WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, announce today that Nikki Bentley and Helen Woolf will lead the new London cast as Elphaba and Glinda respectively, alongside the previously announced Alistair Brammer as Fiyero, from Monday 22 July 2019.
Nikki Bentley (Elphaba), Helen Woolf (Glinda) and Kim Ismay (Madame Morrible) join the London production to recreate the roles they played to national acclaim on the recent Wicked UK & Ireland Tour; Carina Gillespie returns to the role of Nessarose that she previously played on the 2013-15 UK & Ireland Tour. Idriss Kargbo (‘Little Moe’ in Five Guys Named Moe, Marble Arch Theatre; ‘Young Simba’ in The Lion King, Lyceum Theatre) returns to the London production to play Boq for a limited engagement until Saturday 10 November 2019; Simeon Truby (‘Jonas Fogg’ in Sweeney Todd, Adelphi Theatre) will play Doctor Dillamond; Andy Hockley (‘Monsieur Firmin’ in The Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty’s Theatre; ‘Mr Jolly’ in Playdays: The Roundabout Stop, CBBC) continues as The Wizard; Lisa-Anne Wood (‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty’s Theatre) joins the company as Standby for Glinda and Laura Pick continues as Standby for Elphaba. They are all joined by the previously announced Alistair Brammer (‘Chris’ in Miss Saigon on Broadway and at London’s Prince Edward Theatre) as Fiyero. Natasha Ferguson (42nd Street, Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Wicked UK & International Tours) will be maternity cover for Nessarose.
The cast also includes Chanelle Anthony, Meg Astin, Rebecca Botterill, Michael Colbourne, Lewis Easter, Nolan Edwards, Kerry Enright, Chris George, Rebecca Gilliland, Lucie Horsfall, Nicole Lupino, Maggie Lynne, Stuart Maciver, Carl Man, Rhidian Marc, Joanna Sawyer, Scott Sutcliffe, Genevieve Taylor, Grant Thresh, James Titchener, Libby Watts, Bryony Whitfield, Chad Wilder, Dickie Wood, Chiarina Woodall and Tom Woollaston.
*Maternity cover.
Alice Fearn (Elphaba), Sophie Evans (Glinda), David Witts (Fiyero), Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible), Chris Jarman (Doctor Dillamond), Rosa O’Reilly (Nessarose) and Jack Lansbury (Boq) will all play their final performances on Saturday 20 July 2019.
Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED imagines an ingenious backstory and future possibilities to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ and reveals the decisions and events that shape the destinies of two unlikely University friends on their journey to becoming Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
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