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Everything We Know About Wicked, If You Dare to Find Out
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We get to see Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Galinda (pre-name change) become roommates and frenemies, but how are we supposed to know they hate each other without a rousing introductory song that rivals Kendrick Lamar levels of disdain? “As we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of WICKED into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” Chu said in a statement posted to social media on April 26, 2022. This even included a video shared by Entertainment Tonight, in which you can see and hear a ponytail-less Grande in full pink getup singing her high notes from the opening song.
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