"I Want To Be Glinda, Not Ariana Grande Playing Glinda": 15 "Wicked" Behind-The-Scenes Facts Specifically About "Popular"

In Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises connected Wicked, Ariana explained that erstwhile she heard that Wicked auditions were going to beryllium happening, she attended dependable and acting lessons to prepare. 

"It's truthful different, vocally, from what I usually sing," she added. 

Speaking astir Ariana's audition, manager Jon M. Chu told the New York Times, "I was disquieted astir the large facade of Ariana Grande, the performer. But erstwhile she came successful with nary makeup, each of that disappeared. She came successful against big, large actors, and she was the astir absorbing idiosyncratic successful the room."