One Short Day
Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus, Cynthia Erivo
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The song One Short Day, which is kind of a tour through the Emerald
City, has a little moment in it in the show where they go to see
A show called Wizard Mania. In our movie that's been greatly
Expanded so that we understand that there's there's all this
Propaganda that is telling the false story of how the wizard came
To be the ruler of Oz. And so there's a whole new section of that
It was always going to be expanded. And then Stephen had written a
Much larger, longer expansion. And then and then it started to get
Clearer and clearer as we started to kind of edit it down and figure
Out what what the moments needed. When it was decided that Kristen
And Idina were going to be a part of it, it was really important
To, you know, to honor both of them and to to pay tribute to what
They're both known for in the original piece. And then we we got
To just continue to refine and play with that. We added two very
Specific things to show off both Kristen and Idina. So, so we we
Gave we gave Kristen this big, glorious soprano moment musically
That Stephen wrote. And then there's a moment that Idina sings
Something that everyone knows, her what we call the war cry at the
End of Defying Gravity. It's just the passing of the torch of the
You know, of the of those two two women. It's just really beautiful
One Short Day is one of those moments where you get to see the
Two of them, you sort of realize their dreams a little. It's
Just a sweet moment where they are the most hopeful they can
Possibly be. But I think it's really important that it's set up
For it to be really big and bright and green and emerald, and
It's the one time that she doesn't feel out of place because
Everything around her matches her. And I think that it's the first
Time she feels like she belongs. We had such a good time doing that
But we were out in like doing night shoots for that one as well
So we were also deathly exhausted, but also blissfully happy