Idina Menzel has a lot going on these days between the Frozen attention, If/Then NYC preparations and ongoing divorce to husband of ten years Taye Diggs, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have time to reflect on the role that so closely mirrors the events in her own life. Idina also admits that it can be difficult dealing with overwhelming expectations that her new overwhelming fame brings with it.
Idina Menzel seems to be sitting on top of the world right now with her Tony awards, her Oscar winning performances and her money making musicals; until you remember this is a women who is dealing with a decades long marriage ending and the anguish that brings.
Menzel's hasn't failed to notice the parallels between the Broadway musical she just started her about a women who moves to NYC after her marriage dissolves and her own life.
Idina told the NY Times that it was impossible to do anything with her feeling other than pour than into her performance:
"You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on...It just doesn't go."
Aside from all the internal issues the material brings up, Menzel also finds herself dealing with the pressures of people's expectations.
Menzel told the NY Times that she feels if she can't always deliver on the powerful sound that her new audiences have come to expect form her, she might lose them:
"There's an insecurity that if I don't show that, people won't like me...Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes?
"I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics."
Yeah...she's god d**m Idina Menzel.
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