Overview
- The two-hour special airs on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/PT, streams on Peacock Nov. 7, and is available live via DirecTV, Fubo, Sling and Hulu + Live TV.
- Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande co-host and perform alongside Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and Bowen Yang, with Jonathan Bailey absent from the live taping.
- Filmed at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre, the production features an Emerald City–inspired set, a 37-piece orchestra led by Stephen Oremus, and reimagined choreography by Christopher Scott.
- Viewers get world-premiere previews from Wicked: For Good, including clips of two new Stephen Schwartz songs, “No Place Like Home” and “The Girl in the Bubble,” with appearances by Schwartz and director Jon M. Chu.
- Set highlights promoted by NBC include numbers spanning both films such as “What Is This Feeling?,” “Dancing Through Life,” “Popular,” “The Wizard and I,” “Defying Gravity” and “For Good,” with one key sequence captured at New York’s Gershwin Theatre.