Cynthia Erivo on singing Defying Gravity: 'I think my method will be to communicate the meaning of the song as much as I can.' Wicked
It's been nearly 20 years since Wicked first debuted and became one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time. Wicked was based on Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and the show was composed by Stephen Schwartz with a book by Winnie Holzman. The roles of Elphaba and Glinda were made famous by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, and a movie adaptation had been rumored for years.
"I've been listening to it, and I've sung it. I kind of just go with it naturally," Erivo explained while doing press for Disney's Pinocchio."There's the temptation to push and to do too much with it. I don't know that that's what my method will be. I think my method will be to communicate the meaning of the song as much as I can."
Erivo praised Schwartz in the interview, calling Wicked"really spectacular." She added that it's"a piece about not being held back from the greatness that a person has within themselves and allowing themselves to soar beyond their own ideals or beyond their own possible wishes and to become as great as they're meant to be." She explained,"That's what that song is ...
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