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Why New Musicals Are Idina Menzel’s Proudest Accomplishments
The Tony-winning Broadway favorite takes listeners on a tour of her dressing room and shares what projects make her proudest.
The two of them enlisted composer and Broadway newcomer Kate Diaz to help them tell the story of Jessie, a woman who flees her life on the east coast — and the tragedy that haunts her — to find healing among the redwood trees of northern California. “Redwood,” which opened on Broadway in February, comes at a time when both “Rent” and “Wicked,” two properties closely associated with Menzel, have circled back into the zeitgeist. The whole experience of “Rent,” and the sudden loss of Larson just as his show was about to make its Off Broadway premiere, “really laid down a very specific foundation and set a principle to me, for what was important in this career I was choosing and what really matters,” she added.
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