{"id":286615,"date":"2025-11-12T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286615\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:03:08","slug":"lorna-luft-blesses-ariana-grande-and-cynthia-erivo-get-happy-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286615\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Luft Blesses Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo ‘Get Happy’ Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judy Garland Daughter Lorna Luft
\n My Mom’s the Original …
\n But I Love Ariana & Cynthia Singing Her Songs!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published November 11, 2025 3:08 PM PST\n <\/p>\n

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Judy Garland paved the way for many actresses, but maybe none more than “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande<\/a> and Cynthia Erivo<\/a> … we caught up with one of Judy’s two daughters, Lorna Luft, who couldn’t be happier about who’s walking in her mom’s footsteps.<\/p>\n

Lorna told us, “I love those two and they’re incredibly talented” when we chatted with her Tuesday in New York.<\/p>\n

She says she was particularly thrilled with Cynthia and Ariana’s duet for the special “Wicked: One Wonderful Night,” streaming on Peacock. In the program, they sang “Get Happy \/ Happy Days Are Here Again” … a song Judy sang with Barbra Streisand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lorna gushed that she’s “incredibly grateful” when people sing her late mother’s songs and was pleased the women even chose to do that specific duet.<\/p>\n

But A.I. doing her mother’s songs on the other hand … that would take some convincing. Lorna admitted she’s still getting caught up on the capabilities and implications of the burgeoning technology … but might consider allowing it to replicate her mom’s works in the future.<\/p>\n

For now, nothing beats the original … and that also goes for the films.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful for ‘Wicked,’ but we always have to know if it wasn’t for ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ there wouldn’t be ‘Wicked,'” Lorna reminded us.<\/p>\n

“Wicked: For Good” opens November 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judy Garland Daughter Lorna Luft My Mom’s the Original … But I Love Ariana & Cynthia Singing Her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,43776,7475,43777],"class_list":["post-286615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kim-k","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-kk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}