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Your home for information about the touring broadway productions in north america, ‘wicked’ national tour welcomes new cast citizens of oz.

The Broadway sensation Wicked will welcome new cast members to the National Tour beginning performances Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at the  Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts  in Orlando, FL.

Biographies

Timothy Shew  (The Wizard) is new to the Wicked family.  On Broadway, he was in the original company of  Les Misérables , and played Jean Valjean for six years both on Broadway and in Australia. Timothy has had numerous leading and/or featured roles in Funny Girl ,  The Visit ,  Evita ,  Bye Bye Birdie ,  Wonderful Town ,  The Scarlet Pimpernel ,  Sunset Boulevard  and  Guys and Doll .  On tour, he has appeared in  The Light in the Piazza  and  Hello, Dolly!  Timothy was a soloist for the Grammy-nominated Bernstein  Mass Project at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and The Vatican. He has had guest starring or recurring roles in “Madame Secretary,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “FBI: Most Wanted” and “Ryan’s Hope.”

Boise Holmes (Doctor Dillamond) is a Los Angeles actor, singer, writer, voiceover artist and licensed minister. His Broadway and National Tour credits include Tonton in Once on This Island  and Mufasa in Disney’s  The Lion King (Germany). Boise can be seen and heard on television and radio as Exxon Mobil’s “Mr. Supremium.”  Some of his television credits include “NCIS,” “Law & Order,” “Chicago Fire,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Blackish.” Boise is a NAACP/Ovation Award winner.

Tara Kostmayer will be joining the National Tour of Wicked as Nessarose, after recently touring in Disney’s Aladdin . Off-Broadway, she was in the NYCC Encores! production of A Chorus Line . Tara has also appeared in Chicago  (The MUNY),  Pride and Prejudice  (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley) and  Ojo  (La Jolla Playhouse).

Kyle McArthur  (Boq) is thrilled to be joining his first National Tour. He originated the role of Simon in the Off-Broadway musical  Superhero at Second Stage and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. His television credits include Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” as Brian Koenig and HBO’s “The Deuce.”

Christian Thompson  is living out his childhood dream by joining Wicked and playing Fiyero. Originally from Ft. Lauderdale, he has appeared in Thoughts of a Colored Man ,  Ain’t Too Proud  (Original Broadway Company and First National Tour), and toured in the  Rent  20 th  Anniversary Tour (Benny and Roger understudy). His Regional credits include the world premiere of  The Devil Wears Prada  and  Catch Me If You Can  at Arena Stage

They join a cast which currently includes  Lissa deGuzman  as Elphaba,  Jennafer Newberry  as Glinda,  Natalie Venetia Belcon  as Madame Morrible, with Emily Kristen Morris, Alexia Acebo, Jennifer Mariela Bermeo, Remmie Bourgeois, Kyle Brown, Anthony Lee Bryant, Matt Densky, Marie Eife, Jenny Florkowski, Sara Gonzales, Chelsea Cree Groen, Courtney Iventosch, Kelly Lafarga, Marina Lazzaretto, Ryan Mac, Brittany Marcell Monachino, David Scott Purdy, Jackie Raye, Andy Richardson, Jenna Nicole Schoen, Derek Schiesel, Wayne Schroder, Paul Schwensen, Ben Susak, Brion Marquis Watson and Justin Wirick.

Currently the 5th longest-running show in Broadway history,  Wicked is the winner of over 100 international awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards.  Since opening in 2003, Wicked has been performed in over 100 cities in 16 countries around the world (U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, The Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland and China) and has thus far been translated into six languages: Japanese, German, Dutch, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese. Wicked has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide and has amassed over $5 billion in global sales.

In addition to the Broadway production, Wicked in North America   has enjoyed unprecedented record-breaking sit-down engagements in Chicago, where it ran for nearly four years; Los Angeles, where it ran for two years; and San Francisco, where it ran for nearly two years, as well as two North American Tours.

The Broadway sensation Wicked looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle.  Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin, who is smart, fiery, misunderstood, and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular, their initial rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships…until the world decides to call one “good,” and the other one “wicked.”

With a thrilling score that includes the hits “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good,” Wicked has been hailed by  The New York Times  as “the defining musical of the decade,” and by  Time Magazine  as “a magical Broadway musical with brains, heart, and courage.”  NBC Nightly News calls the hit musical “the most successful Broadway show ever.” 

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Winnie Holzman.  The production is directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello with musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento. Wicked is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

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Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (‘Godspell’, ‘Pippin’, ‘The Prince of Egypt’, Disney’s ‘Pocahontas’, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ and ‘ Enchanted’). Wicked is based on the multimillion-copy best-selling novel ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ by Gregory Maguire and written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman (creator of the landmark American television series ‘My So-Called Life’) . Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento with direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello .

Scenic design is by Eugene Lee , costumes by Susan Hilferty , lighting by Kenneth Posner , sound by Tony Meola , projection designs by Elaine J. McCarthy and Hair and Wig designs by Tom Watson . Music arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire and Stephen Oremus , with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott , orchestrations by William David Brohn , and musical supervision by Stephen Oremus .

CAST & CREATIVE

Alexia Khadime

Theatre includes: The Prince of Egypt (Dominion) ; The Distance You Have Come (Cockpit Theatre) ; One Love (Birmingham Rep) ; Sleeping Beauty , Dick Whittington and Cinderella (Hackney Empire) ; The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales) ; Les Misérables (Queen’s) ; Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios) ; Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre) ; Wicked (Apollo Victoria) ; The Lion King (Lyceum) ; Whistle Down the Wind (UK tour) and Leader of the Pack (UK tour).

Television includes: Trying; Wanderlust; Splatalot 2; Cleopatra Comin’ Atcha; The Queen’s Nose; The Bill; Grange Hill; MacGyver; Class Action; The Sculptress and Dream Team .

Film includes: Rocketman; London Road; Les Misérables and the short film Separate Truths .

Grammy nominated for The Prince of Egypt ‘Best Musical Theatre Album’, WhatsOnStage Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’, Broadway World Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’ and West End Wilma Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Musical’.

Lucy St. Louis

Theatre includes: ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); ‘Guinevere’ in Camelot (London Palladium); The Show Must Go On! (Palace); ‘Antonia’ and understudy ‘Aldonza’ and ‘Dulcinea’ in Man of La Mancha (ENO, London Coliseum); ‘Diana Ross’ in Motown The Musical (Original Cast, Shaftesbury); ‘Little Eva’ in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Original Cast, Aldwych); understudy ‘Nabulungi’ in The Book of Mormon (Original Cast, Prince of Wales); understudy ‘Sarah’ in Ragtime (Regent’s Park) and Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai).

Television includes: The Jonathan Ross Show and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV); Spongers (pilot) and All Star Musicals (ITV).

Film includes: principal soloist in My Favourite Things: Rogers and Hammerstein 80 th Anniversary Concert (Cinema Live); ‘Debutante’ in Beauty and the Beast (Disney) and ‘Lavvie’ in Cosmic Rhapsody (animated film).

Other work includes: principal soloist for ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ single and digital remix, soloist for Bliss – The Silent Twins movie soundtrack and soloist on ‘If We Only Have Love’ single for Childline. Live events include The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (Buckingham Palace) and Magic at the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall). Awards include ‘Best Actress in a Musical’ for ‘Christine Daaé’ – The Phantom of the Opera at the Black British Theatre Awards and ‘Best Actress in a Musical’ for ‘Diana Ross’ – Motown The Musical at the International Achievement Recognition Awards. WhatsOnStage Best Takeover Performance Nomination: ‘Glinda’ – Wicked.

Training: Arts Educational Schools London – BA (Hons) Degree in Musical Theatre.

Theatre includes: ‘Angel City Four’ in City of Angels (Garrick); Sweet Charity (Donmar); ‘Curtis Taylor Junior’ in Dreamgirls (Savoy); swing and understudy ‘Benny’ in In the Heights (King’s Cross Theatre); understudy ‘Donkey’ in Shrek The Musical (UK tour); Puss in Boots  and Blues in the Night (Hackney Empire).

Film includes: ‘Ricky’ in Land of Dreams .

Workshops include: Abyssinia  and Martin Smith’s King (Hackney Empire).

Other work includes: television commercials for Nintendo Switch 2021 and Teacher Training Agency “Use Your Head, Teach.” ; the Olivier Awards ; Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2) and WhatsOnStage Awards.

Sophie-Louise Dann

Madame Morrible

Training: Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre includes: ‘Fergie’ in The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales); ‘Celia’ in The Girls (Olivier nomination, Phoenix) ‘Paula Paxton’ in Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); ‘Barbara Castle’ in Made in Dagenham (Adelphi); ‘Diana Divane’ in Lend Me a Tenor! (Olivier nomination, Gielgud); ‘Mrs Lovett’ in Sweeney Todd (Mercury Theatre); Forbidden Broadway! and Spamilton! (Menier Chocolate Factory); ‘Dot’ in Sunday in the Park with George (Théâtre du Chatelet); ‘Velma Von Tussle’ in Hairspray (Leicester Curve); ‘Gay Daventry’ in Gay’s the Word (Jermyn Street Theatre) and ‘Madame Thénardier’ in Les Misérables .

Television includes: Trapped; Doctors (BBC) and Mr. Bean (ITV).

Film includes: The Phantom of the Opera (Warner Bros) and Sunday in the Park with George (Mezzo TV).

Other work includes: Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2); Sondheim at 80 (BBC Proms) and May I have a moment? (Crazy Coqs).

Michael Fenton Stevens

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Theatre includes: Queen Anne (Haymarket); Yes, Prime Ministe r (Gielgud and Apollo); Scissor Happy (Duchess); Forbidden Broadway (Fortune); The Bed Before Yesterday (Almeida); The Fields of Ambrosia (Aldwych); Amadeus (UK tour) and Love For Love (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Television includes: Death in Paradise (BBC); The Sixth Commandment (BBC); Slow Horses (Apple TV); Avenue 5 (HBO); Ghosts (BBC); Benidorm (ITV); My Family (BBC); Only Fools and Horses (BBC); The Crown (Netflix); Spitting Image (ITV); New Tricks (BBC); Ballot Monkeys (Channel 4); Nighty Night (BBC); One Foot in the Grave (BBC); Not Going Out (BBC); Outnumbered (BBC); Mr. Bean (BBC); Eastenders (BBC); Footballers’ Wives (ITV) and Coronation Street (ITV).

Film includes: Rogue Agent (Netflix).

Other work includes : Michael sang the lead vocals on the Spitting Image UK Number 1 hit ‘The Chicken Song’.

Caitlin Anderson

Training: The MGA Academy of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Carol Blitztein’ in Blitz! (Union Theatre); ‘Clara Stahlbaum’ in The Nutcracker: A Christmas Spectacular (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth); ‘Marty’ and understudy ‘Sandy’ in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line) and ‘Jesiva’ in WeCameToDance (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Other work includes: featured soloist in An Evening with Jonathan Reid Gealt (Concert).

Caitlin is delighted to be making her West End Debut in Wicked and would like to thank her loved ones for their endless support.

Graham Kent

Doctor Dillamond

  Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country (UK tour); Kinky Boots (Adelphi); Made in Dagenham (UK tour); Spend, Spend, Spend and Moll Flanders (Watermill Theatre); Tin Tin (Barbican); Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Romeo & Juliet , As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stafford Shakespeare Festival); Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kent Rep); A Word From Our Sponsor (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Animal Farm (Theatr Clywd); A View from the Bridge (Greenwich Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Manchester Library); Man of La Mancha and The Wizard of Oz (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Aladdin (Bristol Hippodrome); Happy End (Nottingham Playhouse); Strindberg Chamber Plays (The Gate) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (National Theatre of Scotland).

Television includes: Belgravia (ITV) ; Call the Midwife, Doctors, EastEnders, Grange Hill, Bramwell, In the Red and Bugs (BBC); Thief Takers, Trial & Retribution, The Knock and The Bill (ITV).

