Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Cynthia Erivo weighs in on fans singing along to ‘Wicked’ in theatres: “We spent this long singing it ourselves”
nme.comWicked in theatres – and she’s given them the thumbs up.During an interview on NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast yesterday (November 28), the actress – who plays Elphaba alongside Ariana Grande‘s Galinda – was asked if she thinks it’s okay that fans have been singing along to screenings.“Good.
I’m OK with it,” she responded emphatically. “We spent this long singing it ourselves — it’s time for everyone else to join in.
It’s wonderful.” Watch the interview below (skip to 1:21 for her answer).Since Wicked’s release on November 22, the musical adaptation has breathed new life into the box office with huge takings – earning a combined $270million (£214.6milion) in worldwide ticket sales over its opening weekend.Since then, however, social media users have highlighted how cinemas have applied policies barring audiences from loudly singing along to the film’s songs – separate “sing-a-long” screenings have been organised to help with this.Earlier this week, Dwayne Johnson was the first to transmit his approval to the public: “Sing!
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