NBC’s upcoming Wicked live performance particular lastly has a broadcast date, with the community saying Wednesday (July 9) when followers will get to look at Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo‘s dwell performances of songs from the musical.
Arriving only a few weeks forward of Depraved: For Good, the particular will air on NBC at 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 6. The next day, the live performance will turn into out there for streaming on Peacock.
Based on a launch, the showcase will final two hours and have music from the primary Depraved movie — together with potential picks from the sequel, which is able to hit theaters Nov. 21. It’ll happen on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
The air-date announcement comes two months after NBC first shared that the Billboard Sizzling 100-topping star and Tony winner would reunite on stage for a Depraved particular occasion. The live performance is predicted to bolster the hype round Half 2’s premiere, which is able to come virtually precisely a 12 months after the primary movie within the duology dropped. As of late Could, Half 1 had grossed greater than $755.9 million worldwide.
“She’s in a position to entry her rage extra,” Erivo just lately instructed Billboard of what occurs to Elphaba within the upcoming movie. “The scent I wore modified. The make-up modified. Little shifts that convey you to a extra mature model of who Elphaba turns into. And she or he is scrumptious on this subsequent one.”
Erivo and Grande haven’t carried out a lot Depraved materials collectively offscreen, though they did join forces on the 2025 Oscars to sing “Defying Gravity” collectively on stage. The previous additionally carried out “Residence” from The Wiz whereas the latter belted out “Someplace Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz; later that evening, Depraved took residence greatest costume design and greatest manufacturing design.
See the official poster for NBC’s Depraved live performance particular beneath.
NBC ‘WICKED’ SPECIAL
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