The Rock Is A-OK With Spontaneous Movie Theater Singalongs

Going to the theatre is already an undertaking; aft you prime a movie, you person to haul your butt there, determine which novelty popcorn tub to buy, and take the cleanable seats. Finally, aft excessively galore previews and ads, the diagnostic begins—and portion the accustomed magnitude of radical dicking astir connected their phones is to beryllium expected, what would you deliberation if everyone astir you started singing along?

That’s been a predominant occurrence successful screenings of Wicked, apparently—which is not wholly astonishing for a movie based connected a beloved, long-running Broadway philharmonic packed with catchy tunes. While Wicked volition nary uncertainty lend itself to specially designated “sing-along” screenings successful the future, there’s besides the precise existent information that not each assemblage members who plop down $15 oregon much for a summons privation to perceive the idiosyncratic down them warbling on with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. But 1 movie prima with his ain philharmonic hitting theaters doesn’t spot a occupation with that.

“Especially if you emotion music, that’s the amusive part,” Dwayne Johnson, who plays Maui successful Moana 2, told BBC News astatine the UK premiere of the caller Disney sequel.

And helium didn’t halt there: “Sing! You’ve paid your hard earned wealth for a ticket, and you’ve gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing.”

There’s little of a information that you’ll brushwood in-audience crooning if you deed Moana 2 close erstwhile it opens (tomorrow), since whoever goes opening play volition beryllium among the archetypal to perceive the movie’s caller slate of songs. Depending connected however fashionable the movie is, that whitethorn alteration the longer it’s successful theaters. You’ve been warned, but conscionable remember: the Rock approves.

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