Film includes: From Hell (20 th Century Fox).

Joe Thompson-Oubari

Training: Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Boq’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (New Victoria Theatre, Woking); ‘Warren’ in Ordinary Days (The Theatre Café); ‘Dandini’ in Cinderella (Theatre Royal Windsor); ‘Shane’ in Squad Goals and ‘Aladdin’ in Aladdin (Theatre Royal Windsor); ‘Buddy Fidler’ and ‘Angel City Four’ in City of Angels (Royal Academy of Music); ‘Usnavi’ in In the Heights (British Theatre Academy); Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Peter Pan (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (Regent’s Park).

Television includes: The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and Oliver! (BBC Children in Need).

Workshops include: Downhill and Prom Fever! (Mirrorball Films).

Other work includes : Zorro The Musical (Cadogan Hall); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall); Roles We’ll Never Play 2023 (Concert) and Footballers’ Wives the Musical (Studio cast album).

Laura Harrison

Standby for Elphaba

Theatre includes: understudy ‘Norma Desmond’ in Sunset Boulevard (Savoy); ensemble and understudy ‘Elphaba’ and ‘Nessarose’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); The Rocky Horror Show (UK & Ireland tour); Legally Blonde (UK & Ireland tour); Blood Brothers (UK & Ireland tour); Parade (Hope Mill Theatre); Peter Pan (UK tour) and Little Shop of Horrors (The Kings Arms, Salford).

Television includes: ‘Liz’ in Liver Bird’s Ident (ITV).

Workshops include: Twelfth Night (National Theatre); The Social; Country Roads ; Bloody Nora: A Musical and Closure.

Other work includes: Carousel – John Wilson Orchestra (recording); The Spark of Creation – with Stephen Schwartz (Park Theatre); An Evening with Stephen Schwartz (Hope Mill Theatre); Jason Manford’s Christmas Carol Concert (Bridgewater Hall, Manchester); Church of Now (BBC Comedy) and BBC Proms 2010 – Prom 19: Stephen Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall).

Lisa-Anne Wood

Standby for Glinda

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: ‘Susan’ in Company (Arts Centre Theatre, Aberdeen); vocalist in Three Phantoms (Asian tour); alternate ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); ‘Precious McGuire’ in Steel Pier (Union Theatre) and ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s).

Television includes: Humans (Channel 4).

Workshops include: ‘Portia’ in The Wind in the Willows; ‘Rebecca’ in My Land’s Shore and ‘Claire Clairmont’ in Lord Byron’s Mistress .

Other work includes : ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables at The Classic BRIT Awards 2011 (Royal Albert Hall) and ‘Johanna’ in Sondheim’s Songs from Sweeney Todd .

Christine Tucker

Standby for Glinda (Maternity Cover)

Training: Bird College.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Glinda’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); understudy ‘Mary Poppins’ and ’Winifred Banks’ in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); ’Young Phyllis’ in Follies (National Theatre); Mary Poppins (UK and international tour); A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre); The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium).

Film includes: Wonka (Warner Bros.) and The Inbetweeners Movie (Film 4).

Television includes: All Star Musicals (ITV).

Swing (Maternity Cover)

Training:  Bird College.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Bill Sikes’ and ‘Dr. Grimwig’ in Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); swing and understudy ‘Pepper’ in Mamma Mia! (Novello); ensemble and understudy ‘Pierce’ and ‘Carshot’/‘Maxwell’ in Half a Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre); Dance Captain, swing and understudy ‘Boatswain’ in Sasha Regan’s All-Male H.M.S Pinafore (Wilton’s Music Hall); ensemble/‘Busboy’ in She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); ensemble in Cinderella (Theatre Royal Nottingham); ensemble in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line); ensemble in Aladdin (Cambridge Arts Theatre); ‘Jack in the Box’ in Toys the Musical (Dubai); ensemble and Dance Captain in Peter Pan (White Rock Theatre, Hastings) and ensemble in The Golden Age of Dance (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Conor Ashman

Ensemble, Chistery

Training: Reynolds Performing Arts and Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ensemble in Oklahoma! (Gordon Craig Theatre) and ‘Pouncival’ and ‘Coricopat’ in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line).

Conor is thrilled to be making their West End debut as ‘Chistery’.

Jessica Aubrey

Ensemble, Nessarose / Elphaba U/S

Training: Royal Academy of Music – Musical Theatre (MA) and University of Warwick – Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BSc).

Theatre includes: ‘Megan’ in But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); swing and understudy ‘Eglantine Price’ in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour) and ‘Sandy’ in Grease (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line).

Television includes: dancer in The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV).

Jess is delighted to stay a second year in Wicked and would like to thank her friends and family for their endless love and support.

Jeremy Batt

Ensemble, Doctor Dillamond / Wizard U/S

Training: Urdang Academy and The Susan Nash School of Dance and Drama.

Theatre includes: swing in A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); swing and understudy ‘Olaf’ and ‘Duke of Weselton’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Munkustrap’ in  Cats (Cyprus); Zombies (The Other Palace);  Oklahoma!  (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Young Theodore’ in  Follies (National Theatre); ‘Will Parker’ in  Oklahoma!  (Gordon Craig Theatre);  Chess  (English National Opera); A Theory of Justice: The Musical! (Arts);  Mary Poppins  (international tour);  Candide  (Menier Chocolate Factory);  Kinky Boots (Adelphi); Les Misérables (Sondheim); Top Hat (Aldwych) and Godspell (Union Theatre).

Felipe Bejarano

Ensemble, Fiyero U/S

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Mogi’ in Death Note: The Musical (London Palladium); ‘Rudolpho’ in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Evita (Regent’s Park); ‘Benny Southstreet’ in Guys and Dolls (The Mill at Sonning); ‘Niko’ and ‘Sundeep’ in Legally Blonde (UK tour); Mamma Mia! (Novello); Peter Pan (Wimbledon Theatre) and Snow White (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre).

Television includes: McDonald and Dodds (ITV); It’s a Sin (Channel 4) and The Liberator (Netflix).

Film includes: Snow White (Disney), Bohemian Rhapsody (GK Films) and Wicked: Part Two (Universal Pictures).

Asmara Cammock

Training: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Runway House and The Brit School of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Cabaret (The Kit Kat Club); The Lion King (UK & Ireland tour); ACE Dance & Music and Phoenix Dance Theatre: Windrush ‘The Movement of the People’.

Other work includes: The 1975; BBC; Hyundai; Burberry; London Fashion Week; Starbucks; Google; Netflix and JD Sports.

Joshua Clemetson

Ensemble, Boq U/S

Theatre includes: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs Panto (New Wimbledon); The Color Purple (UK tour); Back to the Future: The Musical (Adelphi); BBC Proms: West Side Story (Royal Albert Hall) and BBC Proms: On the Town (Royal Albert Hall).

Workshops include: Lovestuck (Churchill Theatre) and Soapdish (Turbine Theatre).

Other work includes: Back to the Future: The Musical (Original Cast Soundtrack).

Effie Rae Dyson

Training: Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes: Mrs. Doubtfire (Original Cast, Manchester Opera House); Sleeping Beauty (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury); Cinderella (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Aladdin (Hawth Theatre, Crawley); Dick Whittington (Evolution) and The Greatest Show (Clapham Grand).

Film includes: PRAGMA (short film). Effie Rae has also appeared in numerous TV commercials including Monopoly , Frijj , Barclays Bank and Groupon .

Aston Newman Hannington

Theatre includes : The Cher Show (UK tour); Mame (Hope Mill Theatre & UK tour); Flashdance the Musical (Asian tour); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion and Original Cast, Coliseum and international tour); West Side Story (Salzburg Festival); Let’s Dance Again (Royal Festival Hall); Sinatra: The Man & His Music (London Palladium); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pavillion Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Theatre Royal Brighton) and Cinderella, Peter Pan and Robin Hood (Qdos).

Television includes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) and Britain’s Got Talent, This Morning, The Paul O’Grady Show and Sunday Night at the Palladium (ITV).

Film includes: Mary Poppins Returns (Disney).

Other works includes: WhatsOnStage Awards 2015 and 2020.

Aimee Hodnett

Ensemble, Glinda U/S

Theatre includes: 42 nd Street (Sadler’s Wells and UK tour); Cats (international tour); Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Far From Heaven (Turbine Theatre); White Christmas (Dominion); Follies (National Theatre); An Officer and a Gentleman (UK tour); She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); Miracle on 34 th Street (Dubai); The Producers (UK tour) and Singin’ in the Rain (UK & international tour).

Television includes: The Crown (Netflix) and Jack Whitehall: Christmas with My Father (Netflix).

Aimee is delighted to be joining the company of Wicked and would like to thank her husband, friends and family for their continued support. This one’s for you Marv.

Kate Leiper

Ensemble, Elphaba / Nessarose U/S

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: ensemble and understudy ‘Meat’ and ‘Killer Queen’ in We Will Rock You (UK tour); ‘Lorraine’ in Jersey Boys (international tour); ensemble in Evita (UK and European tour); ‘Hua’ and Dance Captain in Marco Polo: An Untold Love Story (Shaw Theatre) and ‘Leia Dawkins’ in Loserville (Union Theatre).

Workshops include: ‘Sally’ in You Can’t Get There From Here – The Twiggy Story (Menier Chocolate Factory) and We Will Rock You II – The Show Must Go On .

Jemima Loddy

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour); Aladdin (New Victoria Theatre); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); Snow White (London Palladium); The Bodyguard (Toronto); Dick Whittington (London Palladium); The Last Tango (UK tour and Phoenix) and Dance till Dawn (UK tour).

Film includes: Walking on Sunshine (Feature Film).

Workshops include: Associate Choreographer in You Can’t Get There From Here – The Twiggy Story by Ben Elton (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Other work includes: music video for Old Shoes by Lydia Evangeline.

Joshua Lovell

Swing, Doctor Dillamond U/S

Theatre includes: swing in Singin’ in the Rain (London, Japan and UK tour); ensemble and understudy ‘Bob Wallace’ in White Christmas (UK tour); ensemble in Funny Girl (Paris); ‘Referee Angel’ in Kinky Boots (Original UK tour); ensemble and understudy ‘Rooster’ in Annie (Toronto); swing and Assistant Dance Captain in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales); ensemble and understudy ‘Frank’ in Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival and UK tour); ensemble in Follies in Concert (Royal Albert Hall); ‘George’ in Pipe Dream (Union Theatre); ‘Zebulun’ and understudy ‘Joseph’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dubai); ensemble in White Christmas (Manchester) and swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre).

Workshops include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Last Maharajah .

Rory Maguire

Training: The Brighton Academy.

Theatre includes: ‘Hollander’ and understudy ‘Tink/Ledoux’ in Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (UK & international tour and Peacock); ‘Gerard’ and understudy ‘Tunny’ and ‘Johnny’ in American Idiot (UK tour & New Zealand); ‘Cyril’ in Summer Holiday – The Musical (UK tour); Mamma Mia! (UK tour); ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (Greenwich Theatre & Watersmeet, Rickmansworth); ‘Jimmy Smith’ in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Canada); ‘George’ in George’s Marvellous Medicine (88 London Road, Brighton); ‘Doody’ in Grease (BKL); ‘Ben’ in Ushers (Arts & Edinburgh Festival); ‘Rik’ in Aladdin (Brighton Emporium); ‘Dandini’ in Cinderella (Watersmeet, Rickmansworth); ‘Peter Pan’ in Shrek The Musical (UK tour) and The Rockafellas (international tour).

PaddyJoe Martin

Swing, Assistant Dance Captain

Theatre includes: ‘Hashamoto’ and understudy ‘Hopper’ 1, 2 and 3 in Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); swing in Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire); swing and understudy ‘Engines’ and ‘Components’ in Starlight Express (30th Anniversary, Bochum, Germany); Dance Captain in Sleeping Beauty (Bournemouth, UK Productions) and swing in Aladdin (New Victoria, Woking).

