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‘Wicked: The Soundtrack’ Album Review: Stephen Schwartz’s World-Beating Song Score Gets Its Due, and So Do the Divas Who Deliver It Chris Willman November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
In the song "One Short Day", Schwartz wrote a new section "to show more of the propaganda that the Wizard was disseminating and really understand better this magic book — the Grimmerie". [18] The new section was performed by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth , who originated the roles of Elphaba and Glinda on Broadway, respectively.
God's Plan" held steady at number one for its second week on the chart, gaining 83.3 million streams. [23] In the end of February "God's Plan" became the second song in the Hot 100's history to achieve more than 100 million weekly streams. [24] The single topped the Hot 100 for 11 weeks, becoming the 24th song in the history of the chart to do ...
A Wicked fan favorite almost received a modern upgrade for the movie adaptation. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Monday, November 25, Stephen Schwartz, who composed the ...
The reprise of "No One Mourns the Wicked" is attached to the beginning of "Thank Goodness". "The Wicked Witch of the East", sung by Nessarose, Elphaba, and Boq, is missing from the album. Producers deemed it too difficult to arrange for the album and thought the song would give too much of the plot away to an audience who had never seen Wicked ...
Wicked: Part One changed Us for good, and the second half is sure to do the same. The first of the two-part Wicked movie adaptation, released in November 2024, brought the beloved Broadway show to ...
"Defying Gravity" is a song from the musical Wicked, composed by Stephen Schwartz. It was originally recorded on November 10, 2003, by American actresses Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who portrayed Elphaba and Glinda in the musical respectively. The song was released as part of the accompanying cast recording on December 16
American singer and actress Ariana Grande performed a rendition of "Popular" as Glinda in the first part of Universal Pictures' two-part film adaptation of Wicked, which was released on November 22, 2024. [7] Her version of the song was released the same day on the soundtrack album Wicked: The Soundtrack (2024). [8]