Wicked Director Has 2 Big Reasons For Fans To Get Excited For The Sequel
The follow-up to last year's hit blockbuster is based on the second half of the Wicked stage musical, and will be titled Wicked For Good.
As well as staples like No Good Deed, As Long As You're Mine and For Good, from which the sequel earned its name, it was previously reported that, unlike the first film, part two will feature new songs written especially for the movie.
And Chu has now revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that one of these will be performed by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, while the other will be sung by Glinda, the character played by Ariana Grande.
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Both of these songs were penned by Stephen Schwartz, the composer of the original Wicked music, who also wrote an extended section of One Short Day for the first film, which was performed on screen by the OG Elphaba and Glinda, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.
Chu said: 'When we first met, the girls came to my house in person and sang For Good on my piano. The other half of the story that we never tell is that Stephen played their songs for them for the first time there as well.
'He's sitting there, and he is like, 'Would you guys like to hear the songs I'm thinking of for you?' And they were like, 'Yes, please'.'
The US outlet also claimed that a short snippet of Elphaba's song can be heard in the Wicked For Good trailer, which is released on Wednesday night.
Wicked proved to be a huge commercial and critical success when it hit cinemas towards the end of last year, winning two Oscars and earning acting nods for both Cynthia and Ariana, as well as recognition in the Best Picture category.
The sequel, Wicked For Good, will hit cinemas on Friday 21 November, almost a year to the day after the original film was released.
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