Overview
- NBC’s two-hour Wicked: One Wonderful Night aired Thursday, Nov. 6, with the surprise medley as the broadcast finale.
- At the Sept. 24 taping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, the pair told the audience they performed the number twice by choice.
- The performance revives the mash-up first delivered on The Judy Garland Show, intertwining Garland’s “Get Happy” with Streisand’s “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
- The songs originate from the Great American Songbook, with “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1929, Milton Ager and Jack Yellen) and “Get Happy” (1930, Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler).
- Coverage notes Erivo previously sang the medley with Ben Platt in 2024, while there is no public record of Grande performing this pairing before.