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The Friday Post.

Cynthia Erivo, some SZA freckles, and Ariana Grande in the Wicked poster.

When I first saw the poster for Wicked, the first of a pair of movie adaptations of the Broadway musical, I thought Huh, kinda weird they almost did the Broadway poster but not really. In both posters, Glinda the Good Witch (Ariana Grande, originated by Kristin Chenoweth) whispers into the ear of Elphaba (green, Cynthia Erivo in the movie, originated by Idina Menzel in the show). For the Wicked Broadway poster, Elphaba is smirking mischievously, like you ain’t seen nothing yet. For the movie, Elphaba is kind of staring blankly and with a smirk that reminds me of a white woman about to ask for the manager at an airport Hudson News or that one Alec Baldwin plea to “consider the source.”