Idina Menzel News

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is February 16, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Last night's final Jeopardy! was 'Broadway Plays.' Test your theatre knowledge and see if you can guess what play Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers starred in! Watch the video and check out past Jeopardy categories, including an Idina Menzel category, a Tony-Winning Musicals category, a Shakespeare's Women category, and a Stephen Sondheim category.

As we prepare for the highly-anticipated Wicked movie musical, fans are returning to the iconic Original Broadway Cast Recording. The day after the teaser trailer dropped, over a dozen songs from the album received significant spikes on Spotify in the U.S. Check out how songs like 'Defying Gravity' and 'Popular' have increased in streams!

Portland-based songwriter Jenn Grinels has been chosen for the Emerging Writers Residency at Circle in the Square Theatre in NYC. Before leaving, she will present a concert of highlights from her new musical The Rosetta Project at Alberta Rose Theatre on February 25th. Tickets available at AlbertaRoseTheatre.com.

Redwood, the new musical starring Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, begins its World Premiere engagement at La Jolla Playhouse. Learn more about this new show, and learn how to purchase tickets.

Joey McInytre will return to the cast of DRAG: The Musical this March at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood. Learn more about the shows and see how to purchase tickets.

BroadwayWorld is celebrating all of the Broadway performers who have sang the National Anthem at major sporting events in the past, including Idina Menzel's performance at Super Bowl XLIX. Which version is your favorite? Watch all the videos here!

Broadway Theatre Project will welcome Michael Orland to this summer's artistic training program. Michael Orland will be working with the apprentices and creating an 'Open Mic Night' for them to perform. Learn about Shaping The Artist here!

Find out who won at the GRAMMYs. Notable winners include Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, SZA, Fred Again.., Shucked songwriter Brandy Clark, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Kylie Minogue, Billie Eilish for the Barbie soundtrack, and more.

Maria Friedman and friends will celebrate the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand in a one-night-only concert taking place in March.

RENT is an assemblage of romantic tragedy interspersed with moments that touch your heart, rattle your nerves or tickle your funny bone, set in the gritty underbelly of New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The show is a tribute to the spirit of people undaunted by poverty, addiction and illness in the face of a very bleak reality. 

Gutenberg! The Musical! will release a cast recording! After taking their final bows on the stage of the Jones Theatre, Josh Gad  and Andrew Rannells step into the studio to record the upcoming Original Broadway Cast Album. The album will be released this spring on Center Stage Records and Yellow Sound Label.

The biggest performances are the ones we put on for each other. Just ask Broadway superfans Jeff and Judy, the stars of Island City Stage’s Which Way to the Stage. See photos from the production below.

Get a look at backstage photos of Sierra Boggess at Harmony.

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University is producing two opera-in-concert performances of Blind Injustice, composed by Montclair State University College of the Arts faculty member Scott Davenport Richards (A Star Across the Ocean, Charlie Crosses the Nation) with a libretto by David Cote (Three Way, The Scarlet Ibis).

I feel the usual pre-performance nerves kick in. I’ve been practicing this one song for weeks. I give myself an internal pep talk, and give the pianist a small nod to communicate that I am ready. Sondheim's words pour out of my mouth as my small 8 year old voice fills the Black Box theater. 

Ahead of the finale of BroadwayWorld's Next on Stage, Richard Ridge sat down to chat with esteemed vocal coach Matt Farnsworth - who has worked with the winners of the last four seasons of Next on Stage as part of their prize.

The complete cast and creative team has been revealed for Redwood starring Idina Menzel. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Check out a full analysis of the history of movie musicals, with supporting facts from box office analysis to ratings, budgets, search traffic and more!

The nationally traveling version of the Broadway musical has made its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center and is already attracting large crowds of adults and many children, some of which are attired in the costumes of its lead characters Elsa and Anna (though mostly Elsa).