Wicked, the wildly successful Broadway musical that made global stars of its leads Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, is finally heading to the big screen. Set to play Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West? None other than Grammy-winning superstar Ariana Grande, and Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award recipient Cynthia Erivo.
The pair revealed the news with matching Instagram posts, featuring the flowers they’d exchanged and pictures of them FaceTiming each other. “Thank goodness,” wrote Grande, referencing the name of the song that opens the musical’s second act. Meanwhile, Erivo quoted Glinda, writing, “Pink goes good with green” (a nod to Glinda’s favorite shade and the emerald hue of Elphaba’s skin).
It’s been a long time coming for fans who’ve been hoping for a film version of the witches’ exploits in the land of Oz: The project first entered development in 2004, not long after the show’s debut. Composer Stephen Schwartz, who penned the original music and lyrics, and Winnie Holzman, who wrote the dialogue, will collaborate on the screenplay, while three-time Oscar nominee Marc Platt will produce. In the director’s chair is Jon M. Chu, who helmed the mega hit Crazy Rich Asians and proved his ability to take a beloved musical seamlessly from stage to screen earlier this year with the joyous In the Heights.
Production is expected to begin in the summer of 2022 in the U.K. Until then, revisit Grande’s rendition of “The Wizard and I”—performed live as part of a TV special marking Wicked’s 15th anniversary in 2018—and recall when, almost a decade ago, she tweeted about wanting to play Glinda at some point in her life. Some dreams, it seems, really do come true.
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