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- * Something has changed
within me *

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* Something is not the same *

- Are you ready?
- Let's do it.

- Mm-hmm.

[enchanting music]

[glass shatters]

Welcome to the spectacular
Emerald City set

from our brand-new movie,
"Wicked."

- This magical place has been
our home for more than a year,

and tonight, finally,
we're excited to share

all of our
"Wicked" secrets with you.

- Let's tell
each other something

we've never told anyone before.

- You might be
a long-time "Wicked" fan,

like us, or taking
your very first outing to Oz.

- Either way, the entire cast
is joining us tonight

to reveal the incredible
process that got us here.

- It is our wonderful
Wizard of Oz, Jeff Goldblum.

- I didn't know they were
going to be best friends.

[laughter]

- I happen to be
genuinely self-absorbed

and deeply shallow.
- Jonathan Bailey.

- Hello!
- Johnny Bailey.

- Could I ask you...
- Anything you want.

- Just to move out the way?
- Absolut-- yeah.

- Bowen Yang.

- Choreographer said,
"You're a dancer, Bowen."

And I believed him.
- Marissa Bode.

- I'm like, "Yes,
pick up the speed please."

- Right.
- "This is so fun."

- Action!
- I'm Boq.

I'm from Munchkinland.

- Ethan Slater.

- So hard not to smile.

- And the iconic
Michelle Yeoh.

- Yes, that was me.

- In this night of exclusives,

we even filmed
footage ourselves...

[together]
The wizard will see you now.

- To share our most personal
"Wicked" memories with you.

- Another day with Glinda.

The dream of my entire life.

And we even brought

an exclusive first look
from the film.

- "Wicked" is all about
expecting the unexpected,

and tonight is no different.

- Should we have a little look?
- Oh, please.

- What the heck?

[voices belting
and harmonizing]

* *

- I am having a hard time
wrapping my head

around the fact that
the time has finally come.

- I know.

- I mean, between
the audition process

and the prep
and the rehearsal

and everything
and actually filming,

it was, like, 2 and 1/2 years.

It's been--
- That's a long time.

- Well, yeah.

- OK, so we can't assume

that everybody knows
what "Wicked" is

or what the story
of "Wicked" is,

so we've done you a favor
and put something together

for you to understand
just what we've been doing.

- Yes, we edited this
last night.

[whimsical piano music]

- The story of "Wicked"
is the story

that you don't know from
"The Wizard of Oz."

How did the Wicked Witch
become the Wicked Witch?

- The story of two girls
who are very, very different.

One of whom
is beloved and popular,

and she is who
we come to know as...

- Glinda, Galinda the Good

of the Upper Uplands.

- The other character
is the green girl,

not beloved, not loved even
by her own family,

who possesses, however,
a kind of magic power

that nobody else in Oz
seems to possess.

- Who is what we end up knowing

as the Wicked Witch, Elphaba.

- 25 years ago,
I first came across

Gregory Maguire's novel,
"Wicked."

At the time, I was
developing it as a film.

Each screenplay felt, to me,
that it was missing something.

And then, one day,
I got a phone call

from Stephen Schwartz.

- Listen, I know you're trying
to do this as a movie.

I think it should start
as a stage musical.

I really feel
I know how to do this.

- And the moment
he said "music,"

a light bulb went off
in my head.

We put the show on Broadway.

- The songs, the sisterhood
between Elphaba and Glinda,

Glinda's comedy,
seeing Kristin Chenoweth

originate this role,
seeing her on Broadway...

- I'd never heard anything
or seen anything like it.

I think the idea of turning
the concept

of what "The Wizard of Oz" was
on its head

and seeing it from
someone else's point of view

really shook me.

- When I first
joined "Wicked,"

the number one thing was
let's get the script in shape.

How close was it going to be
for the show?

How cinematic could it be?

But the real heavy lifting,

the big thing
that loomed all over us

was you don't have a story

if you don't have
Glinda and Elphaba.

So we went on
the biggest casting search

that I've ever been a part of
across all continents,

and it took us a long time
to find the right people.

[dramatic music]

- Did you know deep, deep, deep
in your heart and your gut

that this was your role?

- I hoped,
but I don't want to put that--

- Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

I'm like, "Wake me up
when it's over,

"and if it happened,
if it's real,

let me know when it's real."

But I--
- Right, yes.

- What was your process like,
your audition process?

- The audition for me was,
like, three hours

of me singing and acting
with two other actresses.

It was a pretty emotional day.

So I guess I threw everything
into that audition.

