Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo’s Future Is “Unlimited” But There Have Been “Painful Moments” Along The Way
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: “Unlimited”, Cynthia Erivo sings, “My future is unlimited.” The lyrics from The Wizard and I, a number from the musical Wicked, tumble sweetly, melodically – effortlessly – from her mouth.
Such a moment could not have happened 10, 15 or even 20 years ago, because, the star reveals: “I was not ready.” Erivo, 37, says that she first had to understand life in order to play Elphaba, the young woman with green pigmentation in a world of Caucasians, whose story she recounts breathtakingly in Universal’s movie musical extravaganza Wicked.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and the long running Broadway show it’s adapted from, with a book by Winnie Holzman and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
It details the friendship that developed between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, played with aplomb by Ariana Grande, when they were students.
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