Your Favorite Musical Is Finally Becoming A Movie
It's gonna be popular!
Do you scoff when people say "Frozen" was Idina Menzel's big breakout role? Did you blackmail your high school choir director into making your senior class sing "For Good" at graduation? Are you wearing a "Wicked" t-shirt from 2003 at this very moment?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we've got great news: you're getting a movie version of your favorite musical. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the film adaptation of the Broadway mega-hit will debut Dec. 20, 2019.
Directed by Stephen Daldry of the Tony-winning musical "Billy Elliot," the film will also get help from Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the book and score for the stage musical respectively.
No word yet on who will play the two main parts of Glinda and Elphaba, though Chenoweth told VH1 she'd love to see Dove Cameron and Lea Michele in the coveted roles.
If you're holding out for the OG witches to return to Oz, don't hold your breath. Menzel and Chenoweth are past their days of playing magical college students, but that doesn't mean we won't see them in the film—Chenoweth has said she'd be interested in playing Madame Morrible, the evil headmistress.
In Wicked's 13 year run, the three-time Tony award-winning show has raked in $3 billion in revenue—that's more money than any Universal film has ever made. Universal's 2008 "Mamma Mia" is the highest-grossing Broadway musical-to-movie adaptation of all time. Can "Wicked" beat the record? More importantly, will it get better ratings?
Are you audibly sobbing yet? Just watch Menzel and Chenoweth reunite last month to sing their heartwrenching duet, "For Good." That oughta do the trick.
Now can it just be Christmas 2019 already?