{"id":458963,"date":"2026-09-10T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:03:12","slug":"wicked-wicked-for-good-live-to-film-concerts-set-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458963\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wicked&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Wicked: For Good&#8217; Live-To-Film Concerts Set For 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: A series of live-to-film concerts of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wicked\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked\" data-tag=\"wicked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wicked-for-good\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-for-good\" data-tag=\"wicked-for-good\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>, with film screenings accompanied by a live symphony orchestra, will officially premiere at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/radio-city-music-hall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_radio-city-music-hall\" data-tag=\"radio-city-music-hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio City Music Hall<\/a> on January 23, 2027, with a special preview set for January 16 in San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe first event will be <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wicked-part-one-in-concert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-part-one-in-concert\" data-tag=\"wicked-part-one-in-concert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: Part One In Concert<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe concerts are a collaboration between Universal Film and Universal Destinations &amp; Experiences. See the announced tour dates below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe \u201cconcert experiences\u201d will feature the films projected on an HD screen while orchestras perform Stephen Schwartz\u2019s songs and Schwartz\u2019s and John Powell\u2019s underscore live-to-picture. Universal Film has partnered with Justin Hurwitz\u2019s company Hurwitz Concerts, which has toured La La Land in Concert and Whiplash in Concert since 2023, and which now makes its entry into producing concerts of films not scored by Hurwitz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhen I\u2019ve seen live concerts of film scores,\u201d said Schwartz in a statement, \u201cI\u2019ve always found it an amazing experience, so I\u2019m delighted that the Wicked movies are now becoming film concerts, especially under the expert direction of Oscar-winner Justin Hurwitz and his talented team.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI absolutely love the live-to-film format and think the Wicked films are so perfect for it,\u201d said Hurwitz. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor for me to help bring Stephen Schwartz\u2019s masterpiece musical and John Powell\u2019s brilliant, cinematic underscore to concert venues around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Jon M. Chu, Wicked and Wicked: For Good star Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, alongside Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, and Marissa Bode. Songs include \u201cDefying Gravity,\u201d \u201cPopular,\u201d and \u201cFor Good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe announced tour dates include the San Francisco preview, the Radio City premiere and Chicago (January 30); Mexico City (March 6); Guadalajara (April 17); Monterrey (April 24); Toronto (May 29); Montr\u00e9al (July 17); and Vancouver (July 24). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore dates and cities will be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: A series of live-to-film concerts of Wicked and Wicked: For Good, with film screenings accompanied by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[127218,101,103,102,104,106,105,34187,34441,181027],"class_list":["post-458963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-radio-city-music-hall","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-wicked","tag-wicked-for-good","tag-wicked-part-one-in-concert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}