Den Boer 8C LA 15 May, 2014 Idina Menzel Nominated for Tony Award for Best Performance for Featured Actress in a Musical, and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. Awarded Tony Award Best Performance for Featured Actress in a Musical, Audience Award for Best Lead Actress, Best Diva Performance, Best Onstage Pair with Kristin Chenoweth (Idina Menzel, Wikipedia). These are just a few of the achievements in the music and acting world that Idina Menzel has accomplished. Idina’s
“Alone shall fight for me, struggle for life against the monster, God must decide who will be given to death’s cold grip. Grendel’s plan, I think, will be what it has been before, to invade this hall and gorge his belly with our bodies.” (Lines 268-273) This quote was said by Beowulf a little while before he fought Grendal. This quote shows that Beowulf is ready to risk his life to save his people from a monster that has killed many people. He does this throughout this epic; fighting battles with
Listening to the way the music moves a storyline along in a musical brings me back to when I was nine years old and first saw the musical Wicked, featuring Idina Menzel; there’s three songs that stuck out so much with the emotion “No Good Deed,” “Defying Gravity,” and “For Good” these songs have been my all-time favorite since the first time seeing it. In many musicals the music tells the story throughout the whole thing with very little dialogue. The musical Wicked is one of many excellent musicals
Idina Menzel: Pop Queen, Broadway Star, award-winning actress, and mother. Idina has starred in the movie Rent, won the Tony Award for her role as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, played Rachel Berry’s mother in Glee, and voiced Elsa in Frozen. On top of all of this she just came out with her 9th Album, iconically named Idina. The star says that this album is, “The most personal, introspective album I’ve made.” The way that she shows her emotion and tells her story through her music and words
premiered on 27 November 2013, and melted the hearts of its audience. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Frozen displays a relationship between two sisters which is strained due to a secret that should not be revealed. The eldest sister Elsa (Idina Menzel), discovers her powers to freeze anything that is touched. Anna (Kristen Bell) is trying to remain in the public eye, while Elsa wants to shield her powers from everyone, including her own sister. Elsa then flees from Arendelle, after causing a
Like in the song Don’t Rain on My Parade sang by Lea Michele says, “I know what I want and I’ve got the perseverance to do it and nothing is going to stand in my way.” Then it says “And if I'm fanned out Your turn at bat, sir At least I didn't fake it Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it But whether I'm the rose Of sheer perfection Or freckle on the nose Of life's complexion The cinder or the shiny apple of its eye I gotta fly once I gotta try once Only can die once, right, sir?” This song tells me
“Let it go,” In the frozen Disney movie. The song writers behind this theme song are Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez When in the process of composing this song Robert Lopez and Kristen Lopez took under consideration the vocal range of Idina Menzel during composition. They took their inspirations from other Disney films such as the little mermaid and beauty and the beast together with some of the contemporary artists such as Lady Gaga and Adele. The theme song of frozen is played at the
Frozen is one of the best animated movie Disney made since “Lion King”. This film is the story about the emotional connection between two sisters Anna and Elsa. Elsa is born with magical powers, anything she touches or point towards turn into ice. Because of that she had locked herself in a small room to control it. Then there is Princess Anna who is young, innocence and enthusiast. On the coronation day Queen Elsa accidentally freezes the kingdom, runs away far from her kingdom and leaves it in
Exploring the Sustainability of American Musical Theatre “Musical theatre isn’t some ancient, dusty, irrelevant invalid; it is, right now, a thriving, vigorous art form”. This statement by Miller (2007, p. 8) suggests that American musical theatre is still alive and abundant in today’s society. This essay seeks to support this claim by using three aspects of the ‘ecosystems of music’ framework (Schipper, 2009) to determine if musical theatre does indeed prosper in modern society. Specifically, this
they connect with our hearts. Disney songs are catchy. No matter what, even if you hate how annoying the tune or lyric is, it’s almost impossible to forget. The most well known, is Disney’s 2013 movie ‘Frozen’ with the song ‘Let It Go’ sung by Idina Menzel. At first people went crazy for this song when it first came
internalising societies assumptions about what constitute the expected norms and ideals of female beauty’ (Smith. S. 2005. P. 57) A modern look at this interpretation of Funny Girl is through the hit TV show Glee. With guest stars like Broadway’s own Idina Menzel, it is more accessible to see modern “musicals” ‘We’re raising a generation of Broadway Babies’ (Kamp. D in Wolf. S, 2011, P. 238) – musical theatre nerd is cool and acceptable and the ‘Glee Generation’ (2010) ultimately attracted new musical theatre
On November 27, 2013 the world changed forever. Disney released its most recent princess movie with the new Snow Queen. Yes, you guessed it. Frozen took the world by storm and had everyone singing its hit “Let it Go”. With over 5 million views on YouTube and being the #1 best selling album of 2014, Frozen’s “Let it Go” was a hit with most people. Kids and parents everywhere were singing the song, I was too, even though I had not seen the movie yet. “Let it Go” is available in over 25 different languages
Lana was crying over a song that came on her phone. It all began the previous summer. Lana, being a huge Broadway enthusiast, saved up enough money to buy tickets for BroadwayCon, which was a Broadway convention. There were no words that could describe how ecstatic she felt as she entered the building. Show tunes filled the air. To her right, Patti Lupone was signing autographs. To her left, they were selling Broadway merchandise. Up ahead, Lin-Manuel Miranda was performing “My Shot” from Hamilton
As the younger generation gets closer and closer to college age, we wonder where we are going to go or if we even want to attend. People always tell you that education is important and you will use this knowledge throughout your entire life, so when choosing a college it’s important that you choose a very educational school. For those reasons New York University was an amazing choice for me. New York University, also known as Violet, has it’s ups and downs of being located in such an urban area
It is often difficult to determine exactly what aspect of a movie pushes it the extra steps that take it from a well-received film to becoming a timeless classic. People base their idea of a film’s success on a wide variety of factors, from box office success and critical reception to how many awards it won, if any. One company that is no stranger to success on any level is Disney, and the people at Disney are especially well-versed in putting out animated features that do well not only in the box
RENT the Musical There's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the '90s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers' quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It's the signal for an "AZT break," and suddenly they realize that they're both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational
love for the main female character. Instead it built two strong female lead characters while focusing on the importance of sisterhood. Frozen is the tale of Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) embarking on a journey to find her sister, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), after she goes into hiding when her powers cast an everlasting winter in their town, Arendelle. Frozen was inspired by the 1844 fairy tale by Hans Chris... ... middle of paper ... ...es to show how strong the bond between Elsa and Anna was
There are 3,679,200 minutes in seven years. That is 365 weeks or 2,665 days. There is a myriad of things that can occur in that time. An extraordinary musical was made in that period. It transformed the musical community and changed lives. That musical is Rent and it was written by an equally inspiriting man named Johnathon Larson. Rent earned its high acclaim and 12 year run on Broadway due to Johnathon and his team of people. These individuals were all dedicated to making a musical that was moving
How does the idea of superficial love for one’s self-interest conquer idealistic love? Every 13 seconds, couples in America get divorced (Palacios). What is pushing these couples to get married if half of the marriages fail anyway? Leading into the 21st century, people decide to choose the single life over the married life, and use their energy and time towards rebounding, money, material love, power, freedom, pride, and their career. Superficial love often conquers idealistic love in today’s society