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'Frozen 2' Aims to Build on Power of Original

Associated Press

   LOS ANGELES - When Idina Menzel first started performing "Let It Go"
   live in concerts, she thought the lyrics and soaring vocals would
   empower all those young girls in the audience dressed up as Elsa.

   Instead, Menzel said she often walked away from those performances
   feeling just as inspired.

   "I feel an extreme sense of pride about it," said Menzel, the Tony
   Award-winning performer who voices Elsa, a fiercely independent queen
   with the magical ability to manipulate ice and snow. The song
   especially resonated with her because at the time she was juggling
   several shows on Broadway and going through a divorce while "trying to
   put one foot in front of the other."

   "But you see a little girl in a blue dress in the second row," she
   continued. "That's when you realize the song and movie represents them.
   It's giving them permission to take ownership of who they are, and
   everything that makes them unique and different. But it's a
   reciprocity. It's coming back to me exponentially because I need to
   hear it too."

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