{"id":133837,"date":"2024-12-01T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=133837"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:47:20","slug":"heres-what-cynthia-erivo-has-to-say-about-fans-singing-along-to-wicked-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/heres-what-cynthia-erivo-has-to-say-about-fans-singing-along-to-wicked-in-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what Cynthia Erivo has to say about fans singing along to Wicked in theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>, the iconic <strong>Elphaba<\/strong> in \u201c<strong>Wicked<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0isn\u2019t just defying gravity\u2014she\u2019s defying old-school theater rules! During the 2024 Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor gave the green light for fans to sing along in theaters:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862234271723004330\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cynthia Erivo on fans singing along to \u2018Wicked\u2019 in theaters:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood! I\u2019m OK with it. We spent this long singing it ourselves, it\u2019s time for everyone else to join in. It\u2019s wonderful\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8LrxiB8ycO\">pic.twitter.com\/8LrxiB8ycO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862234271723004330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cGood! I\u2019m OK with it,\u201d she said in a chat with Today host Hoda Kotb. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent this long singing it ourselves; it\u2019s time for everyone else to join in. It\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>But this singing debate isn\u2019t new! <strong>AMC Theaters<\/strong> recently aired a video reminding moviegoers, \u201cSilence is golden. No talking. No texting. No singing.\u201d But with Wicked shattering records, including a $164.2M global opening weekend, fans clearly aren\u2019t keeping quiet. While traditionalists might not be feeling Cynthia&#8217;s approval for singing, they will have to cope!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862965329342959641\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Wicked\u2019 officially becomes the highest-grossing musical adaptation of all time at the domestic box office, surpassing \u2018Grease.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yF59ioe0KB\">pic.twitter.com\/yF59ioe0KB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1862965329342959641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Featuring<strong> Ariana Grande<\/strong> as Glinda, the movie has become the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in U.S. box office history, beating &#8220;Grease.&#8221; With Part Two slated for 2025, the hype is just getting started. With two weeks on display, it has become the third most important movie event of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Erivo, the iconic Elphaba in \u201cWicked,\u201d\u00a0isn\u2019t just defying gravity\u2014she\u2019s defying old-school theater rules! During the 2024 Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor gave the green light for fans to sing along in theaters: \u201cGood! I\u2019m OK with it,\u201d she said in a chat with Today host Hoda Kotb. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent this long singing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":133839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133837"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=133837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}