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Cast and Creative<\/h1>\n

Discover the West End and Tour cast of Wicked, and find out who is currently playing some of the West End’s most iconic roles, such as Elphaba and Glinda.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the award-winning creative team behind the musical phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz<\/strong> (\u2018Godspell\u2019, \u2018Pippin\u2019, \u2018The Prince of Egypt\u2019, Disney\u2019s \u2018Pocahontas\u2019, \u2018The Hunchback of Notre Dame\u2019 and \u2018<\/em>Enchanted\u2019). Wicked is based on the multimillion-copy best-selling novel \u2018Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West\u2019 by Gregory Maguire<\/strong> and written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman<\/strong> (creator of the landmark American television series \u2018My So-Called Life\u2019).<\/em> Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento <\/strong>with direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Scenic design is by Eugene Lee<\/strong>, costumes by Susan Hilferty<\/strong>, lighting by Kenneth Posner<\/strong>, sound by Tony Meola<\/strong>, projection designs by Elaine J. McCarthy<\/strong> and Hair and Wig designs by Tom Watson<\/strong>. Music arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire<\/strong> and Stephen Oremus<\/strong>, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott<\/strong>, orchestrations by William David Brohn<\/strong>, and musical supervision by Stephen Oremus<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row layout_options=”full-width,no-top-padding,no-bottom-padding”][vc_column][page_header left_image_orientation=”left” right_image_id=”1213″ right_image_orientation=”right” background_image_id=”5575″ background_image_orientation=”center” is_page_title=”true” heading=”Lorum Ipsum Cast Creative Content” background_image=”115″]CAST & CREATIVE[\/page_header][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row layout_options=”tighten-max-width,double-vertical-padding,no-bottom-padding,remove-column-margin-mobile,remove-padding-mobile,horizontally-center”][vc_column video_bg=”yes” width=”1\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4″][sub-navigation menu_slug=”cast-and-creative” inline=”” layout_options=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row layout_options=”double-vertical-padding,horizontally-center”][vc_column video_bg=”yes” width=”1\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4″][sub-navigation menu_slug=”second-cast-creative” inline=”” layout_options=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_tab=”true” el_id=”production”][vc_column][talent-list type=”production”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_tab=”true” default_tab=”true” el_id=”cast”][vc_column][talent-list type=”cast”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_tab=”true” default_tab=”true” layout_options=”tighten-max-width,half-vertical-padding,no-top-padding” el_id=”cast”][vc_column][vc_column_text layout_options=”horizontally-center”]<\/p>\n

Cast Holidays<\/h3>\n

Laura Emmitt<\/strong> is scheduled to perform the role of Elphaba <\/em>on Thursday evenings.<\/p>\n

The Producers cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular artist, which is always subject to illness, injury and statutory holiday entitlement.<\/p>\n

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Emma Kingston<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Fri 23 May – Sun 25 May 2025<\/p>\n

Fri 15 August – Sun 24 August 2025<\/p>\n

Tue 30 September – Thu 2 October 2025<\/p>\n

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Zizi Strallen<\/b><\/h5>\n

Fri 9 May – Sun 11 May 2025<\/p>\n

Fri 3 October – Sun 12 October 2025<\/p>\n

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Carl Man<\/h5>\n

Tue 12 May – Sun 19 May 2025<\/p>\n

Tue 10 March – Sat 15 March 2026<\/p>\n

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Laura Emmitt<\/h5>\n

Fri 18 July – Sun 20 July 2025<\/p>\n

Fri 12 September – Sun 14 September 2025<\/p>\n

Tue 20 January – Sun 25 January 2026<\/p>\n

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[vc_row el_class=”sr-only”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cast and Creative Discover the West End and Tour cast of Wicked, and find out who is currently playing some of the West End’s most iconic roles, such as Elphaba and Glinda. Learn more about the award-winning creative team behind the musical phenomenon. Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar and Grammy Award … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickedthemusical.co.uk\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}