Darnell Mathew-James

Theatre includes: understudy ‘David Ruffin’, swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Prince Edward); ensemble in Cabaret (Lido de Paris) and ‘Eugene’ in Grease (Dominion).

Other work includes: dancer in West End Does: Christmas (Cadogan Hall) and Durex (Commercial).

Millie Mayhew

Theatre includes: The Snowman (Birmingham Rep, international tour); Tarzan (Stage Entertainment, Germany) and dancer for the Olympia London International Horse Show (BBC).

Millie is delighted to be making her West End debut and would like to thank her family and friends for their endless support.

Ayden Morgan

Theatre includes : swing and understudy ‘Tito’ in Dirty Dancing (Dominion and UK tour); ensemble, Assistant Dance Captain and Acro Coach in Bring It On: The Musical (UK tour); ensemble in The Lion King (Lyceum) and ensemble and understudy ‘Captain Hook’ and ‘Mr. Darling’ in Peter Pan (Victoria Theatre, Halifax).

Television includes: dancer in Bridgerton (Netflix) and dancer in Saturday Night Fever 40 th Anniversary (BBC).

Film includes: dancer in Greatest Days (Elysian Film).

Other work includes: ensemble in The Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Gala; dancer in Songs and Solidarity (West End Grenfell Tower benefit concert) and dancer in Sonia Stein (music video).

Ayden is delighted to be joining the cast of Wicked and hopes everyone enjoys the show.

Rishard-Kyro Nelson

Training: The BRIT School and Bird College.

Theatre includes: La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park); Cabaret (Lido de Paris); Grease (Dominion); Dirty Dancing (Dominion and UK & Ireland tour); Thriller – Live (Lyric and international tour); Frame[d] (UK tour)  and Dick Whittington (Towngate Theatre, Basildon).

Television includes: The BRIT Awards , Levi’s (commercial) and The Sandman and Swimmers (Netflix).

Rishard is thrilled to be joining the cast of Wicked and would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support.

Aiesha Naomi Pease

Ensemble, Madame Morrible U/S

Theatre includes: Mrs. Doubtfire  (Manchester Opera House); Gypsy  (Buxton Opera House); SIX  (UK tour); The Regulars  (Hope Mill Theatre); Aladdin  (Cambridge Arts Theatre);  Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK and Ireland tour); Hair (UK tour and Cologne Kölner Sommerfest); Hadestown  (National Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate  (Opera North, tour and London Coliseum); Sister Act (Leicester Curve, international and UK tour); Hairspray  (UK and Ireland tour); World Goes Round (Finsbury Studios); Ragtime  (Pleasance Theatre); The Witches of Eastwick (Bloomsbury Theatre) and lead vocalist in Todrick Hall’s Twerk Du Soleil (Leicester Square Theatre). Aiesha is excited to be doing her second year in this magical show.

Jeanie Ryan

Theatre includes: Flashdance the Musical (UK tour) and ‘Mrs Pumpernickel’ in Coppelia (The Cockpit, KVN Dance Company).

Television includes: Horrible Histories (BBC).

Film includes: Imaginary Friends (Paramount Pictures); standby ‘Bashful’, ‘Happy’ and ‘Sleepy’ in Disney’s Live-Action Snow White (Disney, Marc Platt Productions) and Horrible Histories The Movie (BBC Films).

Jeanie is delighted to be making her West End debut.

Natalie Spriggs

Theatre includes: ‘Miss Flannery’, ‘Muzzy Van Hossmere’ and understudy ‘Mrs. Meers’ in Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK tour); ‘Sharon’ in Girl’s Night (UK tour) and ‘Queen Lucretia’ and ‘Deadly Nightshade’ in Beauty and the Beast and Snow White (Qdos Entertainment).

Film includes: In Love with Alma Cogan (BBC).

Other work includes: lead vocalist in An Evening with Sir Tim Rice (Belinda King Productions); lead vocalist in Rock Around the Clock (UK & international tour); lead vocalist at The London Cabaret Club and mainstage performer for Disney.

Natalie would like to thank her family; particularly her Mother Magee, and her partner for their ongoing support.

Charlotte Anne Steen

Swing, Elphaba U/S

Theatre includes: Greatest Days (UK tour); Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show (European tour); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion); 42 nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Rock of Ages (UK tour); We Will Rock You  (arena tour); Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg) ; I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (King’s Head Theatre and Edinburgh Festival); Eurobeat Moldova (Pleasance Grand Theatre); Legally Blonde  (Kilworth House Theatre) and Rent (Tabard Theatre).

Television includes: The Generation Game (BBC); The Royal Variety Performance (ITV); The One Show (BBC) and Tonight at the Palladium (ITV).

Other work includes: 42 nd Street (London Cast Recording) and Eurobeat Moldova (Original Cast Recording).

James Titchener

Swing, Dance Captain

Theatre includes: ensemble and Assistant Dance Captain in Wicked (15th Anniversary London Company); ensemble in Wicked (UK & Ireland Tour); ensemble in Carousel (English National Opera, London Coliseum); ‘Coricopat’, Assistant Dance Captain and understudy ‘Mr. Mistoffelees’ and ‘Mungojerrie’ in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, London Palladium and UK/International tour); ensemble and Dance Captain in Dick Whittington (Birmingham Hippodrome); ensemble in Dick McWhittington and Jack and the Beanstalk (Glasgow SECC) and dancer in Sunday Night at the Birmingham Hippodrome (Qdos Entertainment).

Television includes: All Star Musicals (ITV); ensemble in Singin’ in the Rain for The Royal Variety Performance (ITV) and dancer for Hard-Fi at the FA Cup Final (Wembley Stadium).

Film includes: dancer in Avengers: Age of Ultron (Marvel).

Micaela Todd

Training: Urdang Academy. Micaela is originally from South Africa and came to the UK in 2017 to train.

Micaela is so proud to be making her West End debut in Wicked and would like to thank her family, particularly her mum and dad for their continued love and support throughout her journey.

Taela Yeomans-Brown

Theatre includes: ensemble in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); ensemble in The Lion King (Lyceum) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre).

Television includes: The Royal Variety Performance (ITV).

Jacob Young

Theatre includes: ‘Haydn Parry’ in For Tonight (Adelphi); understudy ‘Sky’ in Mamma Mia! (Novello); ‘Preppy Stud/Officer’ and understudy ‘Ram’ in Heathers (The Other Palace); alternate ‘Johnny Casino’ in Grease (UK tour) and The Pirate Queen (London Coliseum).

The Producers cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular artist, which is always subject to illness, injury and statutory holiday entitlement.

Cast Holidays

Tuesday 14 th May to Sunday 19 th May 2024

Friday 9 th  August to Thursday 22 nd August 2024

Friday 15 th November to Sunday 17 th November 2024

Friday 14 th February to Sunday 16 th February 2025

Friday 2 nd August to Thursday 8 th August 2024

Tuesday 17 th September to Sunday 22 nd September 2024

Tuesday 26 th November to Thursday 5 th December 2024

Friday 3 rd May to Sunday 12 th May 2024

Tuesday 23 rd July to Sunday 28 th July 2024

Tuesday 20 th August to Sunday 25 th  August 2024

Tuesday 10 th December to Thursday 12 th December 2024

Stephen Schwartz

Music / Lyrics

Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for The Prince of Egypt , recently at the Dominion Theatre. Other shows to which he has contributed music and/or lyrics and which have been seen in the UK include Godspell, Pippin, Working, Rags, Children of Eden and The Baker’s Wife. For film, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Enchanted and its sequel Disenchanted. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. In the US, Mr. Schwartz has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A book about his career, Defying Gravity, has been published by Applause Books.

For more information, those interested are invited to visit: www.stephenschwartz.com

Winnie Holzman

Winnie received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked . She got her start in writing for the acclaimed television drama thirtysomething , and went on to create another memorable series: My So-Called Life , which starred Claire Danes. Other television credits include: Once and Again, Huge (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and Roadies (with Cameron Crowe). Theatre work includes: the musical Birds of Paradise , written with composer David Evans, and a ten-minute, oft-performed play called Post-its: (Notes on a Marriage) , written with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry David’s wife’s therapist on Curb Your Enthusiasm . She recently completed both screenplays for the film adaptation of Wicked , and her play Choice , which will be produced at the McCarter Theatre in Spring 2024. She is a graduate of Princeton University, the NYU Musical Theatre Program, and a proud member of the Writers Guild of America.

Joe Mantello

A two-time Tony Award-winning director, recent credits include: Here We Are; Grey House ; The Boys in the Band (Netflix and Broadway); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Hillary and Clinton; Three Tall Women (Tony nomination); The Humans (Tony nomination); Blackbird; An Act of God; The Last Ship; Casa Valentina; I’ll Eat You Last…; Dogfight; Other Desert Cities; The Pride; Pal Joey; 9 To 5: The Musical; Three Days of Rain; Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination); Laugh Whore; Assassins (Tony Award); Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; The Vagina Monologues and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination) . Acting credits include: Feud: Capote’s Women ; American Horror Story ; The Watcher (Netflix), Hollywood (Netflix) and the Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nomination) and Angels in America (Tony nomination). Mantello was nominated for Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and The SDC “Mr. Abbott” Awards and is a member of The Theatre Hall of Fame.

Wayne Cilento

Musical Staging

Nominated for seven Tony Awards, Cilento won his first for his choreography on the historic Broadway production of The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award, Fred Astaire Award, Olivier nomination).

Broadway : six Tony Award nominations for his choreographic work on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (starring Matthew Broderick), the Broadway production Holler If Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur, Director of Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical, the 2004 revival of Sweet Charity, Baby, Wicked and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Best Featured Actor in a Musical). Mr. Cilento also choreographed Elton John’s Aida on Broadway, on tour and the European productions in Germany and Amsterdam, as well as the iconic Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls. Cilento was a member of the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line (‘Mike’).

He has also directed and choreographed major commercials and concerts for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Pete Townsend, Alicia Keys and the Jonas Brothers. Cilento recently directed the critically acclaimed hit Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in Spring 2023.

Scenic Designer

Eugene Lee was Resident Designer at Trinity Rep in Providence, RI. He was the Production Designer of Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers .

Other Broadway credits include: Bright Star; Ragtime; Show Boat and Sweeney Todd.

Film includes: Coppola’s Hammett; Huston’s Mr. North; Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder.

BFA: The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon.

MFA: Yale School of Drama and three honorary PhDs.

Awards: Tony; Drama Desk; Lucille Lortel; Emmy; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award and DESIGNxRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eugene is an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, New York.

Susan Hilferty

Costume Designer

Hilferty has designed over 350 productions worldwide. London/UK – Scenery/Costumes: Salomé (National Theatre); Hamlet (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings (Tricycle) and The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (European tour). Costumes: Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Spring Awakening (Novello); Flying Karamazov Brothers’ 4Play (Vaudeville) and August Wilson’s Jitney (National). Scenery/Costumes/Associate Director: Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! and A Place with the Pigs (National); Valley Song (Royal Court) and Playland (Donmar). Directorial collaborators include: Yaël Farber, James Macdonald, Tony Kushner, Garry Hynes, Michael Longhurst, Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Jonathan Butterell, Robert Falls, Richard Nelson, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Selina Cartmell, Des McAnuff, Bartlett Sher, Doug Wright, Laurie Anderson, and Athol Fugard. Recent designs include: Funny Girl (Broadway and national tour); Parade (Broadway TONY Nomination) and Waiting for Godot (TFNA). Other: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now! World Tour; Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Upcoming: Avett Brothers’ Swept Away (Broadway) and Aida (Metropolitan Opera). Hilferty is on faculty of Graduate Design NYU/Tisch, having served as chair for 25 years. Her many awards include three Lifetime Achievement Awards plus TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Olivier nomination for Wicked .

Kenneth Posner

Lighting Designer

West End: Pretty Woman: The Musical;   Kinky Boots ; Legally Blonde ; Hairspray and  Wicked  (Olivier nominations) and  Side Man.

