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Wicked Reveals the Big Riff
The first look teaser premiered during the ultimate theater event, the Super Bowl.
Our first look at the first of two Wicked films is only one minute long, but it still manages to show us: Ariana Grande being scared, Cynthia Erivo’s incredible manicure, flying monkeys, literal yellow bricks, a bubble, Michelle Yeoh, and one big riff. “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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