[singing intensely]

* *

[piano chord clangs]

- Whoo!

[applause]

- Well, I had
the opposite experience.

I stalked Marc Platt
for ten years...

- [chuckles]

- Wondering, when would
an audition be possible?

As I kind of got wind that it
was coming closer and closer,

I went to voice lessons and
acting lessons and, every day,

was trying to get ready because
it's so different vocally

from what I usually sing.

* Less fortunate than I *

* And let's face it *

And I remember,
by the end of my final test,

my eyelashes were...
- [laughs]

- Nowhere near
where they should be.

They were here.

So I was like,
"Thank you so much.

Well--" and I stuck them
on the mirror.

I was like, "Well, bye.
That's all, folks."

I went to the car
and collapsed.

And then, from then, it was
3 and 1/2 weeks, I think.

- Yeah,
actually hearing the words

that the part was mine was
beyond a dream come true.

I finally get the call.

- And, Cynthia, I don't know
what [...] planet

you came from,
but we are so blessed

to have you
in the room every time

we meet you, every time
I get to talk to you.

- And there's utter disbelief.

- And we would love for you
to be our Elphaba in "Wicked."

- I cover my eyes,
and I cry my eyes out,

because you just don't
expect it to happen

when it happens even if
you know it might happen.

You know?
- Mm-hmm, it's a wild feeling.

- Yeah.

- To wait so long,
and finally the call came.

- We made you wait a long time

for all your auditions
and things,

and you came in,
you told us how much

"Wicked" means to you.
[dog barking]

You've written letters...

- Toulouse!
Toulouse, stop! Toulouse!

[dog barking]

Toulouse!

- My kid's running around,
too, so it's all good.

- I'm sorry.

Just like you,
it's, like, that feeling

when all of a sudden...
- All this to say...

- And you're like,
"Hm, if I didn't get it,

this is the meanest way..."

- It's the worst way
to find out.

- "Someone could
ever tell me ever."

- 'Cause we want you
to be our Glinda the Good

in the "Wicked" freaking movie.

- [laughing, gasping]
I don't know what to say!

Oh, my God, thank you so much!

I love her so much!

I'm going to take
such good care of her!

Thank you so much!

I don't believe it still.
Today, I don't believe it.

- It's so crazy.
We actually did that.

- [chuckles]
That's crazy.

Thank God.
Thank Oz.

- Thank goodness.

- Pink goes good with green.

- Goes well with green.
- It so does.

[soft piano music]

* *

My Miss Elphaba.

Look at you.

Hm, you're beautiful.

- I think the thing people
are so attracted to...

- Yeah.
- Is the story of sisterhood

and best friendship
and the laughter

and the love
and the connection there,

but also what lies beneath it

and the story that it tells
on a bigger scale

is so relevant
and necessary today,

and it's just so beautiful.

- Both of these characters
have such differences in them,

and they're both quirky
in their own ways,

but I think that that
makes them really beautiful.

- Mm-hmm.

- I think there's
a wonderful essence

of trying to share
with everyone

that one's difference
doesn't make them wrong or bad.

It just makes them special.

And I think that that's
a bigger, wider idea

that we can all share
with the world, yeah.

- * Something has changed
within me *

[soaring orchestral music]

- She doesn't give a twig
what anyone thinks.

- * Something is
not the same *

- Of course, she does.
She just pretends not to.

* *

- Hi, I'm Michelle Yeoh,
the influential headmistress,

Madame Morrible.

- [claps]
Listen!

- Still to come on
"Defying Gravity,"

costumes,

choreography,

music,

the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
himself, Jeff Goldblum,

and the dashing
Jonathan Bailey.

- Johnny Bailey.

- Can I talk
about "Wicked" too?

- So don't go anywhere
as we raise the curtain

on more secrets and surprises.

.

[soaring orchestral music]

- Like,
they don't even know that--

they talk amongst themselves
and don't hear the world.

Like, we can talk about them
out loud,

and they don't even know what's
happening in the outside world.

Like, they have no idea that
we're talking about them...

- Wait, what?

- Because they're just
in their own world.

- What are you talking about?

- When you guys talk to
each other, nobody exists.

[laughter]

- Hello.
- Johnny Bailey.

- Good to see you.
- Hello, ladies.

- Jonathan.
- Hi.

- Come and hang out
with me over here.

- Shut up.
- By the Winkie machine.

- County, yes, yes.
- Yeah.

I am the captain
of the Winkie county.

