Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always

for clicking and listening along. Got a really good one for you this week with Tony winning actress

and singer Adina Menzel. Many of you may have picked up Adina in 2013 when a little movie

called Frozen came out. She of course played Elsa, the big sister,

to Kristen Bell's little sister in that film that was one of the highest grossing animated

films in the history of movies and of course spun off the song Let It Go, sung by Adina

Menzel. But she had a long successful career before that. She grew up in

New York's Long Island, dreaming of being a singer, all she wanted to be. She sang at bar mitzvahs.

She sang at weddings. She did whatever she could and then started coming into New York City,

often to a little spot down in the village called

The Bitter End.

And that's where we got together for our sit-down.

That's where you hear us talking.

Small stage, small room, but a lot of big names have come in there and played.

It's where she started hustling and learning how to sing to a crowd and trying to make

a name for herself.

She eventually auditioned for and won a role in a new

musical at the time in the 90s called Rent. Seasons of Change, all of it. She was nominated for

a Tony and that show became huge. From there, she got a part in Wicked for that role as Elfaba,

the Wicked Witch of the West, she won the Tony Award.

And she became, many people believe, the queen of Broadway.

She is a goddess on Broadway.

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