Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande deliver the best Oscar opening performance of all time
Die2025 were enchanted in every respect. Or should we say ""? Because even before the moderator of this year's Academy Award entered the stage, none other than the iconic protagonist duo of the success musical-with an emotional homage to the fictional “magician of OZ” cosmos. And a few hidden messages to FemaleAnd “Wicked 2” was included.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were both nominated for their roles in “Wicked” at the Oscars-as misunderstood witch Elphaba and super-populary Hexe Glinda, which will become an unusual BFF duo in the course of the film. And even behind the camera, the two actresses delighted their audience with their emotional press tour, in which both and again inwere moved to tears.
It is clear that their performance at the Oscars 2025 also did not leave any room for understatement. Instead of performing their songs from “Wicked”, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande also sang songs from the other two large iconic films, which emerged from the book template “The Wizard of Oz:“ The Wizard of Oz ”from 1939 and“ The Wiz ”, a musical in 1978 by L. Frank Baum to Harlem in New York in 1978 City in the milieu of an African Americanmoved. A nice tribute, if only because the, who was only turned with black actors: the inside, got a lot less attention than the rest of the “Wicked” representations.
Ariana Grande sang her own version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, probably the most famous song from the film from 1939-in a deep-red, sequin-occupied ball dress, which should already be a kind of forhadowing to the upcoming “Wicked” continuation. Finally, the audience then meets the famous Dorothy, who (at least in the original film) the magical glitter rednesscarries.
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Of course, the performance ended with the hit from the new “Wicked” kinofo: “Defying Gravity”, which after the film releaseeverywhereonwas - and the tragicmarked by the best friends in the film. An appearance that was so emotional that Michelle Yeoh aka Shiz University management Madame Morrible was moved to tears.
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