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‘Wicked’ Premiere Fashion: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo & More Magical Looks!
What is this feeling?
For Wicked fans, it was axenic magic erstwhile Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo posed alongside archetypal Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth connected the reddish carpet of the film's Nov. 9 premiere successful Los Angeles.
But this wouldn't the archetypal clip the almighty radical got unneurotic up of the movie's authoritative premiere. As Erivo, who plays Elphaba—a.k.a The Wicked Witch of the West—explained, their predecessors welcomed them to the Land of Oz with unfastened arms.
"We had an astonishing time yesterday with the women who created this, the architects, Kristin and Idina," Erivo told Justin Sylvester and Zuri Hall during a associated interrogation with Grande connected the reddish carpet astatine the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "That was 1 of the astir unthinkable highlights of our year, to beryllium honest, to beryllium capable to stock immoderate abstraction with them."
And the "yes, and?" instrumentalist couldn't assistance but agree.
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"It's a precise supportive witch coven, I person to say," Grande shared. "Every azygous 1 of our sister witches has been very, very, precise supportive. We conscionable consciousness truthful honored to beryllium a portion of this bequest and to beryllium the ones successful the movie. It's specified a saccharine happening to stock with them."
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And it goes without saying that Chenoweth and Menzel consciousness the nonstop same, particularly considering Grande's crook arsenic Glinda serves arsenic a full-circle moment for the singer.
"When she was 10 she told me, 'I privation to beryllium you. I privation to play Glinda.' In that aforesaid voice," Chenoweth explained connected the reddish carpet. "Obviously, we are close. I've known her since she was 10."
Noting that erstwhile the "7 Rings" vocalist got the audition, they "both cried," she added that erstwhile Grande landed the role, "We some sounded similar dolphins."
In fact, aft the Victorious alum was casted, she told Chenoweth, "‘I privation to marque you proud. I privation to wage homage to you.'"
A feat that the Broadway prima noted already came true. As she recalled telling Grande, "‘You volition bash each of that, but enactment your ain stamp connected it.' And she did."
Keep speechmaking for a look astatine each prima connected the reddish carpet...
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Jennifer Lopez
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Cynthia Erivo
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Ariana Grande
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Kristin Chenoweth
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Idina Menzel
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Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
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Jonathan Bailey
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Frankie Grande
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Normani
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Marissa Bode
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Sarah Paulson
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Emilie Livingston & Jeff Goldblum
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Karrueche Tran
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Michaela Jae Rodriguez
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Ethan Slater
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Jonathan Bailey
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Michelle Yeoh
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Kevin McHale
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Sasha Farber & Jenn Tran
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Amanda Gorman
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Laufey
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Lena Waithe
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Leah Kateb
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Bronwyn James
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Sophia Bush
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Hayley Kiyoko
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Troye Sivan
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Ashley Tisdale
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