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Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo’s Future Is “Unlimited” But There Have Been “Painful Moments” Along The Way

‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo has talked about the Universal Jon M. Chu pic and rumors her and Ariana Grande will move to Broadway.

Erivo, 37, says that she first had to understand life in order to play Elphaba, the young woman with green pigmentation in a world of Caucasians, whose story she recounts breathtakingly in Universal ’s movie musical extravaganza Wicked. I saw her in several concerts she put on to showcase her outsize talent and I watched her pop up here and there in everything from Sister Act to The Color Purple to Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse. The Royal National Theatre, symbol of Britain’s theatrical excellence, offered her the part of the Blue Fairy in a try-out musical production of Pinocchio, which Dennis Kelly adapted from Carlo Collodi’s tale and Disney’s 1940 classic.

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