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Michelle Yeoh<\/a> is back as the villainous Madame Morrible in Wicked: For Good, opening in theaters this Friday. The Oscar-winner, who has been vocal about her apprehension to sing in the two-part adaptation, recently shared how co-star Cynthia Erivo<\/a> gave her the confidence to perform her numbers on the set of the film, despite her trepidation.<\/p>\n “I recorded it first because I’m a scaredy cat…just in case I didn’t want to sing it live,” she told Jimmy Fallon<\/a> on The Tonight Show. “And then, Cynthia came up to me, she literally just grabbed my hand, and she goes, ‘Michelle.’ And she looked at me with those beautiful eyes, [and said] ‘I know you can do this. Just sing.’<\/p>\n The character of Madame Morrible sings in a few numbers in the stage version, including “The Wizard and I.” The film version of the track, featuring Erivo, charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024. In Wicked: For Good, Yeoh’s vocals are present in the first two musical numbers, “Every Day More Wicked” and “Thanks Goodness\/I Couldn’t Be Happier.”<\/p>\n Get tickets<\/a> to see Wicked: For Good in theaters and check out first reactions for the new movie here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wicked: For Good picks up after the 2024 blockbuster. Elphaba, now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz\u2019s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wicked: For Good will hit theaters on November 21, 2025, and stars\u00a0Cynthia Erivo<\/a>\u00a0as Elphaba,\u00a0<\/a>Ariana Grande<\/a>\u00a0as Glinda,\u00a0Jonathan Bailey<\/a>\u00a0as Fiyero,\u00a0<\/a>Jeff Goldblum<\/a>\u00a0as The Wizard,\u00a0<\/a>Michelle Yeoh<\/a>\u00a0as Madame Morrible,\u00a0Ethan Slater<\/a>\u00a0as Boq, and\u00a0<\/a>Marissa Bode<\/a>\u00a0as Nessarose. Other cast members include Tony-nominee Colman Domingo<\/a> as the voice of the Cowardly Lion and Sharon D. Clarke (Caroline, or Change) as the voice of Elphaba\u2019s childhood nanny, Dulcibear.<\/p>\n Wicked: For Good is based on Act Two of the musical stage play with music and lyrics by composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz<\/a> and book by Winnie Holzman<\/a>, from the bestselling novel by Gregory Maguire<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Yeoh is back as the villainous Madame Morrible in Wicked: For Good, opening in theaters this Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-292942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}