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In this video Kerry Ellis sings Defying Gravity on broadway.

Kerry also released an Album where she added she own rock style to a number of the Wicked numbers. The Album is produced by Queen’s Brian May and is titled Wicked in Rock.

The video below shows Kerry Recording the song.

2 of the most popular and highly acclaimed actresses to play Elphaba in Wicked are Idina Menzel & Kerry Ellis.

So what happens when the 2 come together on stage at the same time……the following video shows the singing “I know him so well” from the musical “Chess”.
Idina Menzel

I found this  high quality clip of the famous defying gravity song from wicked on you tube.

Normally theatre recorded videos are poor quality but this one is quite good, and is reportily of Kerry Ellis performing Defying Gravity with Kendra Kassebaum in Wicked on Broadway on 17/06/2008.

The song is the finale of the first act in Wicked, when Elphaba discovers that the The Wizard of Oz is not the hero she had originally believed him to be. Realising this, and despite Glinda’s arguments, Elphaba vows  to fight the Wizard and his evil schemes. During the song, Elphaba enchants a broomstick to levitate and, she rises above the stage.

The fantastic sequence is brought to life by 60 moving lights, smoke, and wind effects.

Wicked is one if the biggest musical theatre hits of recent years with it’s incredible soundtrack on top of a familiar story based around the events leading upto the Wizard of Oz.

Wicked has broken box office records all over the world and has won a Tony Award

In this clip the fantastic Kerry Ellis sings the Wizard and I.