"Defying Gravity" in Sign Language

Defying Gravity in PSE/ASL. From the Broadway musical "Wicked: The True Story of the Witches of Oz".

Featuring Idina Menzel & Kristen Chenoweth and the Original Broadway Cast.

No copyright infringement intended. All music and lyrics are sole property of their respective owners.

Lyrics as I interpreted them:

GLINDA: (spoken) Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for
once, instead of flying off the handle!
(sung) I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA: I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy, too
I hope you're proud how you
Would grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

BOTH: So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy right now

GLINDA: (spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry:
(sung) You can still be with the Wizard
What you've worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted:

ELPHABA: (spoken) I know:
(sung) But I don't want it -
No - I can't want it
Anymore:

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

GLINDA: Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA: I'm through accepting limits
''cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down:
(spoken) Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could
do: together.

(sung) Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been
Glinda -
Dreams, the way we planned 'em

GLINDA: If we work in tandem:

BOTH: There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity

ELPHABA: They'll never bring us down!
(spoken) Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA: I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this

ELPHABA: (spoken) You too
(sung) I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH: I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy, my friend:

ELPHABA So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA: I hope you're happy!

ELPHABA: Bring me down!

ELPHABA: Ahhh!

Category:

Education

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• Wicked The Musical
• Defying Gravity
• ASL
• Idina Menzel
• Kristen Chenoweth
• Broadway
• Sign
• Song
• Songs
• Signing
• Interpreting

[DreamForHope7]

Did you use a name sigh for Alphaba and Glinda?

[jaytalex10]

@DreamForHope7 I signed the first letter of their name over my heart... I really didnt need to but this is an ollllld video... I would have done a lot different now-a-days!

[concertgirl13]

@jaytalex10 I'd love to see what changes you'd make if you did it now

[jaytalex10]

@concertgirl13 I have often thought about it but never sat down and done it!

[concertgirl13]

@jaytalex10 Well now I've subscribed so I'll definitely find out if you do :)

[LaurenBritt17]

EPIC.

[JCSaves2011]

=0 (mouth dropped)...... woooooooooow..... best interpretation ive ever seen on "defying gravity".... id like this video a million times if i could.... and for the record, using "kill" instead of "hurt" was probably how it should be interpreted haha XD so extra brownie points for u =) very well done and so expressive. awesome awesome job

[emmadilemmasings]

Hello jaytalex10!

Thanks for posting this. I have perfect hearing but I have several friends who are deaf and I've decided to take it upon myself to learn sign language. I've already learned French and it's a bit easier considering there isn't so much impossible pronunciation. And videos like this are very helpful because they put signing in a context that I really understand.

Thanks!

[bookworm1138]

thanks to you, the hearing impaired can enjoy the magic of wicked as well

well done