Prepare to Defy Gravity: “Wicked” Will Have Sing-Along Screenings This Christmas
Talk about a Christmas miracle.
Universal will offer roughly 1,000 chances for Wicked fans to sing along during the film in special interactive screenings across North America on December 25, Variety reports. This gives all those with the pipes to sing—and the rest of us who are just excited to see the film and could use the catharsis of a public sing-along—a month to train our vocal cords as director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation lands in theaters on November 22. While there are very, very few of us who will be able to match the vocals of Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda (to say nothing of Jonathan Bailey, who plays Fiyero), the opportunity to sing along to “Defying Gravity,” “Popular,” “The Wizard and I,” “Dancing Through Life,” and more will be impossible to resist.
Chu’s Wicked is the hotly-anticipated adaptation of the long-running Broadway juggernaut, itself based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel. Erivo’s Elphaba, a green-skinned, misunderstood woman (and future Wicked Witch of the West), crosses paths with Grande’s impossibly popular Glinda (the future Glinda the Good) at Shiz University, where they become friends. Yet, as all fans of the book and the musical could tell you, their friendship is tested when they head to Emerald City and meet the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum).
Joining Erivo, Grande, and Jonathan Bailey in the cast are Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Peter Dinklage as Dr. Dillamond, Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa Bode as Nessarose, and Bowen Yang as Pfannee.
The exact details of the sing-along screenings haven’t been finalized yet, but the time to start getting your singing voice prepared is now.
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Featured image: L to R: Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in WICKED, directed by Jon M. Chu
