{"id":220,"date":"2009-09-18T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=220"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:52:12","slug":"children-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Children and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/2009\/07\/still-shes-not-still-idina-menzel-is.html\">Idina Menzel<\/a> and her husband <strong>Taye Diggs<\/strong> welcomed their first child, a baby boy, into the world on September 3rd, 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/meet-world-walker-diggs-idina-menzel-taye-diggs-release-baby-photo\/\">Walker Nathaniel Diggs made his first appearance <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/\">http:\/\/www.people.com\/<\/a> today in the following photograph: <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 366px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 274px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382687944980164402\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/SrMmKtFR7zI\/AAAAAAAAAaQ\/NS50dyLrleY\/s400\/walker+nathaniel+diggs.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">photo by the associated press<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idinamenzel.com\/\">Menzel<\/a>, who won a Tony Award in 2004 for her portrayal of Elphaba in the Broadway musical <em>Wicked<\/em>, met Diggs when they were cast as Maureen and Benny respectively in the Original Cast of Jonathan Larson\u2019s musical <em>Rent <\/em>in 1995. They married on January 11th, 2003. Menzel has also appeared on Broadway in<em> Aida<\/em> and off-Broadway in <em>See What I Wanna See<\/em>, <em>The Wild Party<\/em> and <em>The Vagina Monologues<\/em>. Her most recent solo recording, <em>I Stand<\/em>, was released last year following <em>Here<\/em> (2004) and <em>Still I Can\u2019t Be Still<\/em> (1998). Diggs has appeared on Broadway in <em>Wicked, Chicago and Carousel<\/em> and off-Broadway in <em>A Soldier\u2019s Play<\/em> and <em>The Wild Party<\/em>. He was last seen on television as Dr. Sam Bennett on<em> Private Practice<\/em>, and he was also seen as the title character on the series <em>Kevin Hill<\/em> and was featured on <em>Ally McBeal<\/em>. Both Diggs and Menzel reprised their original roles in the 2005 film version of <em>Rent<\/em> directed by <strong>Chris Columbus<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I wish to offer my most sincerest congratulations to Idina and Taye on their beautiful son. I hope that their lives together are always filled with the joy, happiness and love that is so radiant in this beautiful photograph. 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