{"id":584,"date":"2024-11-25T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=411362"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-heartwarming-story-behind-how-idina-menzel-and-kristin-chenoweth-got-wicked-cameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2024\/11\/25\/the-heartwarming-story-behind-how-idina-menzel-and-kristin-chenoweth-got-wicked-cameos\/","title":{"rendered":"The heartwarming story behind how Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth got Wicked cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t had the chance to watch Wicked yet &#8211; click off this article now. If you have, we NEED to talk about the wildest cameos in the film: Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, the original Wicked Broadway Glinda and Elphaba. But how did this cameo come to be? There&#8217;s a very heartwarming story behind it.<\/p>\n<h2>How the cameo happened<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wicked - Official Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6COmYeLsz4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Tony-winning duo were on Broadway back in 2003 and Wicked director Jon M. Chu told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/interviews\/idina-menzel-kristin-chenoweth-wicked-movie-cameo-what-happens-explained-1235067861\/\">IndieWire<\/a> he knew without a doubt he wanted them &#8220;somewhere in the movie.&#8221; The problem was just figuring out where.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time we put them as a cameo somewhere, it just felt not appropriate. It felt like it wasn\u2019t enough; it wasn\u2019t utilizing their talents. So when I was talking with Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz, we had this section, it was Wiz-a-Mania. I wanted it to be an amusement park ride, like, \u2018It\u2019s a Small World\u2019 where they get in a boat and it goes through this history of Oz. It was gonna be really fun, but it always felt like too much. And then I suggested: What if Kristin and Idina, that was a show that they were in, and they\u2019re the most famous actors in Emerald City? It just clicked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz then &#8220;rewrote the entire song&#8221; of One Short Day to fit Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth into a literally Wicked cameo. &#8220;He rewrote the whole song for them, and it was fantastic, his little nods to them. It gave them stuff to do, and it gave them sort of a handoff, and it got to show them off, and it got to allow us, the audience, the filmmakers, to pay homage to them and give them their applause.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The time crunch<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wicked | One Short Day\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8JBVI6WR0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One huge problem on set was that the director only had &#8220;one night&#8221; to film their part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We snuck them into London and from the sun down to sun up, that\u2019s when we got to shoot them, hidden away from the paparazzi cameras that were surrounding our sets,&#8221; Jon Chu said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said having the original team alongside shooting felt like a &#8220;full circle moment.&#8221; How wholesome!<\/p>\n<h2>What about Idina&#8217;s iconic riff?<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you definitely actually died when you heard Idina do her iconic Defying Gravity riff. 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