Her third solo album, I Stand, was released on January 29, 2008. She is also featured in the song "For the First Time in Forever" and its reprise. The image worked for the girl so brilliantly that she was nominated for a Tony Award. Queens, New York, United States. [71] They both starred in the 2005 film adaptation of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Rent, as well as the Off-Broadway musical, See What I Wanna See. She later graduated from New York University's famed Tisch School of the Arts. She was succeeded by Elphaba standby Kerry Ellis. [34] She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut (originally on October 29, 2012). She reprised the character in the musical's 2005 film adaptation. For the latter performance, she received a 2004 Tony Award. [18], Idina changed the spelling of her surname to "Menzel" to better reflect the pronunciation that the Mentzel family had adopted in the United States. [39] On November 26, 2014, Menzel announced through her Facebook page that she would be touring during the summer of 2015, making it her first global tour and first time playing shows in Europe and Asia. Her father, Stuart Mentzel, is a Pajamas salesman, and her mother, Helen Mentzel was some kind … [19] She was friends with actor Adam Pascal before they worked together in Rent. But why pigeonhole someone so intriguingly offbeat? Her album Holiday Wishes was released in 2014 and reached number 6 on the Billboard 200. Her name is pronounced "Ih-DEE-nah men-ZELL". She has since reprised her role of Elsa in most of her appearances including video games such as the Disney Infinity series and Kingdom Hearts III,[47] the 2015 short film Frozen Fever, the 2017 featurette short film Olaf's Frozen Adventure, the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet, and for the 2019 sequel Frozen II. The injury prevented her from performing in her final show on January 9. [80], Menzel has long-championed LGBT rights by partnering with organizations like The Trevor Project,[81] the Give A Damn Campaign (filming a public service announcement[82] and designing a T-shirt[83]) and the NOH8 Campaign, posing for one of their trademark duct-taped silence photos. On September 23, 2016, Menzel announced that she and Lohr were engaged. During this camp, the girls collaborated with Broadway artists to write an original musical that was performed at a theatre in New York. [22] Menzel was replaced by Elphaba standby Shoshana Bean. Although her debut album Still I Can’t Be Still never made it to the charts, subsequent releases Here, I Stand and Holiday Wishes were warmly received by fans, and the songs were used as soundtracks for movies and TV shows. After the success of Frozen, the artist repeatedly returned to voicing Elsa, teaming up with Kristen Bell , who gave Anna a voice. The picture was highly appreciated by the audience and critics. [76], On May 17, 2009, Menzel performed at a special benefit concert in Atlanta, Georgia, to raise money for the Pace Academy Diversity Program in coordination with the Ron Clark Academy. Roger's attempts to write a song resemble "Musetta's Waltz". She is the daughter of Stuart Mentzel and Helene Mentzel.