The Voice of Disney’s “Let It Go” (Idina Menzel)
Performed at Jay Pritzker Pavilion August 16, 2015
Story and photos
by Dan Locke
How many times have you heard the song
“Let It Go”? I am sure if you have kids,
between the ages of 5 and 17, you have heard it at least 10,000 times. And I was wondering? Can Idina
Menzel sing anything else beside that?
Is she a true one hit wonder?
These are questions we all ask ourselves. Especially since tickets went on sell for her
concert almost 9 months in advance. And
they range from $25 to $125 per ticket.
Her performance was showing all the signs that she was a one hit wonder
and Live Nation was just in it for the money.
So on the day of her show I had my photo pass and ticket and
I was ready to see what Ms. Menzel
had to offer the audience. It was at Jay Pritzker Pavilion which whole 11,000
people. In the $125 seats it was mostly adults.
And the families were sitting on the lawn ($25 area). And
once she come out, I could see that she is more, then I was thinking she was.
She had a full 20 piece orchestra. Her
lighting and sound equipment was the best money could buy. And she also had backup in case something
happen to it. She is very big in the
world of Broadway. And that what people
over 17 years old come to hear. She is
no new coming. She has been around for
over 20 year. Beside Disney she had
worked on Fox’s Glee done many movies and a ton of Broadway. Her first Broadway play was “Rent” where she
originated the role of Maureen Johnson (1996). Won a Tony for “Wicked” and last
year she was with the Breakthrough Artist Award at the Billboard Women in Music
Awards. And another Tony for The Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a
Musical for If/Then. She has a ton of
talent running in her veins. So after
photographing Idina I sit back just listening to her performance. She perform the following songs:
Defying Gravity
Don’t Rain on my Parade
Brave
I stand
The Wizard and I
River
Love For Sale/Roxanne
Ethel Merman Medley
Still I Can’t Be Still
Creep
Take Me or Leave Me
No Day But Today
Always Starting Over
For Good (a cappella)
Let It Go
Encore:
Child
Tomorrow
During Let It Go she had the audience sing with her. And told them stop and she need little people
up on stage with her. So about 50 kids
come to her and she sit in the middle of the kids and had the Kids sing the
song the way it meant to sound it.
The nice thing was before each song she would talk about
the song, the meaning of the song in her life and why she picked it. It was nice to hear the background of each
song. How her life had developed as a performer.
In closing she loves Chicago, and to be able to play
outside in the middle downtown Chicago with all of the city sound. It was a wonderful thing. And I feel it was a honor to heard her
perform. I am not a big Broadway Musical
type of guy. But I give the whole event
2 thumbs up.
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