- [laughs]

- I'm Fiyero Tigelaar.

Winkie Country.
- Oh, Oz.

[crowd murmuring]

- What is your relationship
to "Wicked,"

what you felt when you saw it,
all those things?

- First "Wicked" memory?

- Well, you know,
the first time I saw it,

I saw a preview when it
first came over to London...

- Oh, wow.

- With Idina Menzel and
Adam Garcia playing Fiyero.

And, obviously,
it was mind-blowing,

but I remember specifically
that Idina Menzel corpse

and was giggling
in a brilliant way,

and I really enjoyed that.

So that was my first
introduction to it,

and I feel like we've kept
that going, that legacy,

of giggling
all the way through.

- My first experience
was with the music

first before seeing the show.
- Yeah.

- And I learned it all before
I actually saw the show.

And then, finally,
for my 25th birthday,

I took myself
to see it by myself.

- That's so cute.
- I went on a solo date.

- So you would have been
a bit younger.

- I was ten years old.

I had the incredible privilege

of seeing the original
Broadway cast.

I ended up being able
to go backstage,

and then I went to
Kristen's dressing room,

and she didn't do, like,
a pause at the door

and, like, a hello.
She literally was like...

[as Kristin Chenoweth]
"Oh, come in! Come in!"

[laughter]

And she gave, like, me a wand.

She gave me
a little pink body wash.

She said it was magical,
and it may have been, actually.

Her dog peed on the couch.
I helped her clean it up.

It was like a dream.

- I'm so sorry, Miss.
We didn't see you there.

You must have...
blended with the foliage.

- Is this how
you go through life,

just running amok and trampling
anyone in your path?

- No.

[horse snorts]

No, sometimes I'm asleep.

- One thing from the original
theater production

that everyone loved
is the sets.

We're going to now have a look
at how Nathan Crowley,

our incredible
production designer,

created these
extraordinary worlds

that we existed in.

[enchanting music]

- Cinema to me has to be epic.

If we're going to make
"Wicked,"

it has to be cinematic.

We have to do something
the stage show can't do.

We have to show
this incredible world.

We have to go behind
the scenes

and show everything.

* *

How do you make
this fantastical place

that we've never seen before?

How do you find
a way in visually?

You have to make up
your own version of it.

- Our version is,
we build that [ding].

We build it.

We knew that we wanted Oz
to be immersive.

Let's touch it.
Let's feel it.

We can actually go into
the forest and climb a tree.

We got to grow
9 million tulips.

We got to build Munchkinland.

We got to build
the yellow brick road.

- Ah, this is the first time

I've seen this train
come into this city.

Brilliant, that's the image
I've been waiting for.

Let's go back here
and look at it.

- You want to touch the walls
of the Emerald City,

see your reflection in it.

- This is
the throne room theater,

and what you're standing under
is the animatronic

physical head that is going up
here on these hydraulic rigs

and is going to be
puppeteered...

- I am Oz.

- [whispers]
Say something.

Say something.
- What am I supposed to say?

- Anything.

- We have a lot of nature
embedded in

the production design.

We really wanted Oz to be
a place of deeper power,

that there is synergy
of nature that comes through,

and part of that is
this animal community.

They work side-by-side
with other human Ozians.

They've been professors.
They've been doctors.

They've been students.

We have this animal band
that's playing in the Ozdust.

There's also the beloved
Doctor Dillamond.

He has these gadgets
that allow him to use

a magnifying glass
or sweep the floor.

The tables are different
shapes and sizes

and different heights,
and bowls are different ways

for different animals to eat.

They are a culture
that is deeply embedded

in the land of Oz,

and all of this didn't
just take production design.

It took special effects.
It took visual effects.

That sense of detail
makes you believe

that Oz actually exists.

[enchanting music]

* *

- Look what I found.

- Yeah, my pile of things
that I'm stealing.

- Let's see.

- I'm excited to attempt
to get through

airport security with this.
I will take-- you can't--

I don't think I'll be stopped.
- No, you should--

- You know?
We have to take...

- Yes, for sure.
- These home.

But it's, like,
kind of emotional.

- Yeah, you become
really attached to them.

- I don't want to let go of it.
- Yeah.

- Yeah, and we have
Elphie's things here,

these beautiful, beautiful
hat and iconic broom.

- I wouldn't be surprised
if you grew the tree

and you etched it yourself.

- I knew that I wanted it
to feel really organic.

- How does that feel for you?
- I love it.

So John and I set about
looking for, like,

the roots of different trees.