On Broadway over 50 plays and musicals including:   Beetlejuice;  Pretty Woman: The Musical; Mean Girls;  War Paint; On Your Feet!; Disgraced; If/Then; Kinky Boots; Pippin; Cinderella; Other Desert Cities; Coast of Utopia – Shipwreck  (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award);  Hairspray, The Merchant of Venice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels  and  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (Tony nominations);  Harvey; The Best Man; The Royal Family; Catch Me If You Can; 9 to 5: The Musical; Legally Blonde; The Pirate Queen; Lestat; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Women; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;  Edward Albee’s  The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View from the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes  and  The Rose Tattoo.

Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Recipient of the Obie Award for sustained excellence in lighting design.

Sound Designer

West End theatre includes: Come From Away (Associate Producer); Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café  and  Anything Goes. 

Broadway includes:   First Date  (Associate Producer);  The Mystery of Edwin Drood  (Drama Desk Award);  Lysistrata Jones  (Producer and Sound Designer);  Wicked ; Pal Joey ; The Ritz  and  Laugh Whore  (all with Joe Mantello);  Man of La Mancha ; Sweet Smell of Success ; Copenhagen ; Kiss Me, Kate ; Footloose ; The Lion King  (Drama Desk Award);  The Sound of Music; Juan Darien ; A Christmas Carol  (MSG);  Steel Pier ; Forum ; The King and I ; Moon Over Buffalo ; Smokey Joe’s Café ; Guys and Dolls ; Five Guys Named Moe ; She Loves Me ; The Red Shoes  and  Anything Goes.

National and international include:   The Lion King ; Les Misérables ; Mozart  and  Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame.

Off-Broadway includes:   Here Lies Jenny  and  The Normal Heart.

Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Elaine J. McCarthy

Projection Designer

Elaine’s international career spans over 25 years in nearly every area of live performance. Her Broadway credits include: Spamalot ; Impressionism ; The People in the Picture ; Assassins ; Man of La Mancha ; Into the Woods ; Thurgood and Judgment at Nuremberg . Additional career highlights include: Great Scott ; Everest ; Iolanta ; Tristan und Isolde and Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera); War and Peace (Metropolitan Opera and Kirov Opera); Tan Dun and Peter Sellars’ The Peony Pavilion at the Wiener Festwochen (Opera); Frequency Hopping (set and projections); Distracted (set and projections); Embedded ; Fran’s Bed ; Speaking in Tongues ; The Stendhal Syndrome and The Thing About Men (Off-Broadway); Tan Dun’s The Gate (NHK Symphony); Don Byron’s Tunes and ’Toons at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (Concert); Peter Buffett’s Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song and Chen Shi-Zheng’s Forgiveness at Asia Society/New York (Dance); Adidas; Sony/Epic Records; Kenneth Cole; Calvin Klein Cosmetics and the 1996 and 1997 CFDA Awards (Fashion/Industrial) and the 2008 documentary film, Secrecy .

Hair and Wig Designer

Tom Watson headed the Wig and Make Up department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions including Wicked; Rock of Ages; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The Addams Family; Annie; Act One; You Can’t Take It With You; The King and I (LCT and tour); The Sound of Music (national tour); Dames at Sea; Thérèse Raquin; Fiddler on the Roof; Bright Star (Broadway and tour); Oslo (LCT); Long Day’s Journey into Night; Falsettos; The Little Foxes; Junk (LCT) and The Parisian Woman .

Joe Dulude II

Make Up Designer

Broadway and West End: MJ ; Wicked and Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Broadway: KPOP ; Beetlejuice ; Torch Song Trilogy ; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical ; Summer: The Donna Summer Musical ; Sunday in the Park with George ; Anastasia ; Allegiance ; If/Then ; Follies ; Jekyll & Hyde ; The Normal Heart and Grease . Off Broadway: KPOP ; Fly ; Sweet Charity ; Into the Woods ; The Wild Party and Show Boat . Television: The Perfect Couple ; Annie Live! ; Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (Emmy nomination); The Gilded Age ; Julia and Castle Rock Season 2. Film: Good Burger 2 ; Hocus Pocus 2 ; The Holdovers ; Thug ; Don’t Look Up ; About Fate ; Godmothered ; The Discovery and Ghostbusters. www.joedulude2.com

Stephen Oremus

Music Supervisor / Arrangements

Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award) and Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Worldwide Music Supervisor/Arranger of Wicked; Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5: The Musical; Grammy nominee as Co-Producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5: The Musical Broadway cast recording. Other credits: Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger and Orchestrator: tick, tick… BOOM!; Music Director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Conductor and contributing Orchestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; Music Director of the 87th Academy Awards telecast and The Wiz Live! on NBC TV.

William David Brohn

Orchestrations

William received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other Broadway and West End credits include: Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward); the revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward); Curtains; Mary Poppins; The Secret Garden; Show Boat; Crazy for You; Carousel; Sweet Smell of Success; Oklahoma!; Oliver!; The Witches of Eastwick; My Fair Lady; South Pacific; Betty Blue Eyes and Barnum (Chichester). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

Alex Lacamoire

Music Arrangements

Alex Lacamoire is a four-time Grammy, three-time Tony, three-time Olivier, and Emmy Award winner for his work on Hamilton ; Dear Evan Hansen ; In the Heights and FX’s mini-series Fosse/Verdon. Alex was also the recipient of a first-of-its-kind Kennedy Center Honors for his contribution to Hamilton . Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator include: Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway Revival); Bring It On: The Musical ; Wicked ; Bat Boy and Godspell . He served as the Executive Music Producer for the films: The Greatest Showman ; In the Heights ; VIVO ; Dear Evan Hansen and tick, tick… Boom!

James Lynn Abbott

Dance Arrangements

Broadway: Aida; Tarzan; Bombay Dreams; Rent; Footloose; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Cats; Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon . National tours include: Starlight Express; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar among others. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and with Elton John in Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden. Clients include Dr Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

Gregory Maguire

Author of Original Novel

Gregory had written a dozen novels for children before launching his first adult novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West . A devotee of children’s fantasy, Gregory’s subsequent novels for adults are variations on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a seventeenth-century maid from Haarlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’ Scrooge and Mirror Mirror concerns a High Renaissance Snow White trapped in a household governed by the scheming Borgias. Gregory’s latest novel, After Alice, honours the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland . Gregory’s novel Wicked i s now followed by subsequent volumes in The Wicked Years sequence: New York Times bestsellers Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and the final volume, Out of Oz .

Edward Pierce

Associate Scenic Designer

Select Broadway/Tours: Angels in America (Tony nomination); Wicked (all worldwide productions); The Phantom of the Opera (world tour); Love Never Dies (international tour); Bright Star; Amazing Grace; Holler If Ya Hear Me; The Other Place; A Streetcar Named Desire; Shatner’s World; Billy Elliot the Musical; Pippin; 9 to 5: The Musical; The Pirate Queen; Aida; Ragtime; Cabaret and Noise/Funk. Television: NBC’s Maya & Marty and Universal Kids Sprout House.

Edward represents designers as President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829. www.edwardpierce.com

Lisa Leguillou

US Associate Director

Lisa has also worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in Sex and the City, NYPD Blue and NY Undercover and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Everyone Says I Love You and HBO’s Angels in America.

US Dance Supervisor

Broadway Associate: Dear Evan Hansen; The Cher Show; My Fair Lady; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint and If/Then. West End Associate: My Fair Lady; Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked . International Supervisor: Wicked. Film/TV Associate: Isn’t It Romantic? and Schmigadoon. Other includes: Assassins (Associate, NYC Encores!); In Your Arms (Associate, The Old Globe); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Choreographer, Casa Mañana) and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Choreographer, Tour).

www.markmyars.com

Petra Siniawski

UK Associate Director

West End leading roles: Annie; West Side Story; On Your Toes and A Chorus Line . Repertory theatre roles: Chicago; Lulu; Bells Are Ringing; Stepping Out and Blithe Spirit . Television and Films: The Music Lovers; The Boyfriend; Fiddler on the Roof; The Slipper and the Rose; Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels and Billy Elliot . Choreographer: Jesus Christ Superstar; Hair; Poppy; Annie; The King and I; Guys and Dolls; Iolanthe; Dreams of Leaving (TV) and The Peter Hall Company’s Twelfth Night . Recently played ‘Mother’ in Paul Harnett’s Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre) and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in The Oliviers in Concert (BBC 3). Director: The Sound of Music; Sweet Charity; West Side Story and The Apollo Victoria 80 th Anniversary Gala . West End musicals as Associate Director: Always; Annie; Kiss Me, Kate; Ragtime and The Producers . UK national tours as Associate Director: Annie; Kiss Me, Kate and The Producers following their West End productions. Recently appeared in the Wicked film as ‘Autograph Hunter’. Assistant to: Joe Mantello, Susan Stroman, Michael Blakemore, Martin Charnin, Kathleen Marshall, Tommy Tune, Larry Fuller, John Doyle and Stafford Arima. Associate Director for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour.

UK Resident Dance Supervisor

Training: Stage Door School of Dancing, Bournemouth and London Studio Centre. Theatre includes: UK Dance Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour and UK/International Tour; the title role in Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre); flying workshop for Peter Pan (The O2); The Apollo Victoria 80 th Anniversary Gala; Dancing in The Dark (Clapham Grand); Spirit of the Dance (UK tour); Journey of Jazz (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells); Dance Captain and understudy ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (The Anvil, Basingstoke); The Jazz Dance Company (Peacock Theatre, London) and West End Bares (Café de Paris). Television and Film includes: Infatuation for Kate Alexa; American Boy/New Generation video for PaM’s People, Killa Kela MTV music video and Children in Need . Hannah has taught at leading vocational colleges including The BRIT School, Arts Educational Schools London and London Studio Centre, and is a qualified Body Control Pilates teacher.

James Draisey

UK Music Supervisor

UK Music Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. Music Supervisor:  Viking Ocean Cruises (Blackburn International); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Children of Eden (Prince of Wales); Search for a Twitter Star Live (Piccadilly); She’s the One (Savoy) and The Apollo Victoria 8 0 th Anniversary Gala.  Other credits include: Fame (West End and UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (West End and UK tour); Sinatra (West End); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Light Princess (National Theatre workshop) and Louise Dearman in Concert. Other freelance work includes: The Ratpack (West End); Taboo (West End); Regent’s Park; Chichester Festival Theatre; The Drifters (UK and international tour dates) and live radio broadcasts for Katherine Jenkins and Friday Night is Music Night.

Ron Crocker

Musical Director (London)

Ron studied at The Royal Academy of Music and King’s College London. As Musical Director credits include: The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Assistant Musical Director: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Book of Mormon  (Prince of Wales). As Associate Conductor/Children’s MD: Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Workshop MD credits include: Nativity! The Musical and Miss Atomic Bomb . Ron has also coached and consulted as a children’s vocal specialist on major West End and touring musicals. He is proud to have been made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) where he coaches on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course.

Matthew J. Loughran

Musical Director (Tour)

Matthew has recently been Musical Director for Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre and Supervisor of The Wizard Of Oz for Royal Caribbean’s new ship Icon Of The Seas.

Musical Director for Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (West End). Phantom Of The Opera ; Miss Saigon ; Evita; The Commitments and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (International Tours). Associate for Old Friends: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (West End); Musical Supervisor for The Commitments ; MD & Supervisor for Ain’t Misbehavin and The Concert They Never Gave (UK tours); Rent and Edges (London). Associate Conductor Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre; cover conductor Sister Act – the Musical (UK tour) and workshopped Andrew Lloyd Webbers production of Cinderella .

Associate: Jekyll & Hyde ; Whistle Down the Wind and Cabaret (UK tours). Pianist and Rehearsal MD: Les Misérables ; Singin’ in the Rain ; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Top Hat (West End). Dancing in the Streets , Scrooge , and Doctor Dolittle (tour). Matthew was also supervisor and arranger for P&O world cruises.

