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To celebrate the show's ten years on the road and the fifteen ladies that have taken on "Defying Gravity" in the Emerald City cast, we bring you a roundup of all of the Elphabas, from Stephanie J. Block to Jennifer DiNoia!
After 4,160 performances, 520 playing weeks, 124 engagements in 55 different cities, and 10 years to the week after it launched in Toronto in March 2005, the final performance of the First North American tour of Wicked will be Sunday, March 15 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. It has been seen by over 10.3 million people and has grossed a total of $790 million. And, don't worry WICKED fans - the Second National Tour will continue indefinitely - scroll down for the latest dates!
The closing company features Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba), Gina Beck (Glinda), Nick Adams (Fiyero), Etai BenShlomo (Boq), Jenny Florkowski (Nessarose), Tom Flynn (Dr. Dillamond) and Emmy Raver-Lampman (Standby for Elphaba) with Dina Bennett, Lauren Boyd, Kyle Brown, Nirine S. Brown, Rick Desloge, Timothy A. Fitz-Gerald, Dominic Giudici, Brenda Jean Hamilton, Spencer Jones, Sheila Karls, Trevor Ryan Krahl, Rebecca Kritzer, Marina Lazzaretto, Allison Leo, Marissa Lupp, Raymond Joel Matsamura, Jonathan McGill, Kevin McMahon,Shanon Mari Mills, Cassie Okenka, Adam Perry, Christopher Russo, Daniel Switzer and Stephanie Torns.
The Second North American tour of Wicked, which opened in Fort Myers in March 2009, and has been seen by nearly 6 million people and has also broken the house record in every single city in which it has played, will continue to fly into cities across North America indefinitely. Most recently, it played a record-breaking three-week engagement in Atlanta, and will continue to play the following upcoming cities: Miami (March 11-29), Baltimore (April 1-26), Dayton (April 29 - May 17), El Paso (May 20-31), Denver (June 3 - July 5), Seattle (July 8 - August 2), Portland (August 5 - 23) and Tempe (August 26 - October 4).
WICKED, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Disney's Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), is based on the 1995 best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...). Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
Wicked currently has nine productions around the world, in New York, London, Japan, Australasian Tour, South Korea, Latin America, a U.K. Tour, and two concurrent North American National Tours. Since its New York premiere a decade ago, Wicked has grossed over $3.4 billion worldwide and has been seen by over 42 million across the globe. Wicked has been performed in over 100 cities in 13 countries around the world (U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Japan, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, The Philippines, and Mexico) and has thus far been translated into five languages: Japanese, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Korean.
Stephanie J. Block (2005-06)
Kristy Cates (2005)
Eden Espinosa (2005)
Julia Murney (2006)
Shoshana Bean (2006)
Victoria Matlock (2007)
Carmen Cusack (2007-08)
Donna Vivino (2008-10)
Jackie Burns (2010-11)
Mamie Parris (2011-12)
Dee Roscioli (2011, 2012-13)
Nicole Parker (2011-12)
Alison Luff (2013-14)
Emma Hunton (2014-15)
Jennifer DiNoia (2015)
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