The Oscars 2024 telecast featured a number of cast member reunions from past movies, and one from a future movie, with Wicked’s Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

The 30-year-old Grande plays Galinda Upland (a.k.a. Glinda the Good Witch) and the 37-year-old Erivo plays Elphaba Thropp (a.k.a. Wicked Witch of the West) in Wicked.

While fans have to wait until November 27 to see this Broadway musical adaptation come to life on the big screen, the stars reunited on the Oscar stage.

They both presented two awards – Best Original Score and Best Original Song – and made a few Wicked jokes along the way.

Erivo began, ‘We’re here to present the oscars for original song and original score. A great movie song can set the mood, reveal something about a character, and help us tell a story.’

The Oscars 2024 telecast featured a number of cast member reunions from past movies, and one from a future movie, with Wicked’s Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

The 30-year-old Grande plays Galinda Upland (a.k.a. Glinda the Good Witch) and the 37-year-old Erivo plays Elphaba Thropp (a.k.a. Wicked Witch of the West) in Wicked

Grande added, ‘And a great film score can even leave a handprint on our hearts forever. It can ignite wonder and astonishment, make us feel sadness and longing, and can even transport us to new worlds.

Erivo added, ‘Or somewhere over the rainbow, where the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.’

Grande continued ‘Oh. How wickedly subtle of you,’ as Erivo added, ‘I do try,’ before revealing the nominees for Best Original Score.

Oppenheimer composer Ludwig Goransson ended up winning the award, besting Laura Karpman (American Fiction), John Williams (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things).

They also presented the Best Original Song award, which Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won for What Am I Made For from Barbie.

They beat out I’m Just Ken, also from Barbie, The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot

‘It Never Went Away’ from American Symphony and Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon

Wicked is set just before the arrival of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, following one-time friends Galinda and Elphaba.

The story is adapted from the hit Broadway musical of the same name, which is adapted from the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.

Grande added, ‘And a great film score can even leave a handprint on our hearts forever. It can ignite wonder and astonishment, make us feel sadness and longing, and can even transport us to new worlds.

They also presented the Best Original Song award, which Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won for What Am I Made For from Barbie

They beat out I’m Just Ken, also from Barbie, The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot ‘It Never Went Away’ from American Symphony and Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon

Wicked is set just before the arrival of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, following one-time friends Galinda and Elphaba

Source:https://www.dailymail.co.uk