Wicked review: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo defy all expectations in spellbinding adaption

Over the past few weeks, the seemingly endless press cycle for Jon M. Chu’s epic musical adaptation Wicked has become, it’s sad to say, horrendible.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, who play Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West respectively, could fill a Shiz University classroom with the tears they’ve shed over their time working together. Greenwich in London has been renamed to the (admittedly witty) GreenWitch. Charli XCX led a mildly humorous Saturday Night Live sketch about stars auditioning for the film. We’re concerned for Jonathan Bailey’s eyelashes, for considering how much fluttering they’ve had to do on red carpets and in interviews recently, it’s a surprise they’ve not fallen out.

That’s all without getting into the actual scandalaciousness of it all: Erivo’s widely-derided reaction

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