“Depraved” star Cynthia Erivo has weighed in on an web debate about viewers conduct: Ought to followers sing alongside to the movie’s traditional showtunes whereas seeing it on the movie show?

Erivo, who performs Elphaba, gave the OK to followers who have been moved to sing alongside throughout an interview at Thursday’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast on NBC. She was requested by Hoda Kotb if it was OK to sing alongside within the theater since so many followers have been doing it, to which Erivo answered, “Good. I’m OK with it. We spent this lengthy singing it ourselves — it’s time for everybody else to affix in. It’s fantastic.”

Erivo joins Dwayne Johnson as the most recent celeb who inspired followers to sing alongside at a musical within the movie show, with Johnson saying on the carpet of the animated musical “Moana 2” that followers ought to, “Sing! You’ve paid your hard-earned cash for a ticket, and also you’ve gone right into a musical, and also you’re into it. Sing.”

Viewers singing at “Depraved” has sparked on-line debate, as some ticket patrons solely care to listen to the professionals within the movie. AMC Theatres spokesperson Ryan Noonan lately gave an interview the place he defined why the chain requested audiences to not sing, saying, “AMC has a long-standing coverage that prohibits disruptive conduct. The ‘Depraved’ preshow spot [which includes ‘no singing’] incorporates the themes of the movie as a enjoyable, partaking reminder to moviegoers to not disrupt the expertise for these round them as they benefit from the present.”

Followers solely want to attend just a few weeks to warble together with Erivo and Ariana Grande — interactive sing-along screenings of the movie are set to premiere on Christmas Day. These showtimes shall be set at roughly 1,000 North American cinemas.

Singing alongside isn’t the one conduct at “Depraved” screenings that has prompted debate. Sure followers have taken to filming parts of their film on their telephone and posting them on-line, which isn’t solely disruptive to different filmgoers, however can be unlawful.

Erivo began the interview by presenting Kotb with a bouquet, because the longtime “Immediately” host is ready to depart the present in January and that is her last time presenting the Thanksgiving parade.