{"id":16395,"date":"2014-06-20T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=16395"},"modified":"2014-06-20T01:04:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T07:04:23","slug":"jewish-frozen-star-idina-menzel-recording-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jewish-frozen-star-idina-menzel-recording-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish &#8216;Frozen&#8217; star Idina Menzel recording Christmas album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Jewish Broadway performer Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa in Disney&#8217;s animated film &#8220;Frozen,&#8221; is recording a Christmas album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m Jewish,\u201d she said Wednesday night during a performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York, \u201cbut a lot of famous Jewish people have written Christmas songs, so I\u2019m going to try and have a lot of their songs on the album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menzel performed an original song for the album &#8220;December Prayer,&#8221; according to Broadway.com.<\/p>\n<p>Currently starring in the Broadway musical &#8220;If\/Then,&#8221; Menzel was a recurring character on the television show &#8220;Glee&#8221; and starred in the original Broadway run of &#8220;Wicked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%20%20Jewish%20%27Frozen%27%20star%20Idina%20Menzel%20recording%20Christmas%20album\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5577,5576,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16396,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}