Idina Menzel celebrates Adele Dazeem’s 10th birthday
It’s been ten years John Travolta created accidentally Idina Menzel‘s alter ego.
Officially, a decade has passed since Travolta, 70, infamously ruined Menzel, 52, at the 2014 Oscars when he called her “Adele Dazeem” while introducing her on stage. In a humorous video shared via TikTok and her Instagram Story on Saturday, March 2, Menzel wished Adele a happy birthday.
“Hey, Adele Dazeem, it’s Idina Menzel. I just want to say, happy birthday,” she said in the video, which she captioned: “Happy 10th birthday, Adele Dazeem!”
The Rent star continued, “Sending you so much love and positive energy, I hope you have the best, best day.” Menzel then sang a rendition of “Happy Birthday” before ending her well wishes with, “Have a great one, lots of love, bye!”
@idinamenzel Happy 10th birthday, Adele Dazeem!
Menzel has voiced Elsa on Disney’s Frozen franchise since 2013. As part of the 86th annual Academy Awards the following year, she played the Frozen soundtrack’s Oscar-nominated song, “Let It Go”, where she was introduced by Travolta.
“There will always be a special place in my heart for the movie musical and for the songs that create their most memorable moments,” the Grease star said in his segment. “Here to perform the Oscar-nominated, beautifully powerful song ‘Let It Go’ from the Oscar-winning animated film FrozenPlease welcome the extraordinarily talented, one and only, Adele Dazeem.
(Frozen won two Oscars for Best Original Song and Best Animated Feature.)
Menzel has proven to be a good sport when it comes to the mix-up over the past decade, regularly joking about the incident on social media. In 2022, the actress took part in the viral ‘Not My Name’ challenge on TikTok, where she took on Adele Dazeem in her iconic roles, from Elphaba to Broadway’s Bad Unpleasant Leah Michele‘s mother cheerfulness.
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After the 2014 ceremony, Travolta said We weekly that he had “hit [himself] up” about the snafu. “Then I thought… What would Idina Menzel say? She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is incredibly talented and I’m so happy that Frozen took home two Oscars [on] Sunday night!” he said Us at the time.
For her part, Menzel admitted in 2015 that she was initially thrown for error when she took the stage. “But then I just got back on track and reminded myself where I was, and what a beautiful moment it was,” she said Billboard at the time, adding that Travolta reached out to her privately to apologize. “He was very friendly and sent this wonderful email, and we’re friends and it’s all cool. Please. I mean, I’ve only benefited from it!”