Watch: Idina Menzel Sings at Last in Unearthed Deleted Scene From Disney's Enchanted | Playbill

Video Watch: Idina Menzel Sings at Last in Unearthed Deleted Scene From Disney's Enchanted

The Wicked Tony winner sings the title song in a scene from the 2007 release left on the cutting room floor.

A deleted song from Disney's 2007 movie musical Enchanted has been unearthed, also revealing that Idina Menzel was intended to have a song. The Wicked Tony winner co-stars as Nancy, girlfriend to Patrick Dempsey's Robert Philip, who gets jilted when he falls for Amy Adams as Giselle, an animated Disney-style princess who is magically transported to real-world NYC.

As originally released, Nancy ends up falling for James Marsden as Prince Edward, Giselle's cartoon-world love interest who follows her to NYC to save her as if she was an old-school damsel in distress. That bookend to the plot plays out almost as an epilogue to the main story, happening pretty quickly after Giselle has defeated the evil Queen Narissa and settled into a happily ever after with Robert. This newly unearthed scene reveals that the Nancy-Prince Edward subplot was originally intended to be a more fleshed-out moment, complete with a title song. It looks like filmmakers ultimately decided to have the movie get to the credits a little faster than this number would have allowed.

The scene is also notable in that it proves Menzel was to have sung in the film. The Broadway favorite was left songless in the eventual final version of the movie, which may have left more than a few Broadway fans clutching their pearls. Of course, Disney more than made it up to Menzel casting her as the voice of Elsa in Frozen, which had her singing into the rafters.

Watch Menzel and Marsden sing "Enchanted" above.

The songs of Enchanted, which also include such Oscar-nominated titles as "Happy Working Song," "That's How You Know," and "So Close," feature music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, the same songwriting team behind Disney's Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A sequel, Disenchanted, was released on streamer Disney+ in 2022.

 
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