Idina Menzel Talks World Tour & Reveals 'I've Been Working on a New Album'!

Speaking with reporters during a pre-tour conference call on her World Tour, Idina Menzel revealed the news that a new album is already in the works.

"I've been working on a new album," Menzel told reporters. "I'm in that process of just being in the writing stages and recording with producers and songwriters that really inspire me. There's not much to say other than that I feel creative and I'm sort of putting my heart out there and exploring different sounds and things like that. I'm not limiting myself. I'm just doing what I feel in my heart and then I'll see if there's somewhat of a theme or a trend going on and then I'll pick the songs that tell that story. But I'm not there yet. Right now I'm just doing music that I love."

Speaking on the challenge of appeasing audiences from a wide demographic during her current World Tour, Menzel comments, "Between Rent and Wicked and evenGlee and now Frozen, I've always had to figure out how to negotiate, navigate around a wide demographic -- which is obviously a very lucky thing, a gift, but also can be tricky. I'm a 43-year-old woman up there on stage and I curse, I swear about something and then I realize that's a mom in the front row with her little 8-year-old daughter in an Elsa costume. But I have to be myself, too. That's a challenging thing is how I reconcile all of that."

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Menzel rose to prominence when she originated the role of Maureen Johnson in the hit Broadway musical Rent, a role which she reprised for the 2005 feature film adaptation of the musical. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1996 for her performance in Rent.

In 2004, she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Elphaba in the blockbuster Broadway musicalWicked. She made her return to Broadway in the 2014 musical If/Then. She is currently a nominee for the 2014 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance.

Menzel is also known for her recurring role of Shelby Corcoran on the musical comedy-drama television series Glee, the 2007 Disney movie Enchanted and as THE VOICE of Elsa the Snow Queen in the 2013 Disney animated film Frozen, which is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, in which she sang the Academy Award-winning song "Let It Go". The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Solo albums include Barefoot At The Symphony (a live recording of her PBS special by the same name), I Stand, Here, and Still I Can't Be Still. She recently starred in If/Then at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Source: Billboard.com