Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are set to star in 'Wicked' movie

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(CNN)Pop prima Ariana Grande and British actress Cynthia Erivo are acceptable to prima successful Universal's big-screen adaption of the Tony Award-winning philharmonic "Wicked."

Grande announced the quality of her casting to her 274 cardinal Instagram followers connected Thursday with a carousel of images that summed up her excitement to beryllium portion of the project, on with the caption "Thank goodness."

In 1 photo, the "Thank U, Next" vocalist is seen connected a video telephone with manager Jon M. Chu ("In the Heights," "Crazy Rich Asians") and her co-star Erivo.

Grande besides shared a drawback of the flowers Erivo sent her, which included a enactment that read, "'Pink goes bully with green.' Congratulations Miss A, the portion was made for you, I look guardant to sharing this philharmonic travel with you."

Erivo won a Tony, Grammy and daytime Emmy for her show arsenic Celie successful the signifier revival of "The Color Purple," and was precocious nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, successful National Geographic's "Genius: Aretha."

She besides confirmed her gravity-defying adjacent relation with an Instagram carousel.

Among her posts was clump of flowers from Grande, with a enactment that read: "Dear Cynthia, honored doesn't adjacent statesman to screen it. I cannot hold to hug you. See you successful Oz."

Serving arsenic a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," "Wicked," tells an alternate mentation of events successful Oz earlier Dorothy's arrival.

The musical, written by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, follows the misunderstood Elphaba, who aboriginal becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. Grande and Erivo volition beryllium playing Glinda and Elphaba, respectively, successful the movie.

According to the theatre quality website Broadway World, "Wicked" is 1 of the astir commercially palmy musicals of each time, making $14.8 cardinal astatine the Broadway container bureau past twelvemonth alone.

In a station connected Twitter, Chu told fans of the philharmonic to "Get acceptable for a lucifer up similar you've ne'er seen!!! In pinkish and green!!!"

And it seems the prime for the 2 leads is simply a fashionable one.

"Frozen" prima Idina Menzel -- who won a Tony Award for playing Elphaba connected Broadway -- took to Instagram to congratulate the pair.

"Congrats to 2 astonishing women," she wrote. "May it alteration your lives for the amended everlastingly and ever arsenic it has for us. So overmuch love. @cynthiaerivo @arianagrande."

Grande is nary alien to the "Wicked" world. In 2018, the 28-year-old singer, who starred successful the 2008 philharmonic "13" earlier becoming a household name, performed "The Wizard and I" for " A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 years connected Broadway."

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