(6 Feb 2025)
POOL
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 5 February 2025
1. Wide of hosts introducing Cynthia Erivo
2. Wide of Erivo and hosts on stage
3. Various of comedian "roasting" Erivo about "Wicked"
4. Wide of Erivo and hosts on stage
5. Various of a painting competition with fake Ariana Grande giving Erivo support
6. Various singing competition with Erivo and students
7. Various Erivo being awarded a fake Pudding Pot by Blue Man Group
8. Wide of Erivo getting the real Pudding Pot trophy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 5 February 2025
9. Medium shot Cynthia Erivo sitting down for press conference ++JUMP CUT++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Cythia Erivo, actor:
Reporter: "How fun was that?"
Erivo: "Very very fun. I had a great time."
Reporter: "Wonderful. Did you know what to expect? Did you talk to any of the previous."
Erivo: "No, I wanted to be surprised I wanted to just come to this with fresh eyes and experience it in the room."
++JUMP CUT++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Cythia Erivo, actor – on how ‘Wicked’ changed her life:
"We’re already in 2025 and it’s already a whirlwind. Last year was absolutely wild and insane. And I have to say, I’m deeply, deeply grateful for the experiences that I’ve had, some of which are very much a first time. I don’t know that any of us could have expected what has happened with ‘Wicked.’ We knew it was special. But for the world to take it as its own in this way has been really wonderful to behold. I hope that and there’s more room for that for the second one coming to us, we’ve only got halfway through the story and to feel like this now is really wonderful and (sings)"
STORYLINE:
On Wednesday, Cynthia Erivo, the “Wicked” star, was celebrated as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year.
She endured a string of comedians that made bad jokes about “Wicked” being long before they were forced off stage. Then she took part in a finger-painting contest, scratching out an abstract painting of what was supposed to be “Wicked ” co-star Ariana Grande.
She then pleases a cheering crowd by belting out a few notes in a singing competition before receiving a blue Pudding Pot from members of the Blue Man Group — one of them dressed as witch and another operating a leaf blower to make the cape flow. The real Pudding Pot followed.
Erivo told the crowd her whole day was “fantastic” and afterward told reporters that it was honor to be recognized by a theater group for her work.
Along with starring in the smash hit musical, the British entertainer is a two-time Oscar nominee and an Emmy Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winner.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest still operating. After the celebratory roast, Erivo was scheduled to attend a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 176th production, “101 Damnations.”
Actor Jon Hamm, who came to fame starring as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men,” is the 2025 Man of the Year. He received his Pudding Pot on Jan. 31.
Every year since 1951, the Pudding has bestowed its Woman of the Year award on actors including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Annette Bening.
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