Wicked's Broadway run recently made history as the first Black full-time Elphaba, Lencia Kebede, made her debut ...

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the ...

Wicked star Cynthia Erivo is now among them, with her Oscar-nominated makeup team dubbing her character Elphaba’s unique skin tone in the Jon M. Chu feature adaptation of the Broadway play ...

As she’s taken on Elphaba’s role, she’s learned the importance of this character and her green skin — the beauty of it. She vividly remembers the first time she saw herself in full makeup.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ariana Grande did her Glinda proud in a pale pink stunner, and her “Wicked” bestie Cynthia Erivo honored ...

“My makeup artist was like ... Kebede joins a sisterhood of green-clad Black women who have played Elphaba, a list that includes Saycon Sengbloh and Lilli Cooper, both Broadway standbys ...

"My makeup artist was like ... Lencia Kebede appears as Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked" in New York on March 1, 2025. Credit: AP/Joan Marcus “It was just so important to me to ...

"My makeup artist was like ... Kebede joins a sisterhood of green-clad Black women who have played Elphaba, a list that includes Saycon Sengbloh and Lilli Cooper, both Broadway standbys ...

For Cynthia Erivo‘s role as Elphaba, “ the main thing ... team gave Grande an “old Hollywood” look. “ We kept her makeup really simple, very accessible. We wanted everybody to be ...