VIDEO: Idina Menzel Talks World Tour, Unique Song Selections, and More!

By: Jul. 05, 2015
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Idina Menzel recently took a break from rehearsing to chat with Yahoo! about her world tour. Having been on the road for a month now, she has already been amazed by the number of countries she's been able to visit and what each audience has to offer. Below, watch the superstar chat about her first leg of the tour!

She says she's keeping the shows fresh and always personal to her life, "Each song represents a time in my life or something significant.for me that I want to share with my audience. Everyone can expect songs from the shows that I've been in, but then I'll throw in some new things, things I've been playing with, songs I've always wanted to sing that nobody would have let me sing before. I just say, 'Well, screw it. I'm gonna do it anyway.'

Idina Menzel is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence when she originated the role of Maureen Johnson in the Broadway musical Rent, a role which she reprised for the 2005 feature film adaptation of the musical. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1996 for her performance in Rent. In 2004, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked. Menzel made her return to Broadway in the 2014 original musical If/Then, which earned her a nomination for the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was then honored with the Breakthrough Artist award at the 2014 Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony.

Menzel is also known for her recurring role of Shelby Corcoran on the Fox musical comedy-drama TV series Glee. This role led to a revival in Menzel's career as her name gained more recognition, leading to a two-year tour and more acting roles. These included the 2007 Disney film Enchanted which she played the role of Nancy and as the voice of Queen Elsa in Frozen. Holiday Wishes (2014), her first album in six years, reached number 6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Menzel is the only competitive Tony Award-winning actress to ever reach the top 10. Menzel began an ongoing world concert tour in May 2015.



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