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WICKED celebrates 16th birthday and puts 500,000 new tickets on sale

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Wicked celebrates its 16th birthday this evening (27 September) at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre and announces a 34th booking extension, with 500,000 new tickets are now on public sale for all performances until 26 November 2023.

Wicked currently stars Lucie Jones as Elphaba, Helen Woolf as Glinda, Ryan Reid as Fiyero, Sophie-Louise Dann as Madame Morrible, Gary Wilmot as The Wizard (until 16 October 2002), Mark Curry as The Wizard (from 18 October 2022), Carina Gillespie as Nessarose, Nicholas McLean as Boq, Simeon Truby as Doctor Dillamond, Amy Webb (Standby for Elphaba), and Lisa-Anne Wood (Standby for Glinda).

Completing the cast are Yuki Abe, Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Meg Astin, Alishia-Marie Blake, Pàje Campbell, Michael Colbourne, Fergus Dale, Nolan Edwards, Nicola Espallardo, Danny Fogarty, Laura Harrison, Amie Hibbert, Lucie Horsfall, Samuel How, Christian Knight, Nick Len, Jasmine Leung, Maggie Lynne, Rhidian Marc, PaddyJoe Martin, Jessica-Alice McCluskey, Stacey McGuire, Harry Mills, Lewis Newton, Natalie Spriggs, Samantha Thomas, Joe Thompson-Oubari and James Titchener.

The cast is subject to change from 7 March 2023.

Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz, and is based on the bestselling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It is written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman, with musical staging by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento, and direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

To book tickets, please click here.