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[Interview with Idina Menzel : raw footage]
- Title
- [Interview with Idina Menzel : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Publication
- New York, 2003.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (17 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel discusses her role as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked is loosely based on Gregory Maguire's best selling novel Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West. Menzel speaks about rehearsing for the show's upcoming New York opening at the George Gershwin Theatre; her fears about the show; and her experience in San Francisco where she recently completed three weeks of tryouts with the production. There Menzel gained confidence in her abilities as a performer, and in her role as the witch Elphaba, and bonded with her co-star Kristen Chenoweth, who plays Glinda. Menzel speaks of her chemistry with Chenoweth, and her experience of being part of a group creating an original theatrical work, as she was in her first professional job as a cast member of the musical Rent. Menzel speaks about the impact of the death of Rent's composer Jonathan Larson just before the show's first Off-Broadway preview, and how she and the other actors and crew responded to it. She speaks about Rent's Broadway success; her future plans and aspirations; and lastly, what she loves and admires about her character Elphaba.
- Alternative Title
- Broadway, the American musical
- Idina Menzel
- Subjects
- Musicals
- Actresses > Interviews
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Schwartz, Stephen > Wicked
- Menzel, Idina > Interviews
- Larson, Jonathan > Rent
- Musical theater > Production and direction
- Unedited footage
- Documentaries and factual works
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and factual works.
- Musicals.
- Unedited footage.
- Note
- This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
- Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
- Time code on frame.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Idina Menzel.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 2003.
- Biography (note)
- Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
- Call Number
- NCOX 2171
- OCLC
- 154207915
- Title
- [Interview with Idina Menzel : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Imprint
- New York, 2003.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Idina Menzel.
- Event
- Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 2003.
- Biography
- Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
- Local Note
- Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Menzel, Idina, interviewee.Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.Thirteen/WNET, donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2171