An intimate audience at a private Hollywood event was changed for the better on Tuesday night. Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo took the stage at the Aster Hotel to perform “For Good,” a duet that appears in the recently released sequel Wicked: For Good.
The film’s director, Jon M. Chu, was in attendance, alongside hosts Baz Luhrmann and Colleen Camp. Grande and Erivo performed, accompanied by a pianist, joking at the start of the song that Chu would be the third vocalist to join. “That was fun,” Grande said before suggesting they sing another selection. The pair landed on “Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again,” Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand’s 1963 duet.
Grande and Erivo performed “Get Happy” at the end of their NBC special Wicked: One Wonderful Night, which aired last month. The specials, much like their performance at the Aster, are small pieces of a larger awards season campaign. For Wicked, Grande and Erivo earned nominations at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTA Awards, and the Academy Awards. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture at the 2025 Academy Awards.
“How privileged were we to be exhausted by getting the dream that we always beg the universe for. We get to make movies,” Chu said at the event, per Hollywood Reporter. “We get to make not just movies, we get to make movie musicals. And musicals give you access to the soul. It gets you closer to the soul.”
Grande has been easing back into live performances as she gears up for her first tour in nearly six years. The Eternal Sunshine tour will begin in June. “I’m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long, long time,” the musician and actress recently shared on Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast. “I’m going to give it my all and it’s going to be beautiful. I think that’s why I’m doing it because I’m like, ‘One last hurrah!’”
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