00:00You just, it's a beautiful tribute, not to make it about us in any way.
00:04It's just you found your own light.
00:07It's gone, it's gone.
00:09Put the glasses on.
00:10How did we get here? We're already starting.
00:13I knew I'd need these.
00:14Oh my God.
00:21I'm Kristen Chenoweth.
00:22I'm Ariana Grande.
00:24I'm Cynthia Erivo.
00:25I'm Idina Menzoff.
00:26How did you all kind of arrive at what your cameo and your role in the film would be?
00:32Stephen Schwartz wrote it.
00:34Yeah, they just asked us.
00:35And I said, just make us look pretty.
00:38What was the original?
00:39We both texted and she said, have you seen the description of us in the movie?
00:44And it was like, it didn't say old decrepit.
00:46Oh, it wasn't going to go there.
00:48It said something like that, but then it said, then we changed it and we said, no, we're not going to be those wise women.
00:54It wasn't going to go there.
00:54Can't we just be beautiful, fairy goddesses?
00:56Goddesses.
00:58Goddesses.
00:58So we might have had that one part changed.
01:00Just that one.
01:01And fabulous.
01:02We needed it.
01:03Fantastic.
01:04Also, we insisted.
01:06We were like, this is not happening without that.
01:08Yes.
01:09So where is it?
01:10And we had the best day rehearsing.
01:13We sure did.
01:14It was almost like Glendon Elphaba grew up.
01:17Yes.
01:17You know what I mean?
01:19It was so fun.
01:21It was really fun.
01:21It was really fun.
01:22You do your vocal riff, which I love.
01:24Was that part of the script or did you throw that in there?
01:27Of course she threw it in there.
01:28Well, you didn't.
01:29That's like so.
01:31No, Stephen wrote that in.
01:32I'm going.
01:34No, we just showed up.
01:35Right?
01:36Yeah.
01:36And it was Stephen Schwartz.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Figured out how to put all the singing into one key and arrange it.
01:44Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:46Yeah.
01:47Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:52You really put your own stamp on the end of Divine Gravity.
01:55Were there a lot of conversations around that?
01:58Stephen Schwartz was in the, whilst we were doing the comps for the rehearsal tracks, he
02:05said he trusted me with the story.
02:08I did it by the book first.
02:10And he was like, and?
02:12I trust you with the story.
02:15So what's your, what's your war cry?
02:17And I tried a couple of things and then I did the one that I, that stuck because it felt
02:24good.
02:24It felt right.
02:25And that's the one that stuck.
02:27It's so good.
02:28It is so good.
02:29It is so good.
02:30It is so good.
02:30I read the Wicked novel by Breger and Glyer.
02:44Um, so I had a lot of that to draw from, um, although the novel is much darker and different
02:53than the show.
02:55But I watched Margaret Hamilton a lot and hoped that it would just kind of infuse.
03:01And I think the time where it connected for me was in her cackle and finding that in our
03:06scenes and stuff like that.
03:07Margaret Hamilton was definitely like a, a touchstone for me, but looking at the image
03:12of her, I always go back to this image of, you know, like the Beckham White where she's
03:17got her core seems like it's the first time I realized what she has in her.
03:21That's something that can, can pull in the look of her as well.
03:25But then I'd obviously seen this show a couple of times and I had listened to both of you often.
03:34So I had your voices in my head and I had her sort of imagery.
03:39So it's really nice to sort of find pieces of those things to create something and then
03:44add my own thing to it.
03:47You did.
03:48Yes, you did.
03:49Yes.
03:50You both did.
03:51The original Broadway cast recording was of course my lifeline growing up.
03:56It was always something that brought me great comfort and happiness.
03:58And I would listen to it when I was nervous for something or sad about something.
04:03And it was always a safe space for me.
04:05I also read the original L. Frank Baum books and there are so many, and there's so many
04:09insane characters that like, we just haven't even touched upon.
04:13Yeah.
04:13I know.
04:13It's really incredible.
04:15Every single person, our props department, our costume designer, Paul, our, our set designer,
04:19Nathan Crowley, every single thing was a piece of Ozzie and history from the books
04:24and what's been before us, the Wizard of Oz and Wicked, your Wicked.
04:29Want to wear?
04:30Try them on.
04:30No, yes.
04:31Come on with us.
