Watch Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Meticulously Rehearse ‘Popular,’ Years Before It Came to Life in ‘Wicked’

Practice makes perfect, adjacent for the pros. In grant of Wicked: For Good coming soon to theaters, Ariana Grande has shared a clip of 1 of her aboriginal rehearsals with Cynthia Erivo connected the acceptable of the films, giving fans a peek astatine however they brought fan-favorite opus “Popular” to beingness connected screen.

The video posted to Instagram connected Monday (Oct. 6) opens with the 2 starring ladies sitting broadside by broadside connected a prop bed. “Locked timing, instrumentality 1,” Grande — wearing a pinkish sweater to lucifer her character, Glinda — tells the camera.

The popular prima past proceeds to sing a fewer bars of “Popular,” her mentation of which appears successful the archetypal Wicked film and soundtrack. As she performs, she practices wrapping a pinkish sash astir her costar earlier humorously pushing her costar down onto the furniture erstwhile Erivo tries to get up.

“That’s the bit,” Grande says aft snapping retired of Glinda mode, with manager Jon M. Chu exclaiming from down the camera, “That is the timing, locked in!”

“tickets connected merchantability successful 2 days @wickedmovie for good,” she captioned the clip earlier revealing however agelong agone she and Erivo practiced the sequence. “(rehearsal, september 2022).”

The video shows conscionable however meticulous the Wicked team was erstwhile choreographing the philharmonic numbers for the films, with Grande and Erivo performing those aforesaid movements arsenic rehearsed successful the last chopped of “Popular” for the archetypal movie. This November, the saga volition travel to an extremity erstwhile For Good hits theaters astir precisely a twelvemonth aft Wicked premiered successful 2024.

The R.E.M. Beauty laminitis has been unfastened successful the past astir however earnestly she took preparations for Wicked, from extended dependable lessons to creation rehearsals. “I started grooming each azygous time with my vocal manager for two-and-a-half, 3 months earlier my archetypal audition, and my acting coach,” she said past year. “I conscionable wanted to beryllium prepared to usage immoderate instrumentality needed immoderate was asked, I wanted to beryllium capable to driblet successful and bash it and truly go [Glinda].”

Watch Grande signifier “Popular” with Erivo below.