\n In what might be the musical equivalent of tailgating, \u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d took what could have been a run-of-the-mill moment of corporate synergy, added a 37-piece orchestra and said \u201cIt\u2019s time to have feelings!\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The cynical might have thought the NBC special \u2013 littered with \u201cWicked\u201d-themed commercials that sold everything from Lexus cars to body wash \u2013 had too much marketing and self-congratulating to be taken seriously, but those people are haters.\n <\/p>\n
\n Who among us wouldn\u2019t revel in celebrating (and celebrating and celebrating) a phenomenon like the one that has followed \u201cWicked<\/a>\u201d for almost a year? Let the people enjoy \u2013 even the random ones in the audience who covered their faces in poorly-applied green paint like they were cosplaying a beer-bellied brute at an NFL game. (The crowd costumes really should have been an all-or-no-one situation.)\n <\/p>\n \n What \u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d did the best was, of course, the music. Many cast members from the two John M. Chu-directed movies took the stage, as did the original Glinda and Elphaba, Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, who joined stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in a special rendition of \u201cFor Good\u201d from the Gershwin Theater.\n <\/p>\n \n This was both a frustrating move and a welcomed one. The former because we all really just wanted to hear the whole song from Erivo and Grande as Oz intended; the latter because, well, it was amazing.\n <\/p>\n \n Stephen Schwartz accompanied the quartet in an arrangement that both honored the original and let Erivo and Grande make it their own.\n <\/p>\n \n Grande wasn\u2019t only one whose mouth was twisting with overwhelming emotion during the song, which prompted at least one person to text her best friends that she loved them so much.\n <\/p>\n \n If good things come to those who wait, as some people say, maybe even better things come to those who wait longer. \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d consider me ready.\n <\/p>\n \n Thankfully, the wait is almost over. \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d soars into theaters on November 21.\n <\/p>\n \n Last year\u2019s \u201cWicked\u201d became the highest-grossing film based on a Broadway musical<\/a>, and it earned 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture. Grande and Erivo also scored acting nominations. The film won two<\/a> statues \u2013 one for best achievement in production design and one for costume design.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d will be available to stream on Peacock tomorrow.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In what might be the musical equivalent of tailgating, \u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d took what could have been a run-of-the-mill moment of corporate synergy, added a 37-piece orchestra and said \u201cIt\u2019s time to have feelings!\u201d The cynical might have thought the NBC special \u2013 littered with \u201cWicked\u201d-themed commercials that sold everything from Lexus cars to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2140652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-\u2018Wicked-special-was-proof-that-we-can-still-have.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140653,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140651\/revisions\/2140653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cynthia](\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2242279654.jpg?c=original&q=w_860,c_fill\")
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