04:31I mean, including my glasses I brought today.
04:33Oh, yeah.
04:34Those were very awesome.
04:35Those were wonderful.
04:36I remember when we got the news FaceTiming you and both of us just being sopping, sobbing,
04:43snotty dolphins.
04:45It was like, who can speak higher?
04:47It's still good.
04:49We couldn't hear where.
04:50There was a white noise and pink.
04:52Snot.
04:52Snot glitter.
04:53Snot glitter.
04:55Snot glitter.
04:56I think you faced her.
04:57We did, yeah.
04:58We faced her.
04:59We were like sunny and beautiful and I remember you were in blue.
05:02It was like the sun was on you.
05:04I remember this.
05:04Yeah, yeah.
05:05You're so sweet.
05:06I think she was so, she was so respectful.
05:11Thank you, brother.
05:11Yeah, thank you.
05:12I felt very, very supported by both of you, actually.
05:15I felt really, really supported and like given the room and space and just like lots of encouragement.
05:22After you seeing the film, that voice note, I still play it sometimes.
05:26Oh, you saved mine too.
05:27I saved the voice notes and I played them.
05:29I play them a lot.
05:30I meant it.
05:30I know.
05:31I think it meant a lot.
05:33Why are you getting teary eyes?
05:35I just, I meant it.
05:36I don't know.
05:37I saw very emotional and I just felt like you both did such justice.
05:42Yes.
05:43To the story.
05:45Oh, we're welcome.
05:46Yeah.
05:47You just, it's a beautiful tribute, not to make it about us in any way.
05:52A little bit.
05:52It's just, you found your own light.
05:55It's gone.
05:56It's gone.
05:57The glasses are.
05:58How did we get here?
05:59We already started.
06:01I knew I'd need these.
06:02Oh my God.
06:03I know I should have brought mine too.
06:05F*** it.
06:05Oh no.
06:06I was called in to just sing for Alphabet.
06:18I was given a wisdom and I, Defying Gravity and For Good to Sing.
06:23Just those little days.
06:24Just tiny, tiny songs.
06:26Mine was a camera test, so my audition was like three hours.
06:30So I sang those songs, but did the scenes and the scene work and for good.
06:35How close was the camera?
06:37Because I find that doing musicals on film is very tricky because what it takes for us
06:41to sing for real, it makes really ugly.
06:45Faces.
06:46Like your own souls.
06:47And so sometimes you have to sing.
06:49I don't say that all the time.
06:50If the mouth has to be open, the mouth has to be open.
06:52Exactly.
06:53But it's real because you have to see the names.
06:55But sometimes I say like, is this horrible singing?
06:58Yeah, back up.
06:59Back, back, back up.
07:01Before this, publicly, we had only ever sung the opposite.
07:05Of course the songs.
07:06I had only ever sung The Wizard and I, and she had only ever sung Thank Goodness.
07:08That's right.
07:09I had no idea.
07:10Mm-hmm.
07:10Mm-hmm.
07:11Did you know that?
07:12I remember you doing it.
07:13She did it at the 15th anniversary with her hair and lips and everything.
07:18That was crazy.
07:20Not crazy.
07:20It was amazing.
07:22It was amazing.
07:23But I'm so glad you sang Thank Goodness.
07:25It was my favorite song.
07:26I loved it.
07:27That's my favorite song.
07:28Don't tell anybody.
07:30You know it is.
07:30I do know what to do with it.
07:31I mean, I love all the Elphabuzz songs.
07:33Of course.
07:34But you know, when you're doing it each day's a week, you...
07:36It's not too low.
07:37Yes.
07:38And I always just love that.
07:40You always said that.
07:41Yeah.
07:42And I love I'm Not That Girl.
07:43Oh, no.
07:44That's what she...
07:45What?
07:45Her, I'm Not That Girl is my favorite.
07:47Did they test you to see if you could hit that, I'm not that girl.
07:52Yes.
07:53No, they just made me do it in front of a live audience.
07:56After she leaves, you know, I have like two verses of it.
08:00Oh, right.
08:01You have it at the end.
08:01While the set changed.
08:03Yeah.
08:03So I could hear a clunk, clunk, clunk in the background.
08:05And I was like, I'm not that.
08:08I'm not that.
08:10It was fine.
08:11It was just fine.
