
A high-wattage stage player by trade, Menzel sings more powerfully than Barbra Streisand, who inaugurated this grand tradition of quirky dramatists singing about Christmas. Menzel has starred most notably in Rent (1996), in which she played a radical lesbian, and Wicked (2003), in which she played a radical witch. Menzel's "Silent Night" just put me to sleep.įor those unaware: Idina Menzel is the Broadway musical darling who does vaguely seem like she's a big sister to Glee's Lea Michele. Seems we'll have to make due with Idina Menzel, the Broadway Bully, whose 2014 collection of Christmastime covers betrays no hint that she's actually Jewish, just like the baby king Jesus himself.



Holiday Mariah is, apparently, out of commission.
