The actress offered a sneak peek at her performance of musical number “The Wizard and I”
Cynthia Erivo stopped by The Tonight Show to discuss the pressures and pleasures of taking on the role of Elphaba in the forthcoming film adaptation of Wicked. At the end of her chat with host Jimmy Fallon, Erivo shared a never-before-seen clip from the movie teasing her performance of beloved music number “The Wizard and I.”
Fallon also convinced Erivo to offer a preview of her rendition of “Defying Gravity,” the Broadway musical’s most memorable song. The actress admitted that she ended up doing the song “slightly different” than how the number was written. “I did study it,” she admitted. “When I first auditioned that’s what I did. I did it as was written.”
She added that the audition was “crazy” and lasted for three hours. “I was…