Orchestration & Arrangement: The Wizard Of Oz ; Coming Home For Christmas; A Handful Of Distraction Series; Help for Heroes ; Love Beyond ; Dreamboats and Petticoats ; Jekyll & Hyde ; Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ; Cissie and Ada ; Lullaby of Broadway (UK) and Annie (Hong Kong).

Matthew would like to thank his wife Laura and daughter Matilda for their continued love and support.

Alastair Knights

Resident Director (Tour)

Theatre includes: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads (Australia and New Zealand); Madagascar The Musical (Australian Premiere and US National Tour); Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); All On Her Own (Digital Production for Stream.Theatre – OnCom Award Nomination for Best Production); A Little Night Music (Opera Holland Park); Sitting (Hong Kong ArtisTree); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK and Ireland Tour); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Union Theatre – Off West End Award Nomination for Best Director); The Spitfire Grill (Union Theatre – BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Production of a Musical); Putting it Together (GLive and St. James Theatre – London Premiere); and Dream Queen (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Television includes: The Elaine Paige Show  (Sky Arts).

Concert work includes: My Fair Lady: The 60th Anniversary Celebration  (St Pauls);  A Little Night Music  (Palace Theatre) and Kings of Broadway  (Palace Theatre).

Alastair is thrilled to be joining the Creative Team of the Wicked UK and Ireland Tour and would like to thank his friends and family for their continued support.

Jim Arnold CDG

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and international tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain & Ireland. Theatre includes:  Wicked  (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland Tour);  Pretty Woman: The Musical  (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour);  Shrek The Musical  (UK tour and Eventim Apollo);  Bonnie & Clyde  (Garrick and UK tour);  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical  (Leeds Playhouse and UK & Ireland tour);  The Great British Bake Off Musical  (Noël Coward and Everyman Cheltenham);  When Darkness Falls  (UK tour);  Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical  (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour);  Rock of Ages  (UK tour);  The Prince of Egypt  (Dominion);  West Side Story  (Royal Exchange, Manchester);  Curtains  (Wyndham’s and UK tour);  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin  (Harold Pinter and UK tour);  The Mirror Crack’d  (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative);  Eugenius!  (The Other Palace);  The Wedding Singer  (Troubadour Theatre and UK tour) and  Matilda The Musical  (Original Casting Associate for the RSC).

Lloyd Thomas

UK Production Manager

Lloyd trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before starting his career at the National Theatre and the Young Vic. Productions include:  The Prince of Egypt  (Dominion);  9 to 5: The Musical  (UK tour);  A Little Life  (Harold Pinter);  Bridgerton  and  Guardi ans of the Galaxy  (Secret Cinema);  Betrayal ,  Cyrano de Bergerac  and  Pinter Season  (Harold Pinter and Broadway);  The Time Traveller’s Wife  (UK tour);  Rusalka  (English National Opera);  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin  ( Harold Pinter and UK tour );  The Wild Duck  (Almeida);  Summer and Smoke  (Duke of York’s);  The Jungle  (Playhouse and Broadway);  Nightfall  (Bridge Theatre);  Tina: The Tina Turner Musical  (Aldwych, Associate PM);  The Christmasaurus Live  (Hammersmith Apollo);  Project Polunin  (London Coliseum);  The Lady from the Sea  (Donmar);  Shakespeare Trilogy  (Donmar and Broadway);  Oslo  (National Theatre and Harold Pinter); Buried Child  and  The Spoils  (Trafalgar Studios);  Blue/Orange  and  Macb eth  (Young Vic);  Lela & Co  (Royal Court);  Fleabag  and  The Mentalists  (Wyndham’s);  A View from the Bridge  (Wyndham’s, Associate PM);  Constellations  (Donmar and UK tour);  Neville’s Island  (Duke of York’s) and  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Assistant PM).

Matt Towell

Production Manager (Tour)

Nick Salmon & Nia Janis for Playful Productions

UK General Management

As General Manager productions include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & Ireland Tours and International Tour); Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); MJ (Prince Edward, March 2024); Next to Normal (Wyndham’s, June 2024) and Come From Away (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Phoenix). As Producer and General Manager productions include: Dr. Strangelove (Noël Coward, October 2024); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth, May 2024); Opening Night (as Producer – Gielgud, March 2024); The Unfriend (Criterion, and Wyndham’s); The House of Bernarda Alba (as Producer – National Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sheffield, Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Little Life (as Producer – Richmond, Harold Pinter and Savoy); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (UK & Ireland tour); Good (Harold Pinter) and Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric). As Executive Producer productions include: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); MJ (Prince Edward, 2024) and Wild Rose (in development). www.playfuluk.com

321 Theatrical Management

Worldwide Management

Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s past and present Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include: Wicked (worldwide); SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Fully Committed and Bat Boy . Individual productions include: The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Santaland Diaries; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; Rent; Guys and Dolls and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Broadway: Wicked; Topdog/Underdog (Tony Award); Fat Ham (Tony nomination); A Strange Loop (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (Tony Award); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Pal Joey and Three Days of Rain . Off-Broadway and UK: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures production of Edward Scissorhands (Drama Desk Award). Films: Wicked (2024); The Little Mermaid; Babylon; Cruella; Dear Evan Hansen; The Trial of the Chicago 7 (BAFTA and Oscar nominations); Thunder Force; Mary Poppins Returns; La La Land (BAFTA Best Film Award, Oscar nomination); The Girl on the Train; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Bridge of Spies (Oscar nomination); Into the Woods; Drive (BAFTA nomination); Ricki and the Flash; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Legally Blonde; Rachel Getting Married; Wanted; Nine; Hotel Artemis; 2 Guns; Lost River; Legally Blonde 2; The Other Woman; Winter’s Tale; Charlie St. Cloud; Cop Out; The Seeker; The Perfect Man; Honey and Josie and The Pussycats . Television: Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+, Emmy nomination); Oslo (HBO, Emmy nomination); Rent (FOX); Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC, Emmy Award); A Christmas Story Live! (FOX); Grease Live! (FOX, Emmy Award); Empire Falls (HBO); Taking The Stage (MTV); Once Upon A Mattress (ABC) and The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal).

David Stone

David Stone is currently represented by  Wicked ; Topdog/Underdog and Kimberly Akimbo . He has also produced  The Boys in the Band ;  War Paint;   If/Then;   Next to Normal;   The 25 th  Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee;   Three Days of Rain; Man of La Mancha; The Vagina Monologues; Fully Committed; Lifegame; The Diary of Anne Frank; Full Gallop; The Santaland Diaries  and  Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theater. David has lectured on theatre at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Universal Stage Productions

Universal Stage Productions, a division of Universal Theatrical Group, is the live theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio. Universal’s musical phenomenon Wicked is now in its 17th year in the West End. With multiple international productions, including the original Broadway production which premiered in 2003, Wicked has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide making it one of the most successful theatrical ventures of all time. Universal’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won four Olivier Awards and ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, concluded its 11 year run in the West End and has toured globally. Additional credits under UTG’s DreamWorks Theatricals banner include Shrek The Musical and the hit West End production of The Prince of Egypt.

Jon B. Platt

Mr. Platt’s many honours include The Laurence Olivier Award, 14 Tony Awards, The Robert Whitehead Award for Distinguished Producing on Broadway and a Lifetime Membership in The Broadway League. His award-winning productions include: Angels in America ; Company ; Hangmen ; Copenhagen ; God of Carnage ; The Humans ; The Book of Mormon ; Death of a Salesman ; Clybourne Park ; A Raisin in the Sun ; A View From the Bridge ; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ; Skylight ; Venus in Fur ; Blackbird ; No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot ; The Audience ; The Crucible ; King Charles III ; The Heiress and  The Children’s Hour .

The Araca Group

Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group LLC produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.

For more information please visit:  www.araca.com

Michael M c Cabe

Executive Producer (UK)

Michael is an independent, four-time Olivier Award-winning theatre producer in the UK and Tony Award-nominated on Broadway. He has, since its UK premiere in 2006, served as Executive Producer of Wicked , which is already the 11 th longest running production in West End theatre history. Additional West End producing credits: The Prince of Egypt; An American in Paris; Sweeney Todd; Million Dollar Quartet and Spring Awakening . Tours: Wicked (three UK & Ireland Tours, and the International Tour). Broadway: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Lysistrata Jones and Promises, Promises . Michael was the original Marketing Director of Mamma Mia!, overseeing the first 14 international premieres.

Michael Conlon

Company Manager (London)

Sadie Jennings

Stage Manager (London)

Briony Allen

Deputy Stage Manager (London)

Sarah Hellicar

Alexandra legg.

Assistant Stage Manager (London)

Sarah Spencer

Kristi warwick.

Company Manager (Tour)

Becca Mitchell

Assistant Company Manager (Tour)

Stage Manager (Tour)

Elli Andrews

Deputy Stage Manager (Tour)

Bethany Lockitt

Assistant Stage Manager (Tour)

Christina Milroy

Andrew swarbrigg.

Theatre includes: ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Standby for ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Dr Osgood’ and featured ensemble in Anyone Can Whistle (Union Theatre) and understudy ‘Maria’ in The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park).

Other work includes: Magic at the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall); Big Night of Musicals (BBC); The Show Must Go On (Palace Theatre); lead vocalist for Belinda King Creative Productions; So This is Christmas (UK tour) and chorus for The Songs of My Life: An Evening with Peter Polycarpou (Garrick).

Laura would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support.

Sarah O’Connor

Theatre includes: ‘Anna’ in Frozen (Australia and Singapore); ‘Fanny’ in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (Southbank Centre); understudy ‘Anna’ in Frozen (Original London Cast, Theatre Royal Drury Lane); cover ‘Jenna’ and ‘Dawn’ in Waitress (Original London Cast, Adelphi); Celtic Angels (US tour); ‘Mistress’ in Evita (Phoenix Theatre & UK tour); ‘Imelda’ in The Commitments (Original London Cast, Palace); understudy ‘Eponine’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s); 1st cover ‘Sophie’ in Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales and ‘Snow White’ in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (Grand Opera House, Belfast).

Television includes : Fame: Remember My Name (RTÉ).

Theatre includes: Alternate ‘L’ in Death Note (Lyric); understudy ‘Romeo’ in  & Juliet (Shaftesbury); ensemble and understudy ‘Fiyero’ in Wicked  (Apollo Victoria); ‘Rory’ in  Proud  (Turbine Theatre); ‘Nintendo’ in  Starlight Express  (The Other Palace); ‘Aladdin’ in Disney’s Aladdin  (USA); understudy ‘Galileo’ in  We Will Rock You  (RCCL);  Tiger Bay The Musical  (Wales Millennium Centre) and  The Who’s Tommy  (USA).

Films includes: ‘Joseph The Boy Scientist’ in the animated film  Cosmic Rhapsody.

Workshops include: ‘Ortano’ in Tinker Bell the Musical ; ‘Dezza’ in  Great British Bake Off The Musical and ‘David’ in  If/Then .

Other work includes:   the Olivier Awards 2023 (Royal Albert Hall, ITV); Magic At The Musicals  (Royal Albert Hall);  The West End Men  (Park Theatre) and  Kings Of Broadway  (Palace).

Donna Berlin

Theatre includes : ‘Sally’ in The Way Old Friends Do (Criterion, West End and UK tour); ‘Tiwa’ in The Clinic (Almeida); ‘Aggie/Sarah’ In The Gift (Belgrade Coventry/Stratford/East); ‘Amanda Baptiste’ in Chasing Rainbows (Hoxton Hall); ‘Mavis James’ in Princess and The Hustler (Eclipse TC); ‘Starveling’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Crucible Theatre Sheffield); ‘Charlotte/Ludmilla’ in Great Apes (Arcola); ‘Nurse’ in The Chalk Garden (Chichester Festival); ‘Arabelle Sicardi’ in Of Kith And Kin (Sheffield Crucible/The Bush); ‘Countess Bezzubova/Agetha Mikhailovna’ in Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange/West Yorkshire Playhouse); ‘Mama Kyeyune’ in The Rolling Stone (Manchester Royal Exchange/West Yorkshire Playhouse); ‘Mother-in-Law’ in Blood Wedding (Northampton Theatre Royal) and ‘Tituba’ in The Bacchae (Northampton Theatre Royal).

