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.
Stephen Schwartz, the composer behind the fan-favorite musical Wicked, is revealing why the film has been split into two parts.
If you missed the news, the film, starring Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, will be a two-part movie with part one being released on December 25, 2024 and part two being released exactly one year later. Click inside to see what Stephen Schwartz said… Stephen revealed the reason why the Jon M.
Chu film will be made into two parts, despite it obviously being a one-part show that has played on Broadway for over a decade. “We found it very difficult to get past ‘Defying Gravity’ without a break,” he told fan newsletter The Schwartz Scene. “That song is written specifically to bring a curtain down, and whatever scene to follow it without a break just seemed hugely anti-climactic.” “The truth is we tried for some time to make it one movie, even if it had to be one very long movie,” he added. “But we kept running into two problems.
The first is that even as a very long single movie, it required us cutting or omitting things that we wanted to include and that we think fans of the show and the story will appreciate.” The second reason, as he explained it, came down to the show-stopper number, and the inability for what comes at the beginning of Act 2 to escape its gravitational pull. “So, for these two reasons,” Schwartz continued, “plus the excitement of doing something that’s never been done before with a musical, we have decided to do two movies.
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