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WICKED London welcomes 11 millionth theatregoer

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Wicked welcomed its 11 millionth theatregoer to London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre yesterday afternoon, with birthday girl Olivia Gosling, aged 15, and her father Steve Gosling invited on to the stage at the end of the performance.

The current West End cast includes Lucie Jones as Elphaba, Helen Woolf as Glinda, Ryan Reid as Fiyero, Sophie-Louise Dann as Madame Morrible, Gary Wilmot as The Wizard, Carina Gillespie as Nessarose, Nicholas McLean as Boq, Simeon Truby as Doctor Dillamond, Amy Webb (Standby for Elphaba), Lisa-Anne Wood (Standby for Glinda), alongside 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.

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

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