Television includes : ‘Nurse’ in Such Brave Girls (BBC); Nolly (ITV); Breeders (Sky); Eastenders; Doctors (BBC); Nuzzle & Scratch; Beautiful People and Extras (BBC); Game Face (Objective Media); Requiem (Requiem Productions); Drifters (E4) Todd Margaret (RDF/IFC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Coronation Stree t (ITV); Lead Balloon (BBC) and New Tricks (Wall to Wall).

Film includes: In Darkness ; MonoChrome and Dinner With My Sisters .

Simeon Truby

The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond

Training: Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre includes: Wicked (Apollo Victoria); War Horse (UK tour); Sweeney Todd (Adelphi); The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Mouse and His Child (RSC); The Crucible; A Little Night Music; And a Nightingale Sang; The Glee Club; Little Shop of Horrors; Grow Up Grandad; The Pitman Painters; My Family & Other Animals; Parlour Song; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Summer Lightning; A Chorus of Disapproval; A Christmas Carol; Our Country’s Good; The Recruiting Officer; The Hired Man; The Wizard of Oz; The Snow Queen; Romeo and Juliet; Charley’s Aunt; The Merchant of Venice; Oh! What a Lovely War; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Eight Miles High; Two; Much Ado About Nothing; Schweyk in the Second World War; Jerusalem; To Kill a Mockingbird; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It and The Tempest.

Television includes: Emmerdale; The Street; The Royal; Island at War; A Touch of Frost and Coronation Street.

Theatre includes: cover ‘Elder Cunningham’ and ‘Elder McKinley’ in The Book of Mormon (West End and UK/international tour); ‘Ernest Boulton/Stella’ in Fanny & Stella (Garden Theatre); ‘Angel’ and cover ‘Referee’ in Kinky Boots (Adelphi); The Oliviers in Concert (Royal Festival Hall); The Sound of Music (UK tour) and A Doll’s House (Leeds Playhouse).

Television includes: ‘Harry Hastings’ in The Royal and ‘Sam Denton’ in The Royal Today (ITV).

Film includes : ‘Angel’ in Kinky Boots: The Musical (Feature Film) and ‘Alex’ in Alex (Short Film).

Other credits include : ‘Michael’ in Stiles & Drewe’s Peter Pan (cast recording); ‘Toby’ in The Ascension of Mrs Leech (workshop) and ‘Death’ in Soul Music (workshop).

Daniel Hope

Boq (Injury Cover)

Theatre includes : ‘Frankie Valli’ in Jersey Boys (Norwegian Cruise Line); ‘Boq’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Michael Wormwood’ and understudy ‘Doctor’ in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre);  ‘White Rabbit’ in Alice: A New Musical (St.James Theatre); ‘Alan’ in Bare: The Rock Musical (Greenwich Theatre) and ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (Rotherham Civic).

Television includes : Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV); Royal Variety Performance , The Virgin Queen , Children in Need and Eastenders (BBC).

Film includes : Matilda The Musical (Netflix); Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Warner Bros. Pictures) and Cuban Fury (Film4).

Workshops include : Pretty Woman The Musical ; Eddie / Hobie and Baywatch The Musical .

Megan Gardiner

Training: MGA Academy of Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: ‘Hannah’ in Allegiance (UK Premiere, Charing Cross Theatre); understudy ‘Cosette’ and ensemble in Les Miserables (UK and Ireland tour); understudy ‘Dorothy’ and ensemble in The Wizard of Oz (Cork Opera House); The Great American Trailer Park (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh); Spring Awakening (King’s Theatre, Edinburgh); Ten ; A Christmas Wish and Broadway Bound (Usher Hall, Edinburgh).

Megan is thrilled to join the cast of the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour.

Casey Al-Shaqsy

Training : Arts Educational Schools London.

Theatre Include : SIX (UK and Ireland tour); Midnight Cowboy (workshop); RUMI: the Musical (Coliseum); Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Once on this Island (Arts Educational); Newsies (Arts Educational); On The Town (BBC Proms); West Side Story (BBC Proms) and the Olivier Awards 2018 (Royal Albert Hall, ITV).

Thomas Charles

Theatre Includes : ensemble and Dance Captain in Berlin Berlin (Germany/tour); ensemble in Giovanni Pernice- This is Me (UK tour); ensemble & Dance Captain in Cinderella (Richmond Theatre); ‘Peter’ in Coppelia (KVN Dance Company) and ensemble in A Christmas Carol – The Musical (Winter Gardens, Blackpool).

Television includes: Classical Brit Awards – West Side Story (ITV) and Die Helene Fischer Show (ZDF).

Thomas would like to thank his friends and family for their constant support and is so excited to be a part of this incredible show.

Julie Cloke

Training: American Musical Theatre Academy.

Theatre includes: ensemble and ‘Cook’ in At Last, Its Summer (London Palladium); ‘Rosie’ in Mamma Mia! (Royal Caribbean Cruises); lead vocalist for Eurovibes – A Eurovision Party (St. Peter’s Pavilion, Brighton); ‘Cracker the Elf’ in The Elves Save Christmas (Valley Garden, Brighton); ‘Gertie’ in At Last, It’s Summer (workshop); ensemble, ‘Sheik Yabooty’ and Assistant Choreographer in Big Dick Whittington! (Brick Lane Music Hall); ensemble and Dance Captain in Dawn of Silence (Tristan Bates Theatre); ‘Girl 3 Vatican’ and ‘UK & Estonia’ in Euroboat -The Eurovision Musical (European tour); ‘Clarise’ in Eternally Yours The Musical and ‘Deb’ in Ordinary Days (Ye Old Rose & Crown).

Other credits include: Resident Production Vocalist for Brick Lane Music Hall .

Charlotte Coggin

Training : The Urdang Academy. Theatre includes: Death Note the Musical in Concert (London Palladium and Lyric); The Greatest Night Of The Jazz Age (The Lost Estate); swing and understudy ‘Baby’ in Dirty Dancing (Dominion); Dance Captain and swing in South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells, UK tour and Chichester Festival); Dance Captain and swing in Top Hat (The Mill at Sonning); Remembering The Oscars (UK tour); Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Rip It Up The 70s (UK tour); swing in The Bodyguard (UK tour and Vienna); swing in Grease (UK tour) and Mamma Mia! (Royal Caribbean).

Film Includes: Disenchanted (Walt Disney Productions) and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing The Star (Netflix).

Other work includes : Music video for Remember To Forget (Passenger); In Time Music (Self Esteem) and Eurovision (BBC).

Charlotte is thrilled to join the cast of Wicked and would like to dedicate her performance to her dad.

Freddie Conway

Television includes: cast member in Dance 100 (Netflix); core dancer at the MTV European Music Awards (for Kim Petras, David Guetta, Bebe Rexha and Gayle) and actor in the Boots Christmas advert (2019).

Other work includes : dancer for The Pussycat Doll’s Kimberly Wyatt’s Don’t Cha Disco (tour) red carpet dancer at the British Fashion Awards (for Billy Porter dressed by Richard Quinn); dancer for Tayce (The Clapham Grand); dancer / model for Ted Baker’s Street Party Sessions.

This is Freddie’s musical theatre debut. After enjoying Wicked in the West End numerous times as an audience member, he is beyond excited to get on stage and be immersed in the magic of Oz.

Áine Curran

Theatre includes: Resident Choreographer, ensemble and understudy ‘Lady’ and ‘Georgia’ in The Cher Show (UK tour); ensemble and understudy ‘Anita Berber’ in Berlin Berlin (German tour); swing and understudy ‘Ali’ in Mamma Mia! (UK & international tour); ensemble in Ich war noch niemals in New York and ensemble and understudy ‘Ali’ in Mamma Mia! Das Musical (Germany).

Jade Davies

Training : The Urdang Academy.

Theatre includes : Elf the Musical (Dominion); 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park); My Fair Lady (Teatro Massimo, Palermo); West Side Story (Estonia National Opera); The Wizard Of Oz (Birmingham Rep); The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre, London); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK and Ireland tour); Sister Act (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage); understudy ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s) and Aladdin (Venue Cymru, Llandudno).

Recordings include: ‘Molly’ in For Tonight (Concept Album).

Kamau Davis

Training : The BRIT School and Bird College.

Theatre includes: She Loves Me (Crucible Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (York Theatre Royal) and Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall).

Television includes : Britain’s Got Talent and The BRIT Awards (ITV).

Film includes: Snow White (due for release 2024).

Russell Dickson

Theatre Includes : ‘Munkustrap’ in Cats (Taiwan and international arena tour); ‘Joe’ in 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); understudy ‘Tinman’ 1st cover ‘Tinman’ in The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); ensemble in Evita (Regent’s Park); ‘New Sailor’ in On The Town and ensemble in West Side Story (BBC Proms); Disney’s Newsies, Cry-baby and Curtains (Arts Educational).

Film includes: ‘The Man’ in Before the Law (Fabula Collective).

Workshops include : ‘Pablo Neruda’ in The Postman and the Poet (The Other Palace).

Maddison Firth

Training : SLP College, Leeds.

Theatre includes:  ‘Carrie/Super Hot Lady’ in Eugenius! The Musical (Turbine Theatre); ‘Heather Chandler’ in Heathers (The Other Palace & UK tour); swing in Six (Norwegian Cruise Line); ‘Lead Vocalist’ (AIDA Cruise line) and ensemble and understudy ‘Fairy’ in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (The Carriageworks).

Television includes: Waterloo Road (BBC).

Film includes : ‘Heather Chandler’ in Heathers (Amazon Prime, The Roku Channel & UK Cinemas).

Maddison is thrilled to be a part of the UK & Ireland Tour of Wicked and would like to thank her family and friends for all their continued love and support.

Lydia Gerrard

Training : London School of Musical Theatre.

Theatre includes : understudy ‘Grizabella’ and ‘Jellylorum/Griddlebone’ in Cats (South Korea and Taiwan); ensemble and cover ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of The Opera (UK & Ireland tour) and ensemble in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ‘ (English National Opera, London Coliseum).

Television includes: ‘Young Beth’ in Jonathan Creek (BBC).

Workshops include:  ‘Deanna Durbin’ in Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz .

James Gower-Smith

Ensemble, The Wizard & Doctor Dillamond U/S

Training: London School of Musical Theatre & University of Manchester (Bachelor of Music).

Theatre whilst training includes : ‘Neil’ and Vocal Captain in Oregano; ensemble and Clarinettist in Carmen (workshop); ‘Florim’ in Under the Canvas Sky .

Theatre includes: Singer in Thursford Christmas Spectacular (2021 & 2022).

Other work includes : Tenor in The Wellermen (Lindblad/National Geographic Cruise performance); Lead in Tagline Quartet in Don’t Hate The Playaz and Britain’s Got More Talent (Live) (ITV2).

Theatre includes: ‘Shoko Aizawa’ in The Garden of Words (Park Theatre); for New Adventures: ‘Feral’, ‘Miss Maddox’ and understudy ‘Aurora’ in Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty (UK & international tour); ‘Elisabetta’ in The Car Man (Royal Albert Hall); ‘Cupid’, ‘Marshmallow’ & cover ‘Clara’ in Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (UK tour) and ‘Romanian Princess’ and ‘German Princess’ in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (UK & international tour).

Film includes: for New Adventures: ‘Feral’ in Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty (2023); ‘Marshmallow’ in Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (2022) and ‘Romanian Princess’ in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (2019).

Other work includes : Tannery Series 002 campaign for Ecco Japan (2022) and short dance film Resilience for Tracing Movement directed and choreographed by Stuart Winter (2021).

Holly Lawrence

Training : Bird College.

Theatre includes : Dance Captain, ensemble and understudy ‘Frenchy’ in  Grease  and  Columbus, the Musical (Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas); Dance Captain, ensemble and understudy ‘Annie’ and ‘Winnie’ in Annie Get Your Gun  (The Lavender Theatre).

