Four Idina Menzel clips, downloaded from idina-here.com. They say: 1) description: referring to a job she had working as a waitress during college
dialogue: [Seth:] "Now, rumor has it, according to our Bartender's menu that you are the 'spirit of New York'... take off your heels - is that true?" [Idina:] "Yes, actually, Lenny taught me how to be a good waitress! *laughs* He taught me how to whip the little people into line!! *laughs louder!* He told me, um, wait I've told this story... 'Cause old people are really mean to you on those things. And if you lecture them and you speak to them firmly, then they get really nice, so instead of being all 'Oh, I'm so sorry!' to ... *like angry old people* 'I said DECAF instead of caffeinated!!' You say *firmly* 'Ma'am! I'm working very HARD here! No you calm down and you give me a minute!' And then they say 'Oh, I'm so sorry!!'" , 2) description: while Seth shows a video of Idina to analyze her amazing riffs, Idina yells stuff from the back!
dialogue: [Seth:] "Ok, so here's a little clip of the chick we're about to talk with. I just, I love the flexibility of the riffing, so I'm just gonna show you a little clip, and then say a little phrase... about the flexibility. Ok, this is from a benefit we did for the Christopher Reeves Paralysis Foundation. *pauses and watches screen* I don't hear any RIFFING and/or sound!" [Idina:] "Big TITS though!" *laughing* [Seth:] "... Idina's heckling herself!!" , 3) description: talking about her resume before auditioning for Rent in 1995
dialogue: [Seth:] "What did you have on your resume?" [Idina:] "I had LIES on my resume... I had a teacher at Circle on the Square who said 'If you haven't done it -- If you CAN do it... put it on!' So that if they ask you, um... If they ask you if you've ever done it, you can say 'No... But I could do it really well!'"
, 4) description: asking about the changes to The Wild Party
dialogue: [Seth:] "But what about that song - When I saw the workshop of The Wild Party, "Raise the Roof"... your character sang "Raise the Roof", when was that given to Julia?" [Idina:] "I don't know, they did so many--I mean, I found out that they used to have like, people in body-bags at the end singing "Life of the Party" to like... a DEATH march! Like *deep, manly voice* 'Dontcha wanna be. The life of the party.'" [Seth:] "Really?" [Idina:] "Like Burrs and Black were dead and... like weird things." [Seth:] "Yeah, but I thought that she was electrocuted!... It was a TOTAL downer! At the very last beat or two, it was just 'BUM! BUM! Electrocution!!"
Tags: Idina Menzel The Wild Party College Waitress RENT Riffs Seth