- Mangroves, isn't it?

- Mangroves,
that's right, yeah.

- Made it really easy
for you to catch.

- Yes, well, the thing is,

I got really used to,
like, how to hold it

and how to catch it
if I needed to.

- But she can catch a broom.
It can be anywhere.

- But I think I just got
really attached to it.

I sort of, like, understood it.

- I almost broke my nose
on a broom.

- This is true.
- This is true.

I was supposed to catch one.
My face caught it.

- That was a day.
- Yeah, it was wild.

- You two on set,
it's like a live wire

and an earth wire together,
and it's interesting.

You see these two props here,

and they're so reflective
of this sort of

special nature of both of you.

- We're so lucky to have these
physically grounding pieces...

Jess, is this your favorite one
to put on me?

When you put the costume on,
when you put her shoes on,

when you hold our things
and wear our crowns,

when we're supported by
such brilliant artists

who designed these pieces

that just take it
to the next level.

[dramatic music]

- So let's talk about the fact
that obviously

it's pink and green...
- Yes.

- But you were
actually, literally,

green every day.
- Very true.

So I knew that
if I looked at myself

and didn't see the green,
I don't think I could have

made the connection to Elphaba
as much as I did.

And something happens
when all of that green is on,

the freckles go on,
and the hair goes on,

the makeup goes on,
the eyes go on,

and it's not me I'm looking at.
It's her.

But also, something happens
when you walk into a room,

especially when you have
lots of

background artists
in the room,

and the first time
they meet you,

you're green.
- Yeah.

- Something happens
to the DNA in the space.

- I agree.
The energy shifts.

- Yeah.

* *

- Oh!
You're green.

* *

- I am.

- Coming up, our fellow Ozians

will be reflecting
on their time in Oz.

Bowen Yang...

- Hey.
- Hi

- Marissa Bode...

- This is my younger sister,
Nessarose.

- And...
- Boq Woodsman...

- Ethan Slater.
- Of Munchkinland.

- So don't go flying off.
We'll be right back.

.

[soaring orchestral music]

- Everyone say hi.
- Hi, honey.

- Sweetheart, you can take
the girl out of Shiz,

but you can't take the Shiz
out of the girl.

- Oy vey, is that the truth.

Welcome back.

Now, as you know,
a lot of our movie

is set in the Emerald City,

but our characters meet
at dear old Shiz University.

- And that's where
we're heading now.

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome new students.

And "congratulotions" for
having been accepted to Shiz.

We have nothing but
the highest hopes

for some of you.

[crowd chuckles]

[applause]

- We're at Shiz!

We're at our school.

- I don't know how familiar
people are with the story,

but Boq arrives at Shiz
on the same day as everyone.

You know, Boq sees Glinda
and is so overwhelmed

with this, like, love
that he's feeling for her

right away.
- I'm Boq.

- This huge crush.
- I'm from Munchkinland.

- Yes.

- And she redirects his energy
towards Nessa,

which is--
- Yes, terrible.

- Go ask her right now?
- Why not?

She's right there.

- Which is...
- Not great.

- Just hard,
but also is the beginning

of this relationship
between the two of them.

- Yeah.

- Well, it unfolds
in a really fun way.

- I think you guys had
the very challenging thing

of selling,
through the choreography,

like, the courtship
between Nessa and Boq.

I actually have, like,
some amazing videos

on my phone of the two of us,
but, like, early on.

- Like, I've done
no choreography

in my life, really.

I'm so grateful that they hired
a wheelchair dancer

to help choreograph it
because I feel like

nobody knows better, like, how
to move throughout the space.

- She's amazing.
- So amazing.

- I also dance in this film.

- * Dear Galinda,
you are just too good *

- I had to sell the idea

that we were, like,
extensions of Glinda,

right, that we were
flanking her at all times.

So we had to, like,
be like Ari,

in the choreography, at least.

I passed you.
Damn it!

[laughter]

Christopher Scott,
our choreographer,

pulled one on me and said,
"You're a dancer, Bowen."

And I believed him.

- * Nothing matters *

- And then I realized that
he did that to everybody.

No, everybody was a dancer,

and he really did
make you believe.

He gave you the confidence...
- Yeah.

- And the tools.

Every part of the choreography
told a story.

[dramatic music]

* *

- Movement is such a huge part
of the language in Oz.

Movement is an expression
of your feelings.

When words aren't enough,
what makes it feel like

the best night of your life.

- To create a world
through song, through dance,

is really challenging.

The story has influenced
every piece of choreography.

