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Menzel performing in 2008. Idina Menzel is an American actress of stage, film, and television. She rose to prominence for playing Maureen Johnson in the Broadway production of Rent. She also originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked and later had a cameo in the motion picture adaptation. [1] [2] [3]
Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson 's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name , in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini , Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa , which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger .
Idina Kim Menzel (/ ɪ ˈ d iː n ə m ɛ n ˈ z ɛ l / ih-DEE-nə men-ZEL; née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) [2] [3] is an American actress and singer. Particularly known for her work in musicals on Broadway, she has been nicknamed the "Queen of Broadway" for her commanding stage presence, powerful mezzo-soprano, and reputation as one of the most influential stage actors of her generation.
"For the first time in life, I can take some money and put it away."
Thoms has appeared in several movies, most notably in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rent in which she plays Joanne Jefferson, lawyer and lover of Maureen Johnson (Idina Menzel). She took over the role from Fredi Walker, who played Joanne in the original Broadway production of Rent but, at age 43, was deemed too old to reprise the ...
Idina Menzel Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock “Into the Unknown”! ... After getting her big break in 1995 by originating the role of Maureen in Rent, Menzel went on to marry her costar Taye Diggs ...
Idina Menzel is stepping into a new role. The Broadway and film icon may live forever in our hearts as Wicked’s Elphaba and Frozen’s Elsa, but she’s taking a cue from those two adventurous ...
Rent: Live is an American television special that was broadcast by Fox on January 27, 2019. It is a partially live [a] production of the 1996 Tony Award-winning musical Rent, which tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.