Cynthia Erivo y Ariana Grande asisten al estreno de “Wicked” en Los Angeles, en el Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, el 9 de noviembre de 2024. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Another eco-friendly, not-so-wicked music symbol is pertaining to swipe Christmas back from the Grinch — however she chooses a broomstick over a sleigh.
As reported by Variety on Monday (Nov. 18), followers will certainly have the capacity to vocalize “Defying Gravity,” “The Wizard & I” and extra songs from Wicked‘s soundtrack along with the Witch of the West herself beginning Dec. 25, when sing-along variations of the Jon M. Chu-routed flick are slated to strike approximately 1,000 cinemas throughout North America. Exact places and outsets have yet to be completed.
The interactive testings — which design comparable sing-alongs held for film musicals such as The Greatest Showman — will certainly get here simply over a month after Wicked originally premieres in cinemas Nov. 22 after greater than 3 years planned. That’s simply Part 1, however; a 2nd Wicked movie is likewise in the benefit a November 2025 launch.
Both jobs celebrity Cynthia Erivo as the greenified Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, with Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage and Marissa Bode completing the actors. The movies — which are influenced by the Broadway music and Gregory Maguire story of the exact same name — began manufacturing in 2021 and attribute live onscreen singing takes of Stephen Schwartz’s well-known rating, consisting of “Popular,” “What Is This Feeling?” and “Dancing Through Life.”
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Leading approximately Wicked‘s premiere, the cast has been busy attending various premieres all over the world: Sydney, Los Angeles, New York City, Mexico City and, most recently, London. The project has also had one of the most active press cycles in recent history, with behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos, numerous interviews, a new Xfinity commercial and more all rolling out in the past week alone. Wicked has also partnered this year with everything from the 2024 Olympics to the “Yes, And?” singer’s R.E.M. Beauty line, Mattel and Crocs.
Premiere week likewise included a Tonight Show look from Grande, that remembered to host Jimmy Fallon, “When they called me to tell me I had the part, I had one heart attack. That was the first one. And then they told me I was going to be playing opposite Cynthia Erivo, that was the second heart attack. And then I died and I’m dead. And I’m dead here. And I’m still dead.”
