Everyone is feeling Wicked these days. The film starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda has inspired memes, plenty of social media discourse, a surprise piano performance from Jeff Goldblum who plays the Wizard of Oz, and Christmas Day singalong screenings. All the fans want to sing …
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Beyond the box office numbers, the best way to tell if a movie is a hit is the prevalence of related memes. Perhaps you remember how Barbie and Oppenheimer conquered your social media feeds when released simultaneously last year, going on to earn more than $2 billion combined? No, it’s …
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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were paid the same salary for their co-starring roles in Wicked, according to a Universal Pictures spokesperson. The response follows unsubstantiated rumors on social media around the Wicked stars’ earnings on the blockbuster musical. “Reports of pay disparity between Cynthia and Ariana are completely false …
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Out reporter Tracy E. Gilchrist was in the midst of an interview with Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande when Gilchrist revealed that LGBTQ+ people were responding to the “Defying Gravity” lyrics in a way that really moved Erivo. The heartfelt exchange then took over the internet. “I’ve seen …
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Ariana Grande penned a heartfelt message to her fans amid the release of Wicked on Friday, thanking them for growing up with her, and for their patience during the apparent “drought” of new music while she was working on the musical. “I’m feeling incredibly emotional today (who’s surprised?) and I …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week Kendrick Lamar shakes the music world with a surprise album, Rosé slows it down in a soul-baring ballad, and Ariana Grande makes her dreams come true with a …
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It was a wonderful day in Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West died, or so you’d think from the celebratory mood of the residents of Munchkinland. Every man, woman and child were whooping with joy, crying tears of relief, tearing down terrifying posters of the green-hued tyrant like …
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There’s no place like home, and Judy Garland‘s daughter Lorna Luft couldn’t have felt more comfortable at a recent screening of the Wizard of Oz prequel musical Wicked. “The movie is astounding,” Luft wrote on Instagram. “It’s epic, brilliant, touching and honest.” Her mother played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 …
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Ariana Grande‘s appearance on The Tonight Show got off to a rocky start backstage, when she and host Jimmy Fallon found themselves in a heated argument about… the taxonomy of witches in the extended Oz universe. Ok, not actually. The pair instead did a lip-sync recreation of the classic viral …
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Cynthia Erivo stopped by The Tonight Show to discuss the pressures and pleasures of taking on the role of Elphaba in the forthcoming film adaptation of Wicked. At the end of her chat with host Jimmy Fallon, Erivo shared a never-before-seen clip from the movie teasing her performance of beloved …
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