Cynthia Erivo appeared on 'The Tonight Show' to discuss her film 'Wicked' and to preview her performance of 'The Wizard and I.'
, Erivo shared a never-before-seen clip from the movie teasing her performance of beloved music number “The Wizard and I.”
Fallon also convinced Erivo to offer a preview of her rendition of “Defying Gravity,” the Broadway musical’s most memorable song. The actress admitted that she ended up doing the song “slightly different” than how the number was written. “I did study it,” she admitted. “When I first auditioned that’s what I did. I did it as was written.”
She added that the audition was “crazy” and lasted for three hours. “I was very ill by the end of it,” she told Fallon. “I was in bed for the next week, for like four days with a 104 fever. It was the craziest weekend because I had sung at Disney Hall the night before.”. “We’d never met,” Erivo said, adding that it felt like “instant chemistry.” “It was really easy,” she said of their relationship. “She was lovely.
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