Showing posts with label idina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idina. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Idina Menzel on GLEE's return tonight
The wait is over! After all the speculation, waiting, and tweeting, tonight is the night all GLeeks have been waiting for. The GLEE Club misfits have found their stride as they approach Nationals in the episode, "Hell-O."
Featuring Idina Menzel, the premiere of GLEE tonight at 9:28/8:28c, after American Idol, on FOX.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
BLOG: Broadway Invades Opera (again)
by Trish Causey
New York City Opera will be invaded by vagabond gypsies from the Great White Way when Tony Award darlings Kristin Chenoweth and Raúl Esparza headline "Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz" on April 21, 2011. (Get the smelling salts for the blue-hair opera patrons!)
No strangers to making beautiful music together, Kristin and Raúl appeared in BROADWAY'S GREATEST SHOWSTOPPERS in May 2008, an event under the baton of A CHORUS LINE composer, Marvin Hamlisch. They also appeared together in the abstract, yet oh-so-fabulous-albeit-short-lived television comedy, PUSHING DAISIES.
Stephen Schwartz is the composer of such legendary shows as WICKED, GODSPELL, and PIPPIN. NYCO will be home to the Broadway composer again when it presents the New York premiere of his first opera, SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, April 19-May 1, 2011
Season subscriptions and single tickets will be available Sept. 7. Go to http://www.nycopera.com/, or call (212) 496-0600. NYCO productions are held at Lincoln Center.
Source: Playbill.com
No strangers to making beautiful music together, Kristin and Raúl appeared in BROADWAY'S GREATEST SHOWSTOPPERS in May 2008, an event under the baton of A CHORUS LINE composer, Marvin Hamlisch. They also appeared together in the abstract, yet oh-so-fabulous-albeit-short-lived television comedy, PUSHING DAISIES.
Stephen Schwartz is the composer of such legendary shows as WICKED, GODSPELL, and PIPPIN. NYCO will be home to the Broadway composer again when it presents the New York premiere of his first opera, SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, April 19-May 1, 2011
Season subscriptions and single tickets will be available Sept. 7. Go to http://www.nycopera.com/, or call (212) 496-0600. NYCO productions are held at Lincoln Center.
Source: Playbill.com
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
BLOG: Idina Menzel in Talks with GLEE (officially!)
by Trish Causey
Idina Menzel is in official talks with the powers-that-be over at GLEE, the television surprise hit about a less than gleeful band of misfits who solve teenage life's problems through singing. When the show began, fans immediately noticed the vocal and visage similarities between GLEE lead, Broadway's Lea Michele, and Broadway's reigning belting bonanza, Idina Menzel.
While the fan-generated buzz centered around Menzel playing Michele's mother, it seems the offer on the table has Menzel playing the teacher of a rival singing group, Vocal Adrenaline, at a national-level singing competition. With the central GLEE club (with Michele) heading toward Sectionals this week, the proposed nine-episode arc with Menzel could have them heading toward Nationals (which means we already know they'll win Sectionals -- bummer, all suspense is now suspended).
However, all is not lost in the sheer awesomeness department for Musical Theatre GLEEks everywhere. In fact, not having Menzel play the Mother would make for a more interesting dynamic between Menzel and Michele. A vocal battle between Idina and "Idina Jr." would be infinitely more entertaining (and skyrocket the ratings) as opposed to a Mother/Daughter storyline that might have been too sweet and sympatico for the two megaphone mouths. Imagine if Patti LuPone had gone toe to toe with Ethel Merman? Yes, this might be that big a deal.
Let the belting battle begin!
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3icfa83da3026da8be35a8e74f1f89ab5f
Idina Menzel is in official talks with the powers-that-be over at GLEE, the television surprise hit about a less than gleeful band of misfits who solve teenage life's problems through singing. When the show began, fans immediately noticed the vocal and visage similarities between GLEE lead, Broadway's Lea Michele, and Broadway's reigning belting bonanza, Idina Menzel.While the fan-generated buzz centered around Menzel playing Michele's mother, it seems the offer on the table has Menzel playing the teacher of a rival singing group, Vocal Adrenaline, at a national-level singing competition. With the central GLEE club (with Michele) heading toward Sectionals this week, the proposed nine-episode arc with Menzel could have them heading toward Nationals (which means we already know they'll win Sectionals -- bummer, all suspense is now suspended).
However, all is not lost in the sheer awesomeness department for Musical Theatre GLEEks everywhere. In fact, not having Menzel play the Mother would make for a more interesting dynamic between Menzel and Michele. A vocal battle between Idina and "Idina Jr." would be infinitely more entertaining (and skyrocket the ratings) as opposed to a Mother/Daughter storyline that might have been too sweet and sympatico for the two megaphone mouths. Imagine if Patti LuPone had gone toe to toe with Ethel Merman? Yes, this might be that big a deal.Let the belting battle begin!
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3icfa83da3026da8be35a8e74f1f89ab5f
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