It becomes a language,

and it becomes dialogue
that they're having.

- How do we create this
so it feels

like it's of you, from you?

How do we make it
feel connected?

- But also finding beats
to build in comedy?

Respectfully, this might be
the Glinda-fied version,

and that was
a fun balance to find.

- There was so much space given
to come in

and create something
of your own.

- I've been seeing people
come up with new ideas

of how to play off of
the architecture,

and it just changes the way
that you move your body.

- We find the spaces.

We find the nooks and crannies

that we work into
our choreography,

our blocking, our camera work.

- We had this massively
huge set for Glinda's suite.

It became this huge playground
for Jon, me, and Chris

to start to experiment with how
to tell a story through dance.

- * La, la, la, la *

- So you've got
these two women

and then all these
contraptions that open up.

We did, a couple of times,
remove things,

like the roof of the set,
so we could do bed shots,

and we poked our crane through
a couple of times

through the front door
and the balcony door.

- You know, telling this story
through a beautiful shot

that takes you
from here to there,

the nuances of
the actors' performances,

I've seen that grow so much.

- The camerawork,
the lighting,

and the choreography,
it's unlimited creativity

as long
as it serves the story.

- Why not make it that
when you're making

the movie version of "Wicked"?

Paint with all the colors
of the rainbow.

- [screams]

- We got that.
That was great.

- This is kind of
an action movie.

There's, like, a lot of action.
- Totally.

So there's, like,
stunt work happening.

- Yeah.

- And Marissa did more stunts
than either of us.

- Ooh, yeah.
- I did do a lot of stunts.

Very fun for me, to be honest.
- It was sick.

- Like, they were scared that I
would be scared on the wires.

They started off very slow.

I'm like, "Yes,
pick up the speed please."

- Right.
- "This is so fun."

- Lock me in, let's go.
- Yes.

And by the end of it,
I was zooming through the air.

- Action!
- [screams]

- I'm glad they didn't have
a stunt double for me, like,

or, like, had someone else
do the stunts

because I was like,
"No, I want to."

- I'm doing them.
- Yeah.

- Ugh.

- Oh!
[laughs]

Oh!

[dramatic music]

- The preparation for this
was so much fun.

Cynthia and I would do
stunt training,

different kinds of training
because this film,

it gets physical.

- Three, two, one, action.

- The action
that we design is--

you know, it primarily
has to be emotionally based.

Is it aggressive
or is it vulnerable?

You know, we have to do all of
that within our body language.

There are times
when we have to do,

working with the dancers
and the parkour people

and the stunt people,
seeing what they could

physically do
and making it exciting.

Some of the guys are going
from one ladder to the next,

you know, the wheels doing,
like, a revolution

and changing your weight
and making it look effortless.

Coming up with the most
creative fight sequences

that we could,
like with the guards

after the girls in the attic

on their way up
to the balloon.

- They're in it, and so
the soldiers are climbing,

and they're throwing sandbags
at them to try to get them out,

and eventually,
it burns to the ground.

[basket thuds]

And, of course,
"Defying Gravity."

- Heave!

- I knew
when I was going into this

that stunts would be needed,

and I knew that I wanted
to do my own stunts.

* *

- And that takes balls.
- Thank you.

- It takes balls.
- [chuckles]

- Thanks, Mama Jo.
- Honestly, well done.

- Thank you.

We had a moment where
I had to fly around on wires,

and I could hear
this little girl,

and she's stood by the monitor,

go...
[gasps]

"Whoa!"

* *

It's one of the moments
that made me understand

why I do this.

* *

- Some of my other
favorite stunt memories

were the moments that were
in-between the stunts.

- This one
jumping off the side.

- No, I had to be in
a harness one time,

and not to fly, just so that I
didn't fall off the banister,

but I didn't come close
to falling off the banister.

Only when we were not filming--

- Did she jump
off the side of it.

- By accident.

- Oh!

- Oh, no.
I might have.

Sorry.
I'm sorry.

- All right, folks.
OK, folks.

- Everyone gets so nervous.
Oh, God, I'm so sorry.

So we would go home
and text each other

and be like, "Do you also
have four missing nails..."

- [laughs]
- "And bruises?"

- We have pictures of just,
like, broken nails...

- What are these bruises from?

- And half-painted hands
and bruises.

- Not again!
Not again!

But I miss it.
- We love it though.

- Coming up,
the man, the legend,

the wizard himself has just
landed in Emerald City.

- Nice to see you.
Nice to see you.

