“It was an immediate no-brainer for Cynthia and I. We both were like, ‘well, of course we’re singing live’”: Ariana Grande says that there was never any doubt that the Wicked movie vocals would be recorded on set

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

Turning the Wicked stage musical into a film was always going to be a challenge, but if the early reviews are anything to go by, director Jon M Chu appears to have pulled it off.

One of the big early calls that Chu and his cast would have been required to make is whether to sing their vocals live, as scenes were being filmed - as opposed to lip-syncing to pre-recorded tracks - and it was recently confirmed that the two leads, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, made that decision pretty quickly.