Skip To Content
BuzzFeed Homepage
Sign In
Search BuzzFeed

    Ariana Grande Attending The "Wicked" Broadway Show To Prep For Her Movie Role Is The Ultimate Theater Kid Move

    "Floating."

    Andria Moore
    by Andria Moore

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Good morning, theater kids, Broadway nerds, and Ariana Grande fans.

    IncredibleSingers / Via youtube.com

    Ever since Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were announced as this generation's Glinda and Elphaba in the Wicked musical movie, I have made it my entire personality.

    Marc @MarcSnetiker

    It’s not that the Wicked movie is my whole personality but that my whole personality has been preparing for the Wicked movie

    Reply Retweet Favorite
    @@MarcSnetiker / Via Twitter: @MarcSnetiker

    Which is why you could say I was ~defying gravity~ — (I'll never stop) — to find out that Ariana Grande attended Wicked on Broadway last night.

    Elphaba floating in the air at the end of her big song
    Broadway / Via giphy.com

    As in, she, herself, in the flesh, rolled up to a Broadway show.

    @arianagrande / Via Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/arianagrande/?hl=en

    OMG it's Riley Bina. 

    And not only did she attend, but she gave a personal shoutout to Brittney Johnson (Glinda) and Lindsay Heather Pearce (Elphaba) in her Instagram story.

    @arianagrande / Instagram / Via Instagram: @arianagrande

    "You were so very, very brilliant." she wrote. "Truly an honor to see, and hug, and hear, and witness you both. I am weeping!!!!!!!!!!!!! still!!!!!! Words simply do not suffice. Everyone was so remarkable. I feel so deeply thankful to have experienced this tonight. Floating."

    IDK about Brittney and Lindsay, but if Ariana Grande called me "brilliant" at anything, I would tattoo it to my forehead and y'all would never know peace again.

    NBC / Via youtube.com

    I'm truthfully impressed with how calm Lindsay's IG story reply was when she reposted Ari's message.

    @lindsayheatherpearce / Via Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/lindsayheatherpearce/?hl=en

    Like, people overuse it all the time but now is ACTUALLY the time to "scream, cry, throw-up."

    Ariana Grande attending a showing of a Broadway musical she's seen like 500 times, just to ~get into character~ for her upcoming role is like peak theater kid energy.

    NBC / Access / Via youtube.com

    And I love. it. 

    Sadly, there's still no official release date yet for the Wicked movie, but at least we all have plenty of time still to obsessively listen to the soundtrack.