Wicked's composer recalls the star saying, 'I want to be Glinda, not Ariana Grande playing Glinda' when preparing for 'Popular.'
, director Jon M. Chu, composer Steven Schwartz, and the film’s crew rave about the “golden-age movie star” and her performance of one of the musical’s most beloved numbers, “Popular.” The film version is slightly tweaked from the stage, but not so much that the changes are drastic—another credit to Grande’s instincts as Glinda, according to Schwartz.
“In the spirit of being open to new things for the movie, my music team and I thought, let’s refresh the rhythm. Let’s, maybe, I don’t know, hip-hop it up a little bit. Ariana said, ‘Absolutely not, don’t do it. I want to be Glinda, not Ariana Grande playing Glinda,'” Schwartz tells. In fact, Grande was so protective of Glinda she didn’t even want to add what became a show-stopping dance break finale to the number. “I had this idea for a new vocal ending” for “Popular,” Schwartz explains.
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