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Ariana Grande is sharing the magic of “Wicked” together with her grandmother Marjorie “Nonna” Grande.
The singer and actress, who stars as Glinda the Good within the “Depraved” film, made a pit cease in her hometown of Boca Raton, Florida on Monday to see the film together with her Nonna, who turned 99 in October.
“Flew to Boca for a day to look at with Nonna,” Grande wrote on her Instagram Tales, displaying a photograph of herself sitting subsequent to her grandmother and brother Frankie in a dimly lit movie show.
Grande added that they noticed the movie at “the movie show I grew up going to each weekend,” and gave her boyfriend Ethan Slater, who additionally stars within the film as Boq, a shoutout for taking the photograph.
She additionally shared a video of her Nonna smiling whereas watching Grande’s “Common” musical number on the massive display screen.
“Thrilled to report when the sugar glider had her drum solo nonna exclaimed loudly ‘oh i LOVE that,’” the Grammy-winner wrote in one other slide.
In March, Grande’s Nonna made historical past when she turned the most-senior artist ever to seem on the Billboard Sizzling 100 at age 98, in keeping with the music charting web site. Her Nonna was cited on Grande’s tune “Strange Issues” as a featured artist. The observe debuted on the chart at No. 55.
Grande stars alongside Cynthia Erivo, who performs Elphaba, in “Depraved,” the cinematic adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical that recounts occasions in Oz that occurred earlier than Dorothy’s arrival.
The Jon M. Chu-directed film premiered in theaters on Friday and raked in an estimated $162 million on the field workplace worldwide throughout its opening weekend. It additionally turned the third highest-grossing opening weekend of 2024 behind “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Inside Out 2.”