Mattel is feeling Wicked with its all-new launch of their Glinda and Elphaba Barbie dolls!
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, stars of the upcoming movie set to launch on Thanksgiving Day, collaborated on an Instagram publish to disclose the information of the brand new incoming dolls to Barbieland. As the 2 channeled their characters, they confirmed off their dolls: Glinda is adorned in a protracted pink costume with puffy shoulders, whereas Elphaba shows her uniqueness in a inexperienced and black long-sleeved ruffled costume, boots, and her witch hat.
“What a dream come true to be realized as Elphaba and Glinda within the type of candy little dolls. Little Cynthia and little Ari are happy,” wrote the 37-year-old actress about their miniature singing selves.
Although the dolls haven’t launched but, Mattel famous within the feedback that there’s “extra to come back.”
Broadway followers geeked out over the upcoming launch. A consumer commented, “I’m crying, I NEED them.”
One other consumer chimed in, “Everyone get in, we’re therapeutic our internal little one with Depraved dolls.”
“The songs taking part in from the dolls!! Obsessed!!!,” added a fan.
The “Issues” singer had at all times dreamed of taking part in within the movie, vocally stating that it was her dream function to play Glinda. In February of this 12 months, she shared throughout an interview on the “Zach Sang Present” that taking part in Glinda helped her discover her love for music once more. “I feel I realized a lot from Glinda and thru Glinda. I kinda healed lots of components of myself alongside her, and it really helped me heal lots of my very own private bizarre stuff that I had with my relationship to music and to being an artist and to that persona. I used to be capable of come dwelling, tackle it, sit with it, change the issues that weren’t working, and fall in love with it once more,” she voiced.
For Cynthia, taking up Elphaba is just like the “function of a lifetime.” She informed Tiffany Haddish throughout an interview on The Ellen Present that “it’s actually, actually thrilling, it’s actually cool. It feels prefer it is likely to be the function of a lifetime.”