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Idina Menzel's Tony performance
#100Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 7:05pmI watched it again and thought she was fantastic. I do think this musical ended up hitting a wee bit to close to home, and I can imagine some nights these songs are better than therapy. I just hope she is enjoying all of the accolades (I didn't expect her to win, but wanted her to nail the performance, which she did) and takes it all in. I also hope she is able to move on from Taye and find someone new. If the rumors are true, she deserves better.
#101Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 7:32pm
"I consider her shouting because I perceive her to be mistaking volume for emotional intensity. Her performance was very, very bombastic, but not at all moving. So "shouting" is a substitution of "sing louder!" instead of "tell more story!" She is an incredible singer, and a very underwhelming actor"
would that then be more of an acting choice, rather than singing technique...?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#102Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 7:36pmWas Merman ever described as a great actor? We all know about her singing.
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#103Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 8:20pm
Idina sounded much better at the show! I saw it Friday (6/6)..
The number is a show stopper. It was wonderful. The Tony performance did not do the show justice at all. (This comment is coming from a pretty tough critic).
#104Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 8:31pmComing from another tough critic, I think it did the show justice. A matter of opinion I guess.
Just give the world Love.
#105Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 9:23pm
would that then be more of an acting choice, rather than singing technique...?
That's a fair assessment. I'd be more willing to see Menzel in concert than in a show.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#106Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 9:33pm
I like her voice but her acting is still awful. She couldn't ground herself if someone nailed her to the stage, her pacing back and forth once she reaches a spot drives me insane! And she still does those awkwardly unjustified arm movements in order to give her body something to do.
She is a good musician with a nice presence but she should polish her acting basics.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
getlucky2
Understudy Joined: 3/26/14
#107Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 9:47pm
"For a performance that wasn't moving...a lot of people seemed to have been moved by it lol"
Exactly.
getlucky2
Understudy Joined: 3/26/14
#108Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 9:50pm
"I like her voice but her acting is still awful. She couldn't ground herself if someone nailed her to the stage, her pacing back and forth once she reaches a spot drives me insane! And she still does those awkwardly unjustified arm movements in order to give her body something to do.
She is a good musician with a nice presence but she should polish her acting basics. "
LOL @ Idina Menzel not being able to act. What a crock of crap. Idina's acting was amazing in If/Then and it's what got her her THIRD Tony nomination. I really am dying laughing at the idea that Idina freaking Menzel needs acting 101!!!!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#109Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 10:21pmLOL ur right lol @tony nomination lol sillyme shes practically HelenHuys Lansbry lololololol
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#110Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 10:24pmHaving seen all five nominated performances this year, there wasn't a doubt in my mind that Idina was the least impressive in her show. I've discussed my opinions of the Best Actress contenders this year in other threads, but impressively belting does not a layered performance make.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#111Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 10:30pm
Having seen all five nominated performances this year, there wasn't a doubt in my mind that Idina was the least impressive in her show. I've discussed my opinions of the Best Actress contenders this year in other threads, but impressively belting does not a layered performance make.
Did you not read that her THREE TONY NOMINATIONS practically make her Meryl Streep's b***h?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#112Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 10:45pm
Here's her conductor conducting her from a Radio City bathroom during her performance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Dva_BCTjI#t=169
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#113Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 10:58pmGreat video.
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Theatrefan2
Stand-by Joined: 2/23/13
#114Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 11:03pmI found it a one note belt performance. All belting all the time.
#115Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 11:11pmI also thought there was too much belting.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#116Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 11:35pmI do admit the cut of the song made the number suffer. They skipped the intro, we lost pretty much an entire verse and chorus. The song normally has a slow (and very thrilling) build, but it just skipped right to the second chorus and the bigger part of the song. So I guess I don't disagree that it felt a little bombastic and belty, but I think it was the cut more than anything.
#117Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/9/14 at 11:48pm
Honestly, this was the best I have ever seen her perform on television. While I am a huge Idina fan, I am always concerned after watching her on TV because she always seems nervous and misses the money notes. Here she seemed comfortable and ready to present her character, which I think she did wonderfully.
A really great performance, in my opinion.
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#118Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 1:55am
Oh-Em-Gee. I can't stand when people get on here and bug about who missed what performance, and when, and why. People are human. They get sick. They get exhausted. They get hurt and fall halfway through and need their understudy, as Idina did during her first run in "Wicked" years ago.
The performers on the Tony's last night probably missed a show or two this weekend to prepare for the dang awards show, and probably got to take today off, too. So that they *don't* risk getting sick or exhausted after such a taxing extra-curricular activity. Egads. Do you want people bugging about how, and when, and why *you* miss work? It's because you're a human with only one body and sometimes it isn't 100%. And please don't start in on "people are paying good money to see this or that person." Yeah, that's true. But they get sick days in their contracts. And so do you, most likely, if you're working full-time in this country. And your employer pays good money for you to show up, too--we hope, but that's another topic. They all budget for it. And that's why they *have* understudies. So can't we just be human about this stuff?
On another note, I saw Idina at House of Blues in Chicago on one of her more intimate tours, and she was lovely. Obviously much less pressure than these televised performances to millions, she's been doing lately. One story she told, that has stuck with me, was when, in her early success in "RENT's" early days, she discovered that her sister wanted to be a singer too, but just wasn't as lucky as she had been, for whatever reason. She had gotten married and had a baby instead. She said of her sister, "she was singing a lullaby to the baby, and she just has the MOST BEAUTIFUL voice." A lovely tribute.
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
Updated On: 6/10/14 at 01:55 AM
NeverSoShy
Understudy Joined: 10/8/11
#119Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 5:20am
Here's a video from the dress rehearsal. She did sound fantastic in the actual performance, but I think she sounds a little better here without the pressure of live television.
Rehearsal Video
Updated On: 6/10/14 at 05:20 AM
jets
Swing Joined: 12/26/08
#120Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 8:58am
Hilarious article by Roger Friedman on Menzel's use of a teleprompter (with "HUGE" letters) at the Tony Awards. What a scandal!!
Menzel Uses Teleprompter!
#121Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 9:25amEveryone jumping all over her for belting. I'm thinking maybe the music was writtn that way so maybe throw some of the " blame" on the writers. Look what their music did to another actress's voice. Just my thoughts and opinion.
Just give the world Love.
#122Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 9:44am^ THIS!! While I really enjoy their work, their score basically destroyed Alice Ripley's voice (which was declining to begin with) and IF/THEN's score is even more demanding.
#123Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 9:54am
"Hilarious article by Roger Friedman on Menzel's use of a teleprompter (with "HUGE" letters) at the Tony Awards. What a scandal!! "
THE HORRORS OF USING A PROMPTER WHEN YOUR SONG HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY RE-ARRANGED.
HOW VERY DARE SHE.
#124Idina Menzel's Tony performance
Posted: 6/10/14 at 10:13amI wouldn't mind the belting if she convinced me there was a reason in the story for it... This show sounded like it was written primarily for her to belt the ever-living crap out of it first, and then they tried to fill out some story ideas around the premise of maximum-beltitude.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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