- Brace yourself for the quite
impossible to describe,

Jeff Goldblum, next.

.

[soaring orchestral music]

[together]
* We're just two friends *

- * Two good friends *

- * Two best friends *

[together]
* Sharing one wonderful *

- * One short *

[together]
The wizard will see you now.

[together]
* Day *

- And look at this.

It is our wonderful
Wizard of Oz.

- Jeff Goldblum.
- Yes.

Hello.
- Hello to you.

- Oh! Thank you.
- And hello to you.

- Oop!
- Oh.

Butterfingers, butterfingers.

- Thank you, Wizard.

- Thank you very much
for our gifts, there.

- We love you so much.
- We love you.

[enchanting music]

- You want to see
something amazing?

- Yeah.

- This is all about our
wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Do you know how he got here?

From the sky, in a balloon.

[dramatic music]

Then he built
a city made of emeralds.

You want to know a secret?

[whispers]
If you get to meet him...

[fireworks whistling
and booming]

He grants your heart's desire.

- I am Oz.

[machinery whirs]

Uh, sorry about all that.
I didn't mean to startle you.

[tender music]

- I'm a sucker
for a lot of stories,

including "Wizard of Oz."

It never failed
to enchant me and grip me.

- It's Jeff Goldblum.

- I love this man.
Do you know that?

- Yesterday, I did a scene
with the both of them,

plus Michelle Yeoh.

If I died right after
that day's work,

I'd be happy.

* *

- We are so happy.

- You know, when I first
went to the theater,

it was a new show
20 years ago on Broadway.

I was in New York.

And that music,
by the end of the show,

suffice it to say,
I was in an emotional

emergency-room condition.
- Absolutely.

- I was kind of wailing,
trying not to wail with people

leaving the theater around me.
- Absolutely.

- Boo.

And I think I wailed out,

"I didn't know they were
going to be best friends!"

Well, cut to, 20 years later,
this version.

Those of you out there who,
in a few days,

may see this,
and enjoy it in a big way.

- I knew you'd understand.

That makes me--
that makes me so happy.

- Well, that's what
I love best,

making people happy.

- Hey, can I mention,
the whole production design

of this movie...
- Yes.

- Mm-hmm.
- It's unusual, isn't it?

It's a so-called
practical set.

And I've been here and there,

and I've done these
green-screen movies.

Nothing like this.
This is unusual.

Nothing like it,
and I think, on film,

one will feel it.

And certainly doing it,
it supports

and helps the actor.

- Guards.
Bring her to me.

- The things that were
made for this film,

you can't even fathom how much
work and how much detail.

- Like the costumes.
It's just so brilliant.

[enchanting music]

* *

- I was always reacting to
what Nathan was coming up with

as far as the architecture
in the spaces.

I was reflecting that in
the silhouettes of the people

and the textures
of their clothing,

in jewelry, on buttons.

All of that was
very specifically

designed for this world.

So we're tapping into
all of these amazing,

very talented artisans
in creating this film

so that we can get
the most original look

that we possibly can.

Just a little more roll
or something.

It is a world of contrasts.

With Elphaba, I used a lot
of pleating and felting.

I wanted to align her
with the animal world.

With Glinda,
a world without worry.

It was important
for me to render her

in that kind of quality
as she aligns

with this sensibility of good.

- You're beautiful.

- The costume goes from
being an idea,

which is the potential
essence of a character,

to being a realized garment.

Once you have an actor
in the costume,

it attains a soul.

[heels click]

- [vocalizing]

* *

- Hey, I've taken out
my device...

- Yes.

- Not just because
I'm a nincompoop and addicted,

which I am a little bit,
but because I wanted

to show you something.
Look at this.

Look at this again.
- Oh!

- Look at the young...
- That is crazy.

- Ariana Grande.

- Why do we both kind of look
exactly the same still?

- Well...
- Just as excited.

- I don't know how much
the same I look.

You look, you know--

- So happy.
- Just as excited to be--

- That's me, myself and I
after I've come off stage

in Shubert Alley,
famous Shubert Alley...

- In "The Pillowman."
- After doing "The Pillowman."

- I saw you twice in that.

I stopped at
the stage door twice.

And you stopped at
the stage door twice.

You always took time.
It was--

Ugh, please look at
how excited I am.

I'm so sorry.

- Well, anyway, I love
this picture so much.

- We love you.
- You made our time so special.

- You did.

- And I don't think
you understand

what you did to our hearts.

Thank you for being
the best wizard.

