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TheOrator.Press Film Page; Future Instagram Updates. Ariana, Cynthia & Wicked The Movie Part 1. A Few News Nuggets, Notes, Insights, Opinions And Photos “Holding Space” Here. April 2025
February 2025 At A Special Q & A Screening of Wicked Hosted By Renee Zellwegger And Cynthia Erivo A Little Girl Says“That’s Elphaba” Sounding Slightly Annoyed That A Male Adult In Her Life Didn’t Seem To Know That Already. She Cleary Doesn’t Appreciate Patronisation. Even As A Kid!
Karis Musongole Is Gorgeous In Green At The First Wicked Movie London Premiere November 18 2024 She Plays The Young Elphaba. @karis_musongole(A Parent Monitored Page)
That Wasn’t Even Me Asking A Question.
That Was Just Me Tee-ing Up A Question ‘What Does It Mean To Her In The Wake of The Election As A Queer Black Woman, That These Lyrics Have Taken On Extra Meaning?’
“Queer Media” Journalist Tracye Gilchrist On How Her Viral ‘Holding Space’ Phrase Came About During The Wicked Movie Press Tour Last November. She Was Talking Online To Toni Morrison of ‘Plus Life Media.‘
March 2025
Cynthia Erivo Peformed A ‘Wicked’ Wicked Medley At The Oscars With Co-Star Ariana Grande Sunday March 2nd 2025 And Audience Members Were Moved To Tears @cynthiaerivo
“I Have To Go.”
We Love The Power And Beauty of Well Articulated English Language And Oration Here At TheOrator.Press. It Is Indeed Our Namesake.
Elphaba’s Simple Declaration “I Have To Go” Provides The Perfect Emergency Exit Quickly And Efficiently. The Best Way To Make It Most Effective Is For One To Just Say It And Then Take One’s Leave Immediately. No Ifs’ No Buts’ Nor Uttered Excuses. As Such It Can Be Brutal So It’s Therefore Best Saved For Emergencies.
Actress Francesca Annis Used It To Brilliant Unforgetable Effect In The 1997 TV Drama Reckless (When She Says It To Co Star Robson Green). He Too Had Just Delivered A Compliment Which Seemed Too Much For The Recipient In That Moment..
What Was It? Well It’s A Great Production (Written By Paul Abbot of ‘Shameless’ Fame) And A Breathtaking Watch, So If You Really Want To Know The Answer Treat Yourself To An Old School TV Drama Shocker And Can Check It Out on Amazon Prime Video.
Anis Plays An Older Woman Married To A Dr, Who Has An Affair With A Junior Dr, Who Answers To Her Husband. Suffice To Say There’s A Memorable Scene Involving Some Reckless Alfresco Action of A Biological Nature, A Tree And A Moment Worthy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Temperatures Rise And It’s Literally The Stuff of Drs. And Nurses. So Don’t Bother Streaming If You Can’t Take The Heat And Think You Too Might Also Find Yourself Saying: “I Have To Go.”
How She Sounds Is Such An Integral Part of Glinda. I Just Wanted To Honour The Sorce Material Whilst Addressing My Own Tone And My Own Little Choices When It Self-Authentic.
Cynthia Eviro Sings Pinocchio And A Young Girl Is In Raptures, Happy & Delighted In Young Innocent BlissJust Watching Her
In A BBC Breakfast Interview Karis Revealed That She Had To Submit A Self-Tape And Read Lines From The Script. Director Johmchu Chose Her For The Role of Young Elphaba But It Was Her Agent Who Telephoned Her To Let Her Know. At Midnight!
She Was of Course In The Land of Nod So Her Mum Broke The Good News The Next Morning.
She Remembers One of The First Things Jon Showed Her Was A Pop-Up Book of The Film And Fake Pebbles That Would Be Used By The School Bullies To Taunt Her. And Which She Magically Disarms.
Cynthia Erivo Is A Vision At The 2025 Oscars Where She Sang A Melody of Hits From Wicked The Movie (For Which She Was Nominated For Best Actress)
Ariana & Cynthia Presented The Oscar 2024 For Best Song To Billy Elish And Her Brother Finneas (For “What Was I Made For” From Barbie).
At This Year’s Oscars They Were Each Nominated For Best Supporting Actress And Best Actress Respectively For Their Performances In Wicked (Which Also Includes Poignant Singing Albeit It In An Entirely Different Context).
In 2019 Erivo Starred In The Movie Harriet About Harriet Tubman The Anti-Slavery Hero And Warrier. She Was Nominated For Best Original Song At The Oscars 2020 For The Film’s Theme Song ‘Stand Up’. She Co Wrote It With Joshuah Brian Campbell.
