Idina Menzel

I truly love Idina Menzel. Truly truly. Everything about her. She's awesomely awesome, in so many ways.
I love her name, first of all. Apparently it used to be Idina Mentzel, but she changed it because no one could pronounce it. But seriously. Idina Menzel is an awesome name.
I love how she looks. She's so pretty it's scary. I covet her face.
I love her voice. She's an awesome singer with an amazing range. And her voice, her beautiful voice, is so individual. You can recognize it easily, not like one of those dime-a-dozen "singers" who all sound the same. I wish I could sing like her.
I love what she does. She's an actress and a singer and does musical theatre. She has my dream life. I want it. It's miiiiiiiiiiiiine.
I love the parts I've seen her play in musicals. Actually, I've never seen Wicked, but I feel like I have. She was Elphaba in Wicked. I love Elphaba. Such a good singer, such an awesome (but tragic) character. So real, and yet so fantasy-ish. And Maureen- now, I don't really like Maureen herself. She's a bitch. But I love her voice, I love her looks, and I love the fact that Idina has the stuff to MAKE people not like Maureen. It's hard, really, to make your character into someone the audience can hate.
I love how she is to her fans. So nice. She treats them like equals. Like friends. In her letters and stuff to all her random fans that read her website, she talks to them like they're her best friends ever. Like her fellow cast members or something. Puts up all the stage-door photos and stuff on her website. She loves them. In her dressing room she keeps fan letters- there was this one from some tiny little girl- "Dear Elphaba... I thought it was sad how you thought you weren't pretty..." blah blah blah. Something cute and stupid and little-kid-ish. She had it framed. Framed!
I love how she writes. She'll write these letters and put them up on her website for her fans to read. She makes them seem so personal, it's like she's talking to YOU, and YOU're her special friend who matters enough for her to write to YOU. And she loves YOU. YOU keep her going. YOU matter. It's amazing, feeling like YOU matter to someone who's so awesome, so way out of YOUr league, someone that so many people know about, someone who matters.
I love her husband. Not really. I think he's cool, though. Taye Diggs, who plays Benny in Rent. There's another character you love to hate. Taye has some mad skill to make Benny such an asshole. They met doing Rent when it was still on Broadway.
And finally, I love her website. http://idinamenzel.com/ That's it... go read it. It's so awesome... even the loading screen with the little sunflower is awesome. And it just gets awesomer. It makes you feel so close to her... Like, you read it, then you think of Elphaba, and it's like, Whoa, that's my friend. Playing Elphaba. And not just any Elphaba. THE Elphaba of all Elphabas. The official Elphaba. The beautiful, tragic, caring-but-un-cared-for Elphaba. The misunderstood Elphaba, who defies gravity in the most beautiful voice ever to come out of someone painted green.