Idina Menzel returns to Broadway with Redwood.

Last fall, when Superstar IDINA MENZEL was not in New York, she spent time in Auckland, California. In Bandaloop Studios, she was learning how to hang at the end of the line. There are many dancers on the ground. “I don’t know what I’m doing!” She shouted.

But look exactly why She was doing this and suddenly everything made it.

In the new Broadway musical ‘Redwood’, the audience will move to the center of the Red Wood Forest, and on the outside of the tree itself. This work was roughly inspired by a woman named Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in the forest for more than two years to prevent cedar in the late 90’s. Her effort was effective. The tree is saved.

And now, Menzel, writer and director, Tina Landau, have a leap with their own beliefs with the ideas that have been considered for more than 10 years.

When asked if he had been worried that the experiment would fail, Landau said, “Yes, I’m still worried. I didn’t know. But it was one of the passionate projects for both and IDINA. Believe that what is going to happen will happen.”

‘Redwood’ is a work that depicts Walker Holic’s mother, who has fled from everything, to change her life forever in the Red Wood Forest.

One of the topics of the show is based on the fact that 300 feet high cedar actually supports each other. Landau said, “Their roots are only 5-6 feet into the ground. The roots extend to the side, not below until they reach the roots of other trees, and are intertwined with the roots of other trees. We will hold each other.

Click the video player below to listen to the “Great Escape” performance in the musical “Redwood” of IDINA MENZEL.

The current musical is a completely new work, but Menzel is a familiar position. She is performing at the Netherlander Theater, the theater that released “Rent” in 1996. It was my first job and Broadway show. So I was really lucky. It was a beautiful time in my life. “

that It was ~ beautiful. She was 25 years old, and her acting at “Rent” was proudly put on the map as he was nominated for Tony. “I have always signed a record contract that I wanted to receive,” she said. “I signed a contract with a record label and wanted to make my own album, and it was a dream, but the album was sold only three chapters, so I fell from the record label, and then at that time in the hit musical ‘Rental’ All the momentum as an actress who was nominated for Tony has disappeared.

Menzel, who played the original Wicked Witch Elphaba in Broadway’s “Wicked”, helped to win the Tony Award and make this show a big hit. But maintaining an eco -friendly appearance was not always easy. When asked what Elpava gave her, Menzel replied, “I can have green ears for the rest of my life.”

IDINA MENZEL performs “Defying Gravity” of “Wicked” in “The Late Show with David Letterman”.

And she appeared as an animation princess in Disney’s Winter Kingdom, sang by millions of princess inquirers who could not leave her head. She said, “The relationship with ‘Let It is really fantastic.” “It’s one of the best things that happened to me. People always ask, ‘Are you tired of such a song?’ And maybe they may think I’m lying to you, but it’s not.”

Idina Menzel, who plays Elsa in the movie ‘Winter Kingdom’, sang ‘Let it go’.

“When I was a young girl, I wouldn’t have believed if I had dreamed of singing this song above. No, no, I am. It will be ~ Because when I was young, I was really cheating, and I believed in myself and thought that it would happen to me. “

However, the mission of composing Menzel’s next masterpiece was left to the next person. absoluteness It is written for the famous star of Broadway (or anyone). “Redwood” is the first performance of composer Kate Diaz, but you will never know. When asked what it was like to write in IDINA MENZEL, Diaz said, “It’s amazing. It’s a good place to start because I haven’t written for others before. It’s a amazing voice to write.” Said.

I asked, “Let’s see that part of you can do it. ‘ this’? “

“I mean, she usually can.” Diaz replied. “So, not.”

And she can do it as needed, as she demonstrated in the new “Wicked” film that brought his classic vocal riff again.

Her new show presents a different way to go green. It is to immerse in the lush red wood forest. The newly remodeled Netherlander’s seats are also green. In the case of menzel, it is hard to believe. “It is very rare to see the fruit after a few years later. As we say, they are literally loading things in nederlander. The achievement does not disappear from me, and it is just too emotional about it.

And now she hopes to go against gravity again. “But I think it’s going to be a literally or figurative flying and flew, so I think I have to react or pull it in my life and character,” Menzel laughed. “And I am a little satisfied!”

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The story produced by John D’Amelio. Editor: Stephen Tyler.