Ariana Grande is very good at impressions with her voice. However, she is not as good at imitating their looks. But for some reason, Mattel made her Wicked: For Good Glenda doll look more like Sarah Jessica Parker than the Wicked star.
Seriously, Grande’s doll looks more like she is about to walk the streets of Manhattan than the Yellow Brick Road. Tell me I am not the only one who is seeing that.
The new Glenda and Elphaba Barbies are not only new additions to Mattel’s Wicked toys. Dorothy Gale also got one. The three ladies of Oz also got Small Doll Playsets with their friends, like Toto, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, Nessarose, Fiyero, Boq, and the Wizard of Oz.
There is something for kids of all sizes to play with, so order them now. This way, when the sequel comes out on November 21st, you can go home after seeing the musical and recreate the movie at home until it comes out on home video.
Universal Pictures released the first trailer for Wicked For Good, and November 21st (170 days) is too far away from today.
The visuals make it look like it will be another sensational masterpiece like Wicked is. Plus, the story of Elphaba and Glenda’s friendship is going to bring friends together every time they watch the film because we all want that one friend who matters.
Here is the description of Wicked For Good from Universal: Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).
Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.
As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives.
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
While I wait for the sequel to the prequel of The Wizard of Oz to come out, I will watch Wicked another 100 times.
BTW I think that they should have released this trailer during the Tonys, which is going to be hosted by Erivo.
Ariana Grande has booked her first gig after Wicked, and it is not a musical. She will be starring in Meet the Parents 4.
She will play Stiller and Teri Polo’s (she has not signed on the dotted line but is expected to) son’s ballsy fiancé, who they think is all wrong for him. Sound familiar?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, she turned down several projects from “Universal, Sony and Warner Bros…She even declined a Warner comedy that would have given her the power to pick her co-star.”
She said no because she really wanted to star in a Comedy. I think she made the correct choice because what she did with Cat Valentine proves she has the comedic chops to work alongside Stiller and DeNiro.
Wicked was the most talked-about movie of 2024, and the sequel is just as anticipated! So NBC is cashing in on that in November before Wicked: For Good flies into movie theaters on its broomstick on November 21st.
In November, NBC will be airing a live concert special featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, along with guest stars, singing the show-stopping numbers from the first movie, and previewing some from the second film.
Director John M. Chu made the announcement today at NBC’s Upfront presentation in New York City.
Wicked is streaming on Peacock with an optional sing-along version!
For the first time ever, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars will introduce a brand-new format across twelve episodes: the Tournament of All Stars. The queens will be divided into three groups of six, each competing in their own bracket across three episodes. At the end of each bracket, the top three queens with the highest point totals will advance to the semi-finals, where they’ll go head-to-head with the top queens from the other groups in another round of fierce competition over two episodes. The tournament will then culminate in an epic Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown grand finale episode, where the finalists will battle it out for a grand prize of $200,000 and a place in the coveted Drag Race Hall of Fame.
And if it is going to be the 10th season, then you better have some judges that make the Queens want to work, and they do. The guest judges include Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Colman Domingo, Kate Beckinsale, Ice Spice, Chappell Roan, Susanne Bartsch, Adam Shankman, Jamal Sims, Mayan Lopez, Devery Jacobs, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Who are this season’s All Stars? They are Acid Betty, Aja, Alyssa Hunter, Bosco, Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Daya Betty, DeJa Skye, Denali, Ginger Minj, Irene the Alien, Jorgeous, Kerri Colby, Lydia B Kollins, Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Nicole Paige Brooks, Olivia Lux, Phoenix, and Tina Burner.