The Oscar Was Awarded To Sir Elton John And Bernie Taupin For Their Song “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” From The Film Rocketman. That Film Would Probably Be Banned By The Re-Trumplican Administration Under Their Anti-DEI Purges (Which Include The Pro-Active Exclusion of Gay People And LGBT Initiatives).
Enola Gay The War Plane Has Even Been Purged From American Federal Websites Simply Because It Included The Word “Gay.”
The Classic 80s Track By Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) Is An Anti-War Song & A Great Sing-A-Long Dance Tune. Happily It Was Re-Mastered In 2019 And Is Still Available On YouTube.
In An Excellent Interview With @kevinmarthytv Ariana And Cynthia Discuss The Technological Intricacies of Their Vocal Training For The Film Compared To Their Usual Personal Singing Styles.
It Is A Masterclass In Powerful Singing, Physical Dedication And Voice Development. So Much So That The Interviewer And The Actors Are All In Awe of Each Other.
For Those of You Interested In Singing Oratory This Is An Interview Not To Be Missed. And Evidence of Why These Two Ladies Have Become Singing Goddesses. They’ve Both Worked Really Very Hard For It To Any Extremely High Professional Level.
Below: (0.40) Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande Open The Oscars 2025 With Powerhouse Performances That Has The Stellar Film Industry Audience In Tears. Betwwen Them They Sang:
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Ariana), Home (Cynthia), Defying Gravity (Together)
Mini Me ‘Karis_Musongole’ Assures Cynthia Erivo That She’s Very Happy At The London Wicked Premiere (November 2024). At The Last Leg of The Film’s Publicity Tour Erivo Was Just Checking In On The Actress Who Plays Her Younger Self In The Movie. @karis_musongole (A Parent Monitored Page)@cynthiaerivo
Karis Musongole Plays The Young Elphaba In Wicked The Movie And Here She Explains Why She Wants To Be Like Cynthia Erivo When She Grows Up. @karis_musongole(A Parent Monitored Page)
It’s Healing.
I Think.
Any Kind of Art And These Beautiful Artists.
And The Story of Friendship.
But Also This Story That Is Very Timely,
of This Fraud Who Found A Common Enemy Etc
“Queer Media” Journalist Tracye Gilchrist On How Her Viral ‘Holding Space’ Comment Came About During The Wicked Movie Press Tour Last November. She Was Talking Online To Toni Morrison of Plus Life Media.
March 2025
Director And Movie Magic Master Jon M Chu Could Not Have Timed The Release of Wicked The Movie Much Better In Terms of Its Underlying Tale of An Envious Hateful Wizard Stirring Up Hate Against A Falsely Vilified Woman And Different Groups. In Trump’s MAGA America Erasure of Black People, Their Achievements And History Is The Official Policy of The MAGA Administration Under Anti-DEI Executive Orders.
They Are Simultaneously Trying To Impose These Racist Policies On Countries Globally By Threatening Them With Economic Blackmail (Rather Like A Domestic Abuser Tries To Bully His Victim By Controlling Them Financially).
This As They Also Try To Operate Like Colonialists And Undermine, Disrespect or Dictate To Other Countries Including Ukraine, Canada, China, Gaza, And Greenland.
Trump Says He Has Not Ruled Out Military Action In Relation To Greenland, A Country Which Has Minimal Military Mite. This Is Another Example of MAGA Re-Trumplican America Acting Like A Bully And Picking On The Little Guy.
Co-Incidentally Trump Has Dismissed The Previous Board of The Kennedy Centre (of Performing Arts) And Made Himself Chairman of The Board. Not Even Art Cannot Escape Politics Right Now.
Trump Said He Would Be A Dictator From Day One. The Denigration of America From Being The Land of The Free, Leader of The Western World, And Democracy, With High Standards And Integrity Is Very Clearly Underway.
Ariana Grande Became A Judge On The Voice (America) In 2021 Alongside John Legend, Kelly Clarkson And Blake Shelton.
Speaking About Working On Wicked Since Then She Said: It Really Took Alot of Hardwork To Transform The Muscles In My Throat To Know What They Were Doing And So I’d Have The Tools That I Needed. I Think It Transformed Them Somewhat Permenantly.
It Really Took Alot of Hardwork To Transform The Muscles In My Throat To Know What They Were Doing And So I’d Have The Tools That I Needed. I Think It Transformed Them Somewhat Permenantly.”
When You Spend More Time Singing In That Classical Way It’s Better For The Whole Voice Really.””I Think I’m Able To Sing Healthier Now.
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