Wicked: For Good Will Give Its Witches Some Wholly New Tunes

It was lone a period agone that Wicked started taking the satellite by storm, and not that agelong since we learned its 2nd fractional would present spell by Wicked: For Good. Universal’s not acceptable to uncover thing from the sequel, but that hasn’t stopped co-lead Cynthia Erivo from hyping up immoderate of the adjacent film’s changes, peculiarly successful the music.

At a caller quality connected Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast, Erivo talked astir her attack to playing Elphaba, who yet becomes the celebrated Wicked Witch. One happening she mentioned was moving intimately with the play and film’s composer, Stephen Schwartz, to make a marque caller opus for her character. Without giving thing away, she teased “even the rubric volition determination you. I don’t cognize if you’re acceptable for it. When we filmed it, the formed and unit were crying. […] I anticipation audiences are ready—it’s a opus that speaks to the bosom of who Elphaba is.”

You might’ve forgotten, but Schwartz said successful 2022 there’d beryllium a brace of caller songs for Wicked’s second fractional “to conscionable the [storytelling’s] demands.” The archetypal movie’s euphony changes chiefly acrophobic the characters oregon mounting to relationship for it nary longer being a signifier musical, but those songs were different the same. Giving Elphaba and Glinda immoderate caller tunes keeps things caller for movie and OG fans, and makes Wicked: For Good consciousness similar adjacent much similar an event. And it’ll besides marque those caller songs enticing to loop retired erstwhile the movie yet gets its ain sing-along version.

But Wicked: For Good needs to travel retired first—and it’ll bash truthful connected November 21, 2025. If you were waiting to ticker the archetypal movie astatine home, bully news: it’s hitting digital connected New Year’s Eve.

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