Ensemble, Chistery, Boq U/S

Training: Patrick Studios Australia and Boxhill Institute (Bachelor of Music).

Theatre includes : original London Company in Death Note the Musical in Concert (London Palladium and Cast Recording); understudy ‘Boq’ in Wicked  (Apollo Victoria);  Chess in Concert  (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); swing and Assistant Dance Captain in  The King and I (London Palladium, UK and international tour); Thoroughly Modern Millie  (UK tour); Dance Captain in  Heaven on Earth  (UK tour) and  Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible and UK tour).

Television includes : contestant on The Voice Australia and The Jonathan Ross Show with Dame Edna (ITV).

Film includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and The King and I – Live from the London Palladium.

Other work includes : Associate Musical Director for  Barry Humphries’ farewell tour (London Palladium, UK, Australia & New Zealand tour); Vanara (Concept Album).

Stephanie Lindo

Ensemble, Nessarose U/S

Training : Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre includes:  ensemble and understudy ‘Wendy’, ‘Marie’ and ‘Olive’ in The Osmonds: A New Musical (UK tour); ‘Princess Aurora’ in Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and ‘Jacques’ in The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi (Kenneth More Theatre).

Other work includes:  concerts for Wicked Women Of The West End  (The Union Theatre) and Turn Up London (Online).

Swing, Resident Dance Coordinator

Training:   Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Dance Captain and swing in  Bugsy Malone  (UK tour);   Associate Choreographer for  Something Rotten! (Wermland Opera, Sweden); ensemble in  Wicked  (10th and 15th Anniversary Companies, Apollo Victoria);   Dance Captain in  Beauty and the Beast  (Oxford Playhouse);   ‘Bill Bailey’ and u/s ‘Mungojerrie’ in  Cats  (UK tour); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  (Kensington Gardens)   and Anthems: The Concert with Kerry Ellis and Brian May   (Royal Albert Hall).

Television includes:  This Morning  (ITV);  The Apprentice; You’re Hired!  (BBC) ; The Olivier Awards  (Royal Albert Hall, ITV) and   commercials for  Adidas  and  Marks & Spencer. 

Will Luckett

Theatre includes:  Dance Captain and swing in Pretty Woman (Savoy); Assistant Dance Captain, swing and understudy ‘Corny Collins’ in Hairspray  (London Coliseum); ‘Bobby C’ in  Saturday Night Fever (UK tour and Tokyo); ‘Ruhrgold’ and understudy ‘Dustin’ in Starlight Express (30 th Anniversary, Bochum, Germany); swing and understudy ‘Dustin’, ‘Components’ and ‘Engines’ in Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); swing and understudy in Disaster  (Charing Cross Theatre); ‘Lucky’ in  Beauty And The Beast  (Harlow Playhouse); ensemble in We Will Rock You  (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line); ensemble and understudy ‘Dick’ in Dick Whittington (Wyvern Theatre, Swindon) and ensemble and understudy ‘King Rat’ in Dick Whittington (White Rock, Hastings).

Rozz Mbwembwe

Training: The Urdang Academy.

Theatre whilst training includes: Lead dancer in Can You Dance? ; Dance Captain and dancer in Urdang DCP Dance Showcase (Urdang Academy).

Theatre includes: ensemble dancer in Treason the Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); dancer in West End Does Christmas (Cadogan Hall).

Television includes: dancer in Lil Icons’ Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals (Thames TV); dancer in S4C TAG (S4C Television).

Other work includes: dancer in Juggernaut Dance Video .

Rozz is delighted to join the cast of Wicked UK & Ireland Tour and hopes you all enjoy the show.

Georgia McElwee

Training: Performance Preparation Academy.

Theatre whilst training includes: ‘Charlemagne’ in Pippin; ‘Frau Bergman’ in Spring Awakening and ensemble in Evita (Eve Lyons Theatre).

Theatre includes: ‘Barb’ in Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical (Offie nomination, The Vaults).

Concerts include : Roles We’ll Never Play (Vaudeville).

Georgia is beyond excited to be appearing in the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. She would love to thank her family and friends for their continued support, as well as the Avenue Agents team.

Conor O’Hara

Training : Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre whilst training includes:  ‘John Hinckley Jr’ in  Assassins ; ‘Benny Southstreet’ in  Guys and Dolls ; ‘Monty’ in  Violet;  ‘Finley’ in  Table and  ‘Tevye’ in  Fiddler on the Roof.

Theatre includes: ‘ Charlie Rawlins’ Bedknobs and Broomsticks (World Premiere, UK tour); swing in A Christmas Carol  (RSC) and ensemble in West Side Story (BBC Proms)

Conor is thrilled to be part of this production and would like to thank his family for their infinite love and support.

Shereen Osman

Training: Preston College and Tiffany’s Theatre College.

Theatre includes : Lead dancer in Aladdin (Thameside Theatre).

Other work includes: Performer at Global Village, Dubai; dancer at Primavera Sound, Barcelona; dancer on The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4).

Shereen is thrilled to join the ensemble of the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. Shereen would like to thank her agent Alexander Baker management and her family and friends for their continued support.

Stuart Rouse

Training : Stagestruck Academy and Performers College.

Theatre includes: Strictly Ballroom (UK and Ireland tour); Chess In Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Carousel (Kilworth House);  Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany);  Come What May (UK tour); Remembering The Oscars (UK tour and filmed production); Dick Whittington (Bristol Hippodrome); ‘Roger’ in An Evening of Dirty Dancing (UK tour); Last Night A DJ Saved My Life  (UK tour); Puttin’ On The Ritz (UK and Monaco tour). As Assistant Choreographer: Elf The Musical (Dubai); Jack And The Beanstalk (Hackney Empire) and WhatsOnStage awards.

Television includes : The Royals (E!); Semi-Finalist in Britain’s Got Talent , The X Factor and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV); Talk About You (Mika Music Video) and FA Cup Opening Ceremony.

Christina Shand

Training : Performers College.

Theatre includes : Assistant Choreographer in Kin (King’s Cross); Dance Captain and swing in The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Curve); ensemble in Hairspray (UK tour); ensemble in Club Tropicana (UK tour); swing and ensemble in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); swing in Starlight Express (Germany); ensemble in Copacabana (UK tour); Puttin’ on the Ritz (Monte Carlo); Dance Captain in Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire) and Choreographer in The Roller Boys (Butlins). Television includes: The Olivier Awards 2018 (Royal Albert Hall, ITV); The One Show (BBC); This Morning (ITV); Tomorrow Morning (Musical Film) and Brave New World (Netflix).

Christina would like to thank her family and friends for their endless love and support.

Adam Stickler

Swing, The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond U/S

Training: University of Chichester.

Theatre whilst training includes: ‘Gomez Addams’ in The Addams Family ; ‘Henry Jekyll’ in Jekyll & Hyde ‘ and ‘Quasimodo’ in Notre-Dame de Paris.

Theatre includes: ‘Knuckles’ in The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair (BEAM2023/Oxford Playhouse); ‘John the Carpenter’ in Crooked Spire (Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield) and ‘Prince Charming’ in Cinderella (Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Annes).

Other work includes : ‘Mr Teasley/Stoker’ in The Stationmaster (Studio Cast Recording).

Frazer Woolcott

Theatre whilst training includes:  ‘Pirelli’ in Sweeney Todd and ensemble in The Beautiful Game (Arts Educational).

Other work includes:   The Other Songs and Dr Zhivago – In Concert (London Palladium) and The Oliver Awards and Let’s Face The Music (Royal Albert Hall).

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McGowan keeps the magical humbug role fresh by gauging it against the varying personalities of his co-stars.

“I try to adjust to who’s playing Elphaba,” said McGowan, who is with the “Wicked” tour that’s coming back to The Bushnell for a three-week run from April 24 through May 12. “That’s one of the reasons I haven’t gotten bored all these years. Elphaba is one of the great roles in history and one of the trickiest.”

For most of the Hartford run, Elphaba will be played by Olivia Valli, last seen at The Bushnell in the first national tour of the musical “Pretty Woman.”

“With her, I’m really focusing on the ‘fatherly’ thing,” McGowan said. “I try to be as fatherly as possible. Although the Wizard is this man behind the curtain who’s not so nice, he’s also new to this and just working it out. I try to keep that in mind.”

“Wicked” is a prequel of sorts to “The Wizard of Oz,” chronicling the school days of the Wicked Witch of the West (aka Elphaba) and Glinda the Good (currently played by Celia Hottenstein). The musical is based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, the first in his series of books giving an alternate take on the Oz characters created in the early 1900s by L. Frank Baum.

The musical, featuring the hit song “Defying Gravity,” has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz , a longtime Ridgefield resident who has had revivals of many of his musicals done at local theaters such as the Goodspeed Opera House (“Rags”) and ACT of CT (“Snapshots,” “Working,” “Godspell”). “Wicked” has a book by Winnie Holzman and was directed by Joe Mantello.

McGowan got into the Yale School of Drama on his third try. His professional career had an auspicious start when he took over the starring role in the Broadway comedy “La Bête,” the critically acclaimed play by David Hirson written entirely in rhyming couplets and iambic pentameter. Hollywood star Ron Silver had the role but left during the first week of performances. The run was short, but it made McGowan’s name.

He returned to Yale to do three shows at the Yale Repertory Theatre shortly after graduating: The George S. Kaufman comedy “The Solid Gold Cadillac” in 1989, “Daylight in Exile” by James D’Entremont for the Rep’s Winterfest series of new works in early 1990 and the Chekhov drama “Ivanov” (starring William Hurt) in the fall of 1990. Elsewhere in Connecticut, he appeared in readings of new plays at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford for five straight years.

Besides his many times with “Wicked,” he’s visited Connecticut during a national tour of another very long-running Broadway show, “Chicago.” McGowan played Amos Hart, the hapless husband whose anthem is “Mr. Cellophane.” Strangely, both Amos Hart and The Wizard are roles that originated on Broadway with Joel Grey.

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The long-awaited movie version of “Wicked,” starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard, will release the first of its two parts this November. Anticipation for the film has created fresh interest in the musical. McGowan remembers a similar thing happening with “Chicago.”

“People kept asking me, ‘Is the movie going to kill the Broadway show?’ It didn’t. It helped it,” McGowan said.

McGowan has played the Wonderful Wizard of Oz on and off for 16 years. The tour coming to Hartford is called the “Munchkinland” tour to distinguish it from other “Wicked” ensembles happening around the world. McGowan was part of the Munchkinland tour when it first began in 2009.

“I’ve done the tour three different times and filled in another time,” he said.

It has taken him all around the country and to Hawaii. He’s also been in the Broadway cast of “Wicked” twice, in the eighth and 10th years of its now 20-year New York run, and is the only American actor to have played the Wizard in London’s West End.

He’s been with the Munchkinland tour this time for four months. Two weeks ago, he marked his 2,300th performance as the Wizard.

He’s been able to take long breaks from “Wicked” over the years. “I’ve done three other Broadway shows and a lot of TV in that time,” he said, including a key role on the first season of “The Good Fight.” He was able to achieve a personal dream last year when he played Falstaff in Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at The Old Globe in San Diego. He was also in the Hallmark Channel movie “One Royal Holiday,” filmed in Connecticut in 2020.

Depending on the age of who recognizes him, he jokes, he’s perhaps known for “Frasier” (playing Kenny Daly on 42 episodes of the sitcom), “Everybody Love Raymond (17 episodes as Bernie Gruenfelder) and the Ben Stiller-starring 1995 Disney comedy “Heavyweights.”

While “Wicked” is in Hartford, the Munchkinland tour will make numerous changes in its cast. Several of the lead roles will have different actors playing them starting May 7, the last week of performances at The Bushnell. From that point, Lauren Samuels will replace Valli Elphaba, Austen Danielle Bohmer (who was an ensemble member in “Bye Bye Birdie” at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2016) will be the new Glinda and Aymee Garcia will play Madame Morrible (taking over from Kathy Fitzgerald). McGowan will pass his Wizard hat to Blake Hammond, whom Bushnell audiences have seen previously in national tours of “Something Rotten,” “The Addams Family” and “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.”