- Coming up, reimagining
"Wicked's" iconic score

for the big screen.

And Jonathan has a surprise
for Cynthia and Ariana,

defying expectations
with something

they've never seen before.

- What the heck?

.

[soaring orchestral music]

- Welcome back to
our world of "Wicked."

We are just
casually discussing

how much we love
the music in this movie

and what an honor it's been
to sing these songs

and sing with each other.
- Yes, very much.

- I am--

- Never singing
with anyone else again.

- I have been so spoiled
by the experience

of hearing
Cynthia Erivo sing...

- Talk about yourself.
- Every day.

- What? Are you joking?
- No, I'm sorry.

I just have to say.

[vocalizing together]

[together]
* My whole life long *

- I have loved singing
with you

- [screams]

- So it's probably one of the
greatest pleasures of my life,

to be able to sing with someone
who, like, understands music

so implicitly the way you do.
- I love you.

- You really--
- That's so kind.

- Yeah, this one, in "Popular,"

is running around the room,
honestly at break speed.

- * La, la, la, la *

- Jumping up on things,
hanging off a chandelier

at one point.

- You in "Defying Gravity,"
you're upside-down

and in the air and harnessed
and belting like it's nothing,

like it's absolutely nothing.
I was standing there.

I can tell you.

She's swooping--
flying in, landing perfectly.

Perfect pitch every single--
like, the most insane thing

I've ever seen in my life.

- I think that both of us
were doing ridiculous things

in order to tell these stories
through song.

- We do speak
the same language though.

- Yes, yes.
- That's been fun too.

We recorded rehearsal tracks,
but then also sang live on set,

which is something--
we both were like,

"We're singing."
- We're singing live.

- We are singing.
- That's it, yeah.

- But when we were recording
the rehearsal tracks

and the demos, I, like,
took a stab at vocal producing.

And I was like,
"I think she's going to like

this choice, this choice,
this choice."

And I called you
and invited you over,

and you were like, "Great."
- Yes, thank you.

- Yep, there we go.
[squeals]

- I hope you enjoy the work
that we put into it.

- We sang everything.

- [laughs]
Absolutely everything.

- Take a look.
- Yes.

* Everyone deserves
a chance to fly *

I can do it.
It's good.

- Well, I think there are
a couple of things

that make "Wicked"
an ideal subject

for musicalization.

- * I hope you're happy,
I hope you're happy now *

* I hope you're happy how
you hurt your cause forever *

* I hope you think
you're clever *

- * I hope you're happy *

* I hope you're happy too *

- The characters have
these inner thoughts

that it's very difficult
to dramatize

if they're not singing them

[together]
* I can't imagine how *

* I hope you're happy *

* Right now *

- One of the reasons why it was
so important to do this live

was not only because
we're all theater people

who wanted to so badly,
but also because

of the emotional element.

- We would be further connected
to the words we were saying,

the music we were hearing,
the story we were telling,

and to each other.

[together]
* There's no fight *

* We cannot win *

* Just you and I *

* Defying gravity *

* With you and I *

- The people
who created the show,

they're excited
about the music

that we're bringing back,

and it means so much
to be able

to experience that with them.

- "Wicked" was the first show
I conducted on Broadway.

And it's a 23-piece orchestra,

and now this will be close
to a hundred people

playing together.

[bright orchestral music]

It's about
scaling up everything

and making all of
the musical moments

really inhabit the world.

This vision is going to be
extraordinary on a big screen.

* *

- * Defying gravity *

* I'm flying high *

* Defying gravity *

* And soon I'll match them
in renown *

* *

- Fantastic, fantastic.
- Incredible.

- Wow, that was really good.
- Very cool.

- I'm really excited
for everyone to see

how all of these iconic things
have been reimagined.

And I think one of the things

that has been reimagined
so well

is in the casting choices,
honestly.

Michelle Yeoh as Morrible
is, like,

such an inspired choice to me.

- Unreal, and, like, won the
Oscar while we were filming.

- Yeah.

- Do you remember, like,
she entered the space...

- Yes, wait,
I have video of it.

- Yeah.
- Do you really?

- I do, I do.
Here, here.

Like, this is, like, Jon.

There it is!
- That's a full-on Oscar.

- That's a full Oscar.

- Which was a really huge
celebratory moment

for everyone.
- For everyone.

And she made it that way
because she literally

flew to set the next day...
- Whoo!

It's got my name on it.

- After winning her Oscar

and then, like,
let everybody hold it,

let everybody
take pictures with it.

