Cynthia Erivo Lead, Ariana Grande Supporting

The 2 actresses on the heart of Depraved — Jon M. Chu’s highly-anticipated film adaptation of the smash-hit Broadway musical, which Common will launch nationwide on Nov. 22 — will not be going head-to-head in the identical appearing class this awards season, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.

A choice has been made to push Cynthia Erivo, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated actress who will probably be portraying Elphaba (who turns into the Depraved Witch of the West), within the lead actress class, and Ariana Grande, the Grammy-winning and SAG Award-nominated actress who will probably be enjoying Glinda (who turns into the Good Witch), within the supporting class.

This path differs from the one enforced upon the unique Broadway manufacturing by the Tony Awards Administration Committee 20 years in the past. Again then, Idina Menzel, who created Elphaba, and Kristin Chenoweth, who originated Glinda, each competed within the class of finest actress in a musical; each obtained nominations; and Menzel ended up profitable.

Nonetheless, the technique for the upcoming movie makes a variety of sense, on condition that solely 5 movies have ever managed to land noms for a number of actresses alongside one another in the perfect actress Oscar class — solely All About Eve (1950), Out of the blue, Final Summer season (1959), The Turning Level (1977), Phrases of Endearment (1983) and Thelma & Louise (1991) — and the way aggressive this 12 months’s feminine appearing classes are shaping as much as be.