Depraved, the wildly profitable Broadway musical that made international stars of its leads Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, is lastly heading to the large display. Set to play Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, the Depraved Witch of the West? None aside from Grammy-winning celebrity Ariana Grande, and Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award recipient Cynthia Erivo. And accompanying them as their dashing love curiosity Fiyero? Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey, in fact.
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Grande and Erivo revealed their information final November with matching Instagram posts, that includes the flowers they’d exchanged and footage of them FaceTiming one another. “Thank goodness,” wrote Grande, referencing the title of the tune that opens the musical’s second act. In the meantime, Erivo quoted Glinda, writing, “Pink goes good with inexperienced” (a nod to Glinda’s favorite shade and the emerald hue of Elphaba’s pores and skin). Bailey’s announcement got here nearly a yr later, on 21 September, by way of the big-screen adaptation’s director Jon M Chu. (Chu beforehand helmed Loopy Wealthy Asians and proved his skill to take a beloved musical seamlessly from stage to display with Within the Heights.)
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It’s been a very long time coming for followers who’ve been hoping for a cinematic model of the witches’ exploits within the land of Oz – the mission first entered improvement in 2004, not lengthy after the present’s debut – however they’ll be amply rewarded. In April, Chu added that the musical can be break up into two movies, with the primary arriving in cinemas on 25 December 2024, and the second precisely a yr after that. “As we ready the manufacturing over the past yr, it grew to become inconceivable to wrestle the story of Depraved right into a single movie with out doing a little actual injury to it,” he mentioned in an announcement. “With more room, we will inform the story of Depraved because it was meant to be instructed whereas bringing much more depth and surprises to the journeys for these beloved characters.” Composer Stephen Schwartz, who penned the unique music and lyrics, and Winnie Holzman, who wrote the dialogue, are collaborating on the screenplays for each productions, whereas three-time Oscar nominee Marc Platt is producing.
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As we depend all the way down to the primary movie’s launch, revisit Grande’s rendition of “The Wizard and I” – carried out dwell as a part of a TV particular marking Depraved’s fifteenth anniversary in 2018 – and recall when, greater than a decade in the past, she tweeted about desirous to play Glinda in some unspecified time in the future in her life. Some goals, it appears, actually do come true.
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