‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Previews Two New Songs From Anticipated Sequel: ‘They’re Questioning, ‘What Is Home?’

Two months earlier the anticipated sequel Wicked: For Good hits theaters connected Nov. 21, manager Jon M. Chu is giving a preview of 2 caller songs from composer Stephen Schwartz illustrating the communicative of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande).

“They’re questioning, ‘What is home? And what happens erstwhile you are warring for a location that you recognize doesn’t adjacent privation you there, oregon was ne'er meant for you? Do you support it? Do you combat for it? Does anyone other deliberation of location the aforesaid arsenic you?'” Chu told EW astir the follow-up to the top-grossing film based connected a Broadway philharmonic ever. “Those questions are precise absorbing and applicable to Elphaba’s journey.”

Chu said 1 of those questions for Glinda the Good is what is her explanation of home? “Glinda is the 1 that has to yet popular her ain bubble,” Chu said. “She has to permission her privilege to really spot different people’s struggles and combat for justness and equality.”

Chu warned fans of the archetypal that grossed much than $750 cardinal internationally not to look for “contemporary commentary” successful Schwartz’s caller compositions, describing them arsenic doing what each bully “timeless” tales do: “They inquire america elemental questions of being human, not conscionable the large parts — the celebratory, joyful parts of being quality — but the scary, acheronian parts that trial us. Everybody thinks it’s astir this time, and yet it’s astir each time. We are a small spot bully and we each are a small spot wicked, and however bash we navigate that?”

While the archetypal landed champion histrion and champion histrion successful a supporting relation nods for Erivo and Grande, respectively, arsenic good arsenic champion archetypal score, Chu said the caller songs are not a specified bid to spell aft much Oscar love, but emotionally cardinal to the 2nd film’s story. “Even aft we recorded them, adjacent aft we enactment them successful the movie, we kicked the tires connected them to marque definite that we had to enactment them successful this movie,” helium said of the unnamed tracks. “Otherwise, it wasn’t worthy it.”

With “home” being specified a cardinal origin successful the full extended Oz universe, Chu revealed that the songs amplify that thought with some witches searching for their mode home. “Both of these songs are astir however to bash that, and it’s questions that I’ve ever wanted to perceive from them successful the signifier show, but ne'er got to,” helium said. “We get to instrumentality our clip and research those questions.”

Chu besides shared immoderate cardinal communicative lines of the sequel, revealing that the 2 witches are reunited sooner than successful the Wicked musical, with Erivo and Grande sharing much scenes unneurotic aft helium realized “‘It’s the girls, stupid!’ So, erstwhile one’s going done something, there’s thing that they’ve learned from the different that affects them, oregon the information the different idiosyncratic is not determination is portion of what can’t get them to their goal. It’s ever astir them.”

Part 2 is expected to diagnostic immoderate of the instrumentality favorites from the archetypal 2003 Broadway musical, including “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” and the tear-jerking Elphab...