Ariana Grande

And, you know, though I do use my falsetto quite often in pop music, it's just a completely different style, tone, vibrato, sound. And usually I'm using in pop music either my like mixy belt or my whistle register. So there's this big gap in between those two, which is where Glinda kind of lives.

And where that operatic sound needed to be strengthened and found in my voice and trained to become authentic sounding, it really required a lot of work. And what was really fun and interesting about that was that I went to get my vocal cords checked at the beginning of my training process to see if I could see a difference in the muscles, just how the shape is.

And where that operatic sound needed to be strengthened and found in my voice and trained to become authentic sounding, it really required a lot of work. And what was really fun and interesting about that was that I went to get my vocal cords checked at the beginning of my training process to see if I could see a difference in the muscles, just how the shape is.

And where that operatic sound needed to be strengthened and found in my voice and trained to become authentic sounding, it really required a lot of work. And what was really fun and interesting about that was that I went to get my vocal cords checked at the beginning of my training process to see if I could see a difference in the muscles, just how the shape is.

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Yes.

you can actually track the chord's changing shape while I was training and stuff like that. It's really, I'm a nerd for that kind of stuff, but the training was extensive, and it was really thrilling to follow the progress. So for my first audition, I sang No One Mourns the Wicked and Popular, but I also sang The Wizard of Nine Defying Gravity. But it was very clear what I was meant for.

you can actually track the chord's changing shape while I was training and stuff like that. It's really, I'm a nerd for that kind of stuff, but the training was extensive, and it was really thrilling to follow the progress. So for my first audition, I sang No One Mourns the Wicked and Popular, but I also sang The Wizard of Nine Defying Gravity. But it was very clear what I was meant for.

you can actually track the chord's changing shape while I was training and stuff like that. It's really, I'm a nerd for that kind of stuff, but the training was extensive, and it was really thrilling to follow the progress. So for my first audition, I sang No One Mourns the Wicked and Popular, but I also sang The Wizard of Nine Defying Gravity. But it was very clear what I was meant for.

That you were there for, right? Yes. For Galinda.

That you were there for, right? Yes. For Galinda.

That you were there for, right? Yes. For Galinda.

And in case it wasn't clear, I was in all pink, and I had a pink mug, and I had a pink. Everything was very Glinda-fied, just sending the subliminal message. And then I was called back for Glinda, and I sang more Glinda songs. So that was my second audition, and that was really thrilling. And I got to do my scenes with the casting associate, Tiffany Little, from Bernie Telsey's office. And

And in case it wasn't clear, I was in all pink, and I had a pink mug, and I had a pink. Everything was very Glinda-fied, just sending the subliminal message. And then I was called back for Glinda, and I sang more Glinda songs. So that was my second audition, and that was really thrilling. And I got to do my scenes with the casting associate, Tiffany Little, from Bernie Telsey's office. And

And in case it wasn't clear, I was in all pink, and I had a pink mug, and I had a pink. Everything was very Glinda-fied, just sending the subliminal message. And then I was called back for Glinda, and I sang more Glinda songs. So that was my second audition, and that was really thrilling. And I got to do my scenes with the casting associate, Tiffany Little, from Bernie Telsey's office. And

She was masked because this was during COVID. Like kind of a little wave of it at the tail end of COVID. But the best thing was feeling that I could tell under her mask that she was giggling because her eyes were smiling.

She was masked because this was during COVID. Like kind of a little wave of it at the tail end of COVID. But the best thing was feeling that I could tell under her mask that she was giggling because her eyes were smiling.

She was masked because this was during COVID. Like kind of a little wave of it at the tail end of COVID. But the best thing was feeling that I could tell under her mask that she was giggling because her eyes were smiling.

And it was just really special. Yes. And then my final callback was a chemistry test with two different Elphabas. It was three hours long. Mm-hmm. And they were so beautiful and wonderful, but surprisingly, neither one of them was Cynthia, so we didn't actually get to chemistry test together at all.