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Idina Menzel Talks Disney+ Documentary, A Possible Rent Revival & More
Idina Menzel is looking to get successful interaction with her roots.
Before she starred successful movies similar Disenchanted, Uncut Gems and Frozen, the Tony-winning histrion was gracing the Broadway signifier successful deed musicals specified arsenic Rent and Wicked. But erstwhile asked if she's funny successful making a Broadway comeback connected the Dec. 1 occurrence of E! News, she exclusively revealed, "Yes, of course."
Not lone would she love to instrumentality to The Great White Way, but she whitethorn bash truthful sooner than you think.
"I truly emotion originating and being a portion of processing caller material," Idina told co-hosts Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester. "I'm not gonna accidental what it is yet, but decidedly thing that I consciousness truly powerfully astir that I've helped make from its aboriginal stages."
Fans don't person to hold for Idina's upcoming stage show to spot her sing her bosom out. The 51-year-old's caller Disney+ documentary Which Way to the Stage? follows the communicative of her vocation and caller tour, culminating with her dream-fulfilling show astatine Madison Square Garden.
But according to the star, the movie is "more than conscionable your emblematic circuit documentary."
"As we went done it, it became much astir conscionable a mom, a pistillate trying to beryllium a large ma and prosecute her passionateness and each the chaos," Idina—who shares lad Walker, 13, with ex-husband Taye Diggs—explained. "And so, it's conscionable like, 'Which mode to the stage,' is much than conscionable a Rent reference. It's virtually like, 'Where the hellhole is it?'"
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Getting the accidental to sing astatine MSG was "a beauteous thing" for Idina, which is wherefore she wanted to seizure the infinitesimal successful her documentary. "The crushed I wanted to movie it was to instrumentality successful a infinitesimal similar that," the vocalist explained. "I consciousness similar we hide to bash that. We instrumentality things for granted and to conscionable beryllium contiguous successful our lives."
And she made definite to savor the infinitesimal she stepped connected stage, noting, "I really accidental it successful the documentary, 'Can I conscionable instrumentality this successful for a minute?'"
Hear much from Idina successful the afloat clip above. Catch caller episodes of E! News Mondays done Thursdays astatine 11:30 p.m. connected E!.
Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? premieres Dec. 9 connected Disney+. Disenchanted is present streaming connected Disney+.
Watch E! News Mondays done Thursdays astatine 11:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