08:13It was perfect.
08:14Go ahead.
08:14The show, for me, has always held the three themes I look for in any piece, really, which
08:20is friendship, love, you know, and forgiveness, which is hard to do with people that you have
08:27the most.
08:27That's what it's all in there.
08:29It's all in the tapestry of this piece.
08:31Even though there's a love story with a man, what we love is the true love stories between
08:35the women and the sisterhood.
08:38I was cast, it was very much a side character, and then it kind of developed into this love
08:43story between the two women.
08:44It wasn't always meant to be that, I think.
08:47Were you ever surprised by that?
08:48I mean, at first, I kind of was.
08:50I was like, wow, it's turning into, it's evolving into that.
08:53I think I was too self-absorbed and worrying about, yeah, if I was going to be fired all
08:58the time.
08:59I was just so happy to have someone that was always there to say, to see me and to support
09:05me.
09:06I remember we opened in San Francisco, and we were still very much working on the show,
09:10and I think it's okay and fair to say that we weren't there yet.
09:13I remember at intermission, after she defies gravity, I went to Adina's dressing room and
09:19I said, nothing's going to matter what anyone says, because, did you hear?
09:25I remember that.
09:26I remember that.
09:27That's so beautiful.
09:29It's not the truth.
09:31It is the truth.
09:32They went crazy when you flew, and when you defied gravity.
09:36Yes, they do, and they go crazy when she sings popular, and so she's just being nice.
09:42Or when she comes out in the bubble from right in the, what are you saying?
09:47It's just funny, because this is what we do.
09:49This is what we do.
09:51Really?
09:51Yeah.
09:52I mean, honestly, she says the whole audience just explodes when she comes out in the bubble,
09:58even though she was afraid that she was eating soap suds.
10:02Yes, I thought for sure I was going to get cancer, and it's crying.
10:06God, well, the bubble juice, you know.
10:09The bubble juice.
10:11It's okay, but we both did our part, and I just remember, well, you know, I ate so much
10:16of it.
10:16That's one thing they got to do in the movie, which she got to have a real bubble, and I
10:19was so happy about that.
10:21I mean, I loved our bubble, but, you know, and, you know, you really fly, and I love your
10:24flying, but, you know, you get to do things in a movie that we do differently on a play,
10:30and it's just nice to see in the film.
10:31I'm so glad that we're still alive, you see?
10:34Indeed, me too.
10:35Me too.
10:37You all share a legacy in culture with these characters, and you are kind of the only four
10:45to have this special legacy here together across time.
10:49How does that feel, and what do you hope that legacy is going forward?
10:52I think it's a good show.
10:54When we're older, we could do Vegas.
10:57I love it.
10:58Switch roles.
10:59I'll be Dylan.
11:00You'll be Dylan-man?
11:01I'll be Dylan.
11:02I'll be Fiora.
11:03Perfect.
11:03I'll be Fiora.
11:04I want to switch with...
11:05Can we please switch just one time?
11:07You've been working out.
11:09No, I'm sorry.
11:09I didn't mean a joke.
11:10I think the legacy...
11:11Theirs doesn't stop because that show is still going.
11:15You know, there are still young women who want to be on the stage and who want to be in
11:19that theatre to watch.
11:21The girls that can't get to the theatre and can't get on the stage can watch it from their
11:26homes or watch it from a cinema, go with their parents.
11:30And so actually what this means now is that more people can see, more people can share
11:36in it, more people can learn that difference is something to be celebrated, more people
11:41can learn that you can forgive, more people can learn that you can love, more people can
11:45learn about friendship and goats and goats and love and speaking and speaking, speaking
11:51their peace and their mind and what's on their heart and feeling safe.
11:54What I love so much about it is, especially in this time that we're living in, that women
12:02can be really powerful and unapologetic about it and more beautiful because they speak their
12:10mind and they're ferocious and powerful.
12:16I love that that's celebrated.
12:19Holy s**t.
12:21The legacy just continues.
12:25That's a big word.
12:26It will continue with this movie, it continues with our show, a once in a lifetime legacy.
12:32Yeah.
12:33Thank you for watching everybody.
12:34We know that when you see this movie, you too will be changed for good.
12:39Yes.
12:40Jesus!
12:41Snap!
12:42Perfect!
12:43Woo!
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