Ariana Grande channeled her interior theater child — and diva — in her opening monologue for Saturday Night Live Season 50, her second flip internet hosting the sketch comedy collection.
The Wicked star started her three-and-a-half minute monologue-turned-Broadway-spectacle by reiterating that it’s each theater child’s dream to play Glinda or Elphaba from the Oz-inspired musical.
“Nicely, it’s each theater child’s dream to lose their virginity, however their second dream is, in fact, to be in Depraved,” she quipped.
Tossing off one other joke, the Grammy-winning pop artist recalled her first stint internet hosting, again in 2016, when one other girl presidential candidate was working. “So I suppose second time’s the attraction,” she mentioned.
She continued, poking enjoyable at the truth that she wasn’t pulling double-duty as a number and musical visitor (Stevie Nicks is tapped this week): “I’m simply internet hosting. No, I’m not going to make this about me, I’m simply gonna have enjoyable, take it simple and, yeah, simply preserve it lowkey,” Grande mentioned.
“I’m gonna preserve it lowkey tonight / promise I’m not gonna sing,” the singer-songwriter begins with an improptu ballad that quickly transforms right into a full-blown, boisterous cabaret-style quantity, that includes her seamlessly bounce from her signature Britney Spears impression to an homage of Gwen Stefani’s vocals set to the tune of No Doubt’s “Don’t Communicate.”
Grande additionally guarantees to not discuss Depraved, unexpectedly working right into a misplaced Bowen Yang in full Glinda drag. Then comes a very campy high-kick line, as Grande abandons all “lowkey” qualities for her famend voice to shine.
“Should you’re searching for a diva, don’t look over right here,” she concludes, tongue-in-cheek.
Certain, Grande, certain.
