The original cast album of the new Broadway musical If/Then (Masterworks Broadway), which stars "Let It Go" singer Idina Menzel and Anthony Rapp, debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #19, the first cast album to do so well in its first week in 18 years.
The last one was Rent, which entered the chart at the same position back in 1996. That show also starred Menzel and Rapp--and was originally directed by Michael Greif, who helmed If/Then too.
You could even say Idina Menzel has scored a (witch's)-hat trick, ruling the "airwaves" in three consecutive decades. Wicked, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary on Broadway, generated the best-selling cast album of the decade of the 2000s, featuring the voices of Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.
The voice of Frozen's "Queen Elsa" made her name on Broadway in Rent, receiving a Tony nomination. She ascended to the theatrical firmament as Elphaba in Wicked, winning a Tony Award in the process.
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