson, the late creator of “rent”, got an offer in Broadway in “The Jonathan Larson Project”.
“It is emotional to me,” Menzel said when asked how “the bad guys” and “rent” affect her life and career. ))
She added that the full experience of “rent” and the sudden loss of Harson as it was about to make the first offer in Broadway, “I really set a very specific basis and a principle of me, as important as this profession that I choose and what really matters.”
Also, in the new episode of “Stagecraft”, MEZEL discusses its favorite part of “Redwood” and takes listeners on a virtual tour in her dressing room, which was decorated not only with the Redwood background but also the real cracks of the Redwood tree.
“I have a red child!” It was revealed. “It can be in his small fate for two or three years before you have to plant it. But I will take it out of there much closer.”
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