The award-winning musical WICKED celebrated the arrival of 19 new cast members at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, and after the show at the Park Plaza Victoria, on Tuesday 24 July: Dianne Pilkington (Glinda), Gary Amers, Nicola Brazil, Aileen Donohoe, Mark Evans, Ashleigh Gray, John Hicks, Dougal Irvine, Latoya Leijan, Mitchell Mahony, Christopher Mitchell, Haydn Oakley, Sean Parkins, Michael Pickering, David Stoller, Lindsay Taylor, Hannah Toy, Lucie Waugh and Gary Wood have all joined the hit musical.
WICKED also celebrated the promotion of several original cast members: Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Andy Mace (Doctor Dillamond), Cassidy Janson (Elphaba Standby) and Sarah Earnshaw (Glinda Standby).
Original cast members Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Susie Blake (Madame Morrible), Nigel Planer (The Wizard), James Gillan (Boq), Katie Rowley Jones (Nessarose), Nadine Cox, Aimee Hall, Kady Jo Jackson, Caroline Keiff, Adam Murray and Kerry Washington have all extended their contracts.
WICKED has now been seen by over 700,000 theatregoers since its first public performance at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre on 7 September 2006, grossing over £25 million at the Box Office and setting new records for the highest recorded weekly gross in West End history on three separate occasions. WICKED has grossed over $500,000,000 (half a billion dollars) worldwide.
Based on Gregory Maguire's best-selling novel, the spellbinding WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an extraordinary friendship between two girls: the blond and popular Glinda and the misunderstood green girl, Elphaba, whose destiny is to become the Wicked Witch of the West.
WICKED is presented in London by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. UK Executive Producer: Michael McCabe.
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