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Kristin Chenoweth Admits Why Ariana Grande Is the Perfect Glinda successful ‘Wicked’
Thank goodness Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are backmost unneurotic again.
The Tony winners—who originated the roles of Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba successful the 2003 Broadway accumulation of Wicked—had a astonishment reunion April 3 that brought the pair, and audience, to tears.
Following a show of Idina’s caller philharmonic Redwood—her archetypal Broadway amusement successful much than a decade—Kristin amazed her longtime person connected stage, wherever she embraced the Rent alum earlier praising the cast’s performance.
“I conscionable person to accidental something, I saw the amusement tonight. Y’all, I americium not OK,” Kristin, 56, told the audience. “It was very, precise touching. I’m truly arrogant of my friend.”
After her remarks, Idina, 53, joined the Schmigadoon! star successful an encore show of Wicked’s penultimate opus “For Good.” In video of the song shared connected societal media, the brace held hands and gazed into each other’s eyes portion singing the bridge. Afterwards, the Frozen actress picked Kristin up disconnected the crushed successful a lukewarm clasp arsenic the assemblage applauded.
While the Broadway stars’ reunion was surely splenderific, it’s not the lone infinitesimal they person precocious reteamed. In fact, the brace made a astonishment cameo successful past year’s movie adaptation of Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande arsenic Elphaba and Glinda, wherever they sang “One Short Day” on with the movie’s leads.
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Plus, portion promoting the John M. Chu-directed flick, each 4 women joined unneurotic and discussed the value of their friendships with 1 another.
“I was conscionable truthful blessed to person idiosyncratic that was ever determination to spot maine and to enactment me,” Idina told Kristin successful a associated November interrogation with Entertainment Weekly. “I truly deliberation creation imitates life, and you're capable to find each different and spot each different and spot each different for who you truly are.”
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As for Cynthia and Ariana, they recovered a akin level of camaraderie portion playing the roles, noting successful unison that they each “definitely gained a lifelong friend.”
While Cynthia and Ariana yet landed the movie’s pb roles, work connected to spot who each was considered to play Elphaba and Glinda agelong earlier the 2024 film.
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Demi Moore
Demi Moore's accumulation institution Moving Pictures bought the rights to Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and brought the movie to Universal Pictures in the 1990s, according to producer Marc Platt.
Moore's producing partner Suzanne Todd confirmed the Ghost star wanted to play a pb successful the film—either Glinda the Good Witch oregon Elphaba the Wicked Witch—telling Vanity Fair in December 2024, "I deliberation connected antithetic days she could bash either, but successful the infinitesimal it was decidedly for Elphaba."
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Whoopi Goldberg
Moore wasn't the lone 1 actively pursuing the rights to Wicked. According to Maguire, Whoopi Goldberg was besides funny successful a movie adaptation.
"Whoopi Goldberg's manager wanted to bargain it for her," Todd added. "But I truly wanted it."
"This is true," Whoopi's publicist Brad Cafarelli told Vanity Fair. "Whoopi loved the publication and tried hard to get the rights."
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Claire Danes
Fresh disconnected the present cult-classic My So-Called Life, Claire Danes expressed involvement successful a movie wrong the archetypal six months of the book's release in the ‘90s, as Maguire recalled.
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Salma Hayek
According to Maguire, Salma Hayek "had had immoderate interest" successful moving connected a movie mentation arsenic well, though helium was not definite if she intended to play the portion of Elphaba.
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Laurie Metcalf
The Roseanne alum—who was besides one of the original members of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company—also showed interest, Maguire confirmed to Vanity Fair, noting that helium besides wasn't definite which relation she was looking to portray.
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Once Moore's Moving Pictures was granted the rights in the 1990s, they began moving connected a screenplay and creating their privation database of actors.
According to Todd, they ne'er got to the constituent of casting the quality of Glinda, but Michelle Pfeiffer was connected the privation list.
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Emma Thompson
Also connected Todd and Moore's database for Glinda? Emma Thompson, who was connected her mode to winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for 1995's Sense and Sensibility.
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Nicole Kidman
Another histrion that Todd confirmed was "top of mind" for the relation of Glinda was Nicole Kidman, who was caller disconnected 1995's Batman Forever.
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