our season ticket package to the minnesota orchestra brought us to a most amazing evening with idina menzel on friday night. we had perfect eighth-row center seats that granted us an intimate look at her gorgeous floor-length purple gown with a broach on the waist (accompanied by a dry cleaning pin that she futzed with the entire evening as it jabbed her side like a sword - i guess she knows how jebus felt now). she also did the entire concert barefoot which left the concert feel even more intimate, almost like you were lounging in her living room with while she sang some tunes for you... with a full orchestra behind her.
she sang a diverse repertoire that highlited her days in rent and wicked as well as poker face from her recent stint on glee. i loved that she had such an amazing mix of generational love in the room from the gen x'ers (rent) to the gen y'ers (wicked) and the millennials (glee). each group got their ear-full of wonderful memories and more than their share of misty eyes - of course, though, the gen x'ers were the luckiest out of the bunch being able to fully appreciate her talent in all ranges of her career.
perhaps the most unexpected part of the evening was her gut-wrenching humor. she told stories that made you want to shit your pants you were laughing so hard and her interaction with the sign language interpreter was priceless; complaining that the word 'bitch' deserved a better sign and wondering how he was going to sign 'breast feeding' and 'muffin' (yes, THAT kind of muffin).
there are lots of videos popping-up online of the performance, some good and some bad (none with as good of seats as we had) but they're a pretty good recap of the wonderful experience.
oh, and yes, she ended the concert, appropriately, with defying gravity = )
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