“This is a top-shelf tour,” McGowan said. “They always find these incredible young actresses. They change the principals because they like to keep it fresh. The assistant director comes out to see it at every other city. They’ve kept this show really sharp.”

“Wicked” runs April 24 through May 12 at The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 1 and 6:30 p.m. $54-$213. bushnell.org .

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Wicked Movie: Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and Everything You Need to Know

Ready for one of the most iconic villain origin stories to hit the big screen? The Wicked movie is officially on the way.

The Tony-winning Broadway musical — a Wizard of Oz prequel ⁠based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — is finally heading to theaters next holiday season. Wicked is being adapted for not one, but two major motion pictures under Universal, and more and more confirmed details about the films are slowly trickling in.

Wicked first debuted on Broadway in 2003, where Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel originated the roles of Glinda and Elphaba. The interconnected story of the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West takes place long before Dorothy drops into the wonderful land of Oz. In fact, the prequel details the unlikely friendship between the two then-aspiring witches in their youth before they became enemies, changing the fate of their lives, and Oz, for good.

In case you haven’t heard by now, mega popstar Ariana Grande and Tony-winner Cynthia Erivo will lead the upcoming films as witches Glinda and Elphaba, respectively, and will be directed by Jon M. Chu of Crazy Rich Asians and In The Heights fame.

So many developments have occurred since the Wicked movie musical adaptation was first announced, so we've gathered everything you need to know into one guide: from the buzzy cast to adaptation differences to the (multiple) release date changes to the special Super Bowl 2024 sneak peek at the film. Pro tip: Click an arrowed topic below to head straight there.

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Are there trailers and first-look photos for the Wicked movies?

The first Wicked trailer arrived via prime Super Bowl 2024 placement on February 11, 2024. The minute-long trailer reveals a tantalizing first look at what the movie will feel and sound like, featuring high-flying colorful scenery and snippets of ambitious scenes, all set to “Defying Gravity.”

"Don't be afraid," Ariana Grande's Glinda says to Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba with tears in her eyes. “I'm not afraid. It's the wizard who should be afraid of me," Elphaba replies confidently.

Chu, Grande, and Erivo shared first-look photos from Wicked during production back in April 2023, posting never-before-seen images of the two witches on social media. Chu captioned his post, “You weren’t told the whole story. What happens when you veer off the Yellow Brick Road? FIRST LOOK of the #WickedMovie… currently in production in Oz. 🌪️🫧🧹@WickedMovie @UniversalPics #2024.”

Almost a whole year later, on March 20, 2024, Vanity Fair finally released a proper first look at the movie with a series of exclusive pictures. In the shots, the Wicked actors pose in character on various sets of the movie. The first pic shows Grande as Glinda and Erivo as Elphaba inside their shared room, the former surrounded by pink trinkets and the latter posing with books and plants galore.

The second shot is a portrait of Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum as Madame Morrible and the Wizard, respectively. We also get a peek at Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero mounting a black horse, as well as Marissa Bode as Nessarose, a (slightly orange?) Ethan Slater as Boq, Bowen Yang as Pfannee, and Bronwyn James as ShenShen in their Shiz University uniforms. Vanity Fair also released solo shots of Grande as Glinda The Good Witch, crown and starburst scepter included, in an all-pink gown with silver embroidery, a change from the character's traditional baby blue ensemble.

Erivo's solo shot is more faithful to the original musical and sees her fully turned into the Wicked Witch of the West with her iconic all-black 'fit — sharp hat included. (“Defying Gravity" hive, rise!)

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When are the Wicked movies coming out?

Between calendar shifts and COVID-19-related production delays, the release of the first Wicked movie has moved around quite a bit. A few months before its 2019 premiere, Universal announced that the movie had been pushed to December 22, 2021, though the pandemic set that date back, too. The next date was intended to be December 25, 2024, for Wicked: Part 1 and December 25, 2025, for Part 2.

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However, both dates were moved up during the spring and summer of 2023. Now, according to Deadline , the first film is officially slated to theatrically release on November 27, 2024, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, with the second installment set to release almost exactly one year later on November 26, 2025.

What are the Wicked movies about?

Like Gregory Maguire’s book, the premise of the Wicked movies follow Glinda and Elphaba as students at Shiz University, where they, despite their differences, navigate friendship, magical training, and even romance, all while discovering their own identities. However, the alternate look at the world of Oz takes a turn when Elphaba is wrongfully deemed the "wicked" witch. The films are expected to chronicle how she became the villain we know her to be and explore her connections with other beloved Oz characters.

Who is in the cast of the Wicked movies?

As previously mentioned, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star as leads Glinda and Elphaba, the blonde-haired and green-skinned witches who anchor the movie musical extravaganza. During an appearance on Amazon Music's Zach Sang Show on February 26, 2024, Grande said she has “never wanted something as badly” as she wanted the role of Glinda, “hunting” producer Marc Platt for the past ten years.

“Since I was 20, I was like, ‘Hey, I don't know when this is happening, but when it's happening, may I please at least just audition?’" recalled Grande. "That's all I wanted, was an audition. I've never wanted anything more.”

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Grande revealed that “prepping for the auditions [took] six months," involving rigorous “voice lessons every day [and] acting lessons every day." “I trained every single day to prove to [ Wicked producers] that I could handle taking on this other person," Grande explained to Sang. "I had to completely erase popstar Ari, the person they know so well, because it’s harder to believe someone as someone else because they’re so branded as one thing. I had to really go all the way to strip that down.”

“I learned so much from Glinda,” Grande continued, calling the day she got the part “the best day of my life.” “I kind of healed a lot of parts of myself alongside and through her. And it actually helped me heal a lot of my own personal, weird stuff that I had with my relationship with music and to being an artist.”

Grande and Erivo announced their casting news in respective Instagram posts on November 4, 2021. Wicked alum Chenoweth gave the two stars her seal of approval via another IG post , which included a screenshot of one of Grande’s 2011 tweets where she called Glinda her “#dreamrole.”

Chenoweth wrote: “I’m not sure if I’ve ever been this proud. From the very first day I met you (swipe to see!!), you were destined for this role. Congratulations @arianagrande! The best Glinda you will be with @cynthiaerivo by your side 💗💚 I love you!! 🧚‍♀️👑🪄 @wickedmovie @wicked_musical #wicked.”

Chenoweth’s former costar, Menzel, echoed similar sentiments when she commented on Grande and Erivo’s casting news on X as well. “Congrats to two amazing women,” Menzel wrote. “May it change your lives for the better forever and ever as it has for us. So much love.”

Joining Erivo and Grande in the Wicked movie cast are Bridgerton breakout star Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, the witches’ love interest; Everything Everywhere All At Once star Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, the headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University; Broadway veteran Ethan Slater ( also Grande’s rumored boyfriend ) as Boq, the romantic interest of Elphaba’s younger sister, Nessarose; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.

Related: Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater: A Complete Timeline of Events

Newcomer Marissa Bode will make her feature debut as Nessarose. Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang and Lockwood & Co. actor Bronwyn James also join the roster as Pfannee and ShenShen, respectively, Elphaba and Glinda’s classmates. Additional Wicked casting includes The Greatest Showman star Keala Settle as Miss Coddle, Hot Fuzz actor Colin Michael Carmichael as Professor Nikidik, and Aaron Teoh as Avaric.

Have the Wicked movies finished filming?

On December 7, 2022, Grande, Erivo, and Chu confirmed filming on the movie adaptations had begun via several Instagram Stories posts. In one post, the director shared a Wicked -themed drawing from his daughter “to commemorate the first day of shooting.”

Production temporarily shut down amid the SAG-AFTRA strike this past July. At the time, Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz confirmed to Variety that there were only 10 days left to complete filming parts one and two. Chu also shared an update during the strike, assuring fans that the “release date shouldn't be affected” on X: “Not done yet. Just paused until the strike is over and we can finish the last pieces of the movie. We were only a few days away from being done so we were SO close. It’s been very painful to put a halt to it all but we will be back! And we will finish properly strong when the time is right."

And time was eventually right: Ariana Grande herself announced she had wrapped filming for both of the Wicked movies with a cryptic post on January 25, 2023. “Like a handprint on my heart,” the star captioned a post on Instagram in reference to the song “For Good.” The post showed the silhouette of Grande as Glinda on set.

Resharing Grande's post to his stories, director Jon M. Chu wrote: “Will never forget my year with our Galinda. Can't wait for you to meet her. Thank you Ariana Grande for pouring your heart into Oz.” In another story, Chu tagged Cynthia Erivo, adding: “One more day left. Cynthia Erivo, are you ready?” Erivo replied: “As ready as I'll ever be!! Let's goooooo!” As of January 26, 2024, filming on both Wicked movies have wrapped.

When were the Wicked movies first announced?

The initial news of Universal’s Wicked movie adaptation broke in 2016, with its original theatrical release set for December 20, 2019. Evidently, there have since been delays that pushed the film to its current 2024 date. But on April 26, 2022, Chu shared news that clarified the reason behind the long wait.

“As we prepared the production over the last year, it became impossible to wrestle the story of Wicked into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” he wrote in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter).

“As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years. We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two! With more space, we can tell the story of Wicked as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys for these beloved characters.” Chu's two-part announcement delighted some fans while downright annoying others .

On February 11, 2024, the day the first trailer dropped, Wicked producer Marc Platt defended the decision to split up the movies to Vanity Fair . “We didn’t want to end up making one four-hour movie and then cutting out songs. We want to satisfy the fans of the musical,” said Platt. “Film allows you to create a place and a time — a university like Shiz, an extraordinary Emerald City governor’s mansion. There’s so much more to explore.”

How will the Wicked movie differ from the Broadway musical?

As mentioned, the Wicked movies will similarly follow the Broadway musical’s plot, though star Cynthia Erivo previously teased that some parts will take a slight departure from the original material. “I think it's going to be unlike anything you've ever seen before,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2022. “I think we're going to enjoy the magic of it. We're going to try and put our own spin on what we know already and show you a story about two women [who] are sisters.”

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It also remains to be seen exactly where in the plot the coming-of-age tale will be split into two, but given Chu’s announcement, a two-parter will ensure a deeper dive into the story with some surprises along the way.

Will there be new music in the Wicked movies?

According to composer Schwartz, the upcoming Wicked movies will, indeed, include new musical material. Back in 2016, while speaking at a Behind the Music panel during Comic-Con, he predicted that there would “probably four new songs in the movie." At the time, Playbill reported that three of the songs would be newly written, while one was cut from the original Broadway production.

Be that as it may, on December 6, 2023, Schwartz shared an updated count of the new music with The Messenger : two brand-new songs, written exclusively for the film adaptations, will be featured in Wicked: Part 2 .

“There are some expansions of stuff in the first movie. The point being, the new songs were written because of the demand of the story, not, 'Oh, let's write a new song and stick it in just because,'” said Schwartz. "The storytelling required it, and therefore they were created — the intention was that they were organic and not imposed on the movie."

“It's been very important to us to make sure that it is the show, that it is the story that the fans love and that they're coming to expect and not disappoint them,” he continued. “And at the same time, [it was also important to] be able to expand the story to make use of what the language of film and the technology of film allows you to do. As we talked about the story we wanted to tell, it was impossible really to get into one movie unless the movie were four hours long. And so the decision was made to make two movies. And consequently, there's new stuff that I think the fans will enjoy.”

On March 21, 2024, director Jon M. Chu revealed to Vanity Fair that with both the new and old music, the vocals were recorded live — a stunning feat considering a few of the musical numbers require stunts with harnesses and jumps. According to Erivo, Grande even sang live while “jumping on a chandelier over my head.” “These are live vocals,” Chu confirmed to VF . “When we were shooting it, those girls were like, ‘F*ck the pre-records. We’re going live.’”

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