, whose new movie Moana 2 debuted in US theaters on November 27, 2024, divided many people online after encouraging. Now, he has found an ally in Wicked‘s, who agrees that patrons should sing along with musical numbers if they want to.
Cynthia Erivo portrays Elphaba Thropp in the 2024 cinematic adaptation of Wicked. Based on the stage musical of the same name, the movie has quite a few musical numbers.
Accordingly, when Erivo appeared in the NBC booth at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, she was asked what she thought about people in theaters singing along with tracks such as “Defying Gravity” and “Popular.” “Good!
I’m OK with it,” Erivo stated. “We’ve spent this long singing it ourselves, it’s time for everyone else to join in.” (via TVLine) Erivo’s comment comes a few days after Johnson made his opinion clear on the matter. “Sing!
You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you’ve gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing,” he said in an interview with the BBC.