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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the We. That wait comes to an end on November 22nd with Jon M. Chu directing a powerhouse cast including Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and more. But while Wicked fans are eager to see and hear the beloved story and songs in theaters, for Bailey who plays Fiyero Tigelaar in the film actually singing those songs in front of co-stars Erivo and Grande was a daunting task.
“I’d say I completely disassociated. I vaguely remember bits of my toupee in the foreground and Jon Chu going like that in the background,” Bailey said. “You train really, really hard, obviously, knowing that Ari and Cynthia, two of the bet vocalists we have were going to be there. I knew that. I just had to go for gold and it was amazing. It was amazing. I had a facelift from the g-force of the sheer heft of their vocal prowess.”“Eric Vitro who taught.
there are some differences and, in turn, some differences from the theatrical stage to the silver screen. “It wasn’t really about the content of the book, it was about the room of the characters that were created on the stage that I felt the audiences needed or I need,” Chu said. “To see the full realization when we were in the theater, we fill a lot in with our heads. I imagined her actually flying around us so when I went back, I like, ‘oh, she doesn’t actually fly around us?’ I just wanted to fulfill those moments.
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