- I think it just shows
how special all of this

is to Michelle, too, like,
going in the next day...

- Yes.
- To be a part of this.

Just so cool.

- We're here today on the set,

and it will be
the last time that we're

all together at the end
of this massive journey.

Do you remember, on day one,
Jon Chu asked

you both to look into camera
and to give yourself

a message to the future
version of yourself.

- Oh, my.
- Yeah.

- I don't remember what I said.
I remember it happening.

- No, I can't remember
what I said either.

- Should we have a little look?
- Oh, no.

- Oh, dear.

- Anything to say
to your future self?

And you can say it to her
right there.

- Oh, no, to my future self?

[chuckles]
Oh, my gosh.

I hope you're happy.
No.

- What do you have to say
to your future self?

Right there.
- All right.

Hi, Cynthia.
[chuckles]

Um, I'm not sure if you thought
you would be here at any point.

This is a rare thing
to be able to be doing.

- I've never felt
this way before,

as excited
and positively nervous,

in a good way,
as I do ready and sure.

And that's something
I learned from Glinda.

- I hope that you've come
to the end of this

and you still feel
really grateful

and cling on tight
to those around you

who are in it with you still.

And remember to keep them
in your lives.

What the heck?
- We're stuck with you.

Don't worry.
You've got us.

- Thank you.
Oh, my.

- Well...
- [laughs]

- That was actually
really wonderful to see.

Quite emotional for me
because I feel like

I am really grateful, and
I got some new family members.

- Me too.
- Yeah.

- We will definitely
keep each other in our lives.

We'll do a good job with that.
- You're stuck.

- We've already done
such a good job with it.

- Stuck with me.
- And we will continue to.

- Next, the moment
we've all been waiting for,

the curtain finally rises
on a world exclusive

from our new movie, "Wicked."

So wait just a clock tick.

We'll be right back.

.

[soaring orchestral music]

* *

- Hello, welcome back
to Emerald City.

- So at the very beginning
of this,

we told you that this is
a world of unexpected things.

Well, here is an unexpected
thing for you from us.

- Here is an exclusive look
at a scene

from our new film, "Wicked."

[quirky orchestral music]

* *

- * What is this feeling,
so sudden and new? *

- * I felt the moment
I laid eyes on you *

- * My pulse is rushing *
- * My head is reeling *

- * Well, my face is flushing *

[together]
* What is this feeling? *

* Fervid as a flame *

* Does it have a name? *

* Yes *

* Loathing,
unadulterated loathing *

- * For your face *
- * Your voice *

- * Your clothing *

[together]
* Let's just say *

* I loathe it all *
- [gasps]

[together]
* Every little trait *

* However small *

* Makes my very flesh
begin to crawl *

* With simple utter loathing *

* There's a
strange exhilaration *

* In such total detestation *

* It's so pure, so strong *

* Though I do admit
it came on fast *

* Still, I do believe
that it can last *

* And I will be loathing *

* Loathing you
my whole life long *

[together]
* Dear Galinda *

* You are just too good *

* How do you stand it?
I don't think I could *

* She's a terror!
She's a tartar! *

* We don't mean
to show a bias *

* But, Galinda,
you're a martyr *

- Well...

* These things are sent
to try us *

[crowd gasping]

* *

[together]
* Poor Galinda *

* Forced to reside with
someone so disgusticified *

* We just want to tell you,
we're all on your side *

* We share your loathing *

- * What is this feeling,
so sudden and new? *

* I felt the moment
I laid eyes on you *

* My pulse is rushing,
my head is reeling *

[together]
* We loathe it all! *

- * Oh, what is this feeling? *

[together]
* Trait, however small *

- * Does it have a name? *

* Yes *

* Oh *

* Loathing, there's
a strange exhilaration *

- * Loathing *
- * In such total detestation *

- * Loathing *
- * It's so pure *

* So strong *

* Though I do admit
it came on fast *

* Still I do believe
that it can last *

* And I will be loathing
for forever *

* Loathing, truly *

* Deeply loathing you *

- * Loathing you *
- * My whole life long *

- * Unadulterated loathing *

- Oh!

* *

[clears throat]

- Boo!
- [screams]

- [laughs]

[laughter]

- Thank you so much for
visiting Oz with us tonight.

- Please go and see
our movie "Wicked."

And from us to you...
- Happy holidays.

- And goodbye.

[laughter]
- Hey, hey, hey.

This is not "Ben-Hur."
Hey!

[triumphant orchestral music]

* *