The company of the first North American tour of WICKED welcomes Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda on Tuesday, April 19 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Cooper's NY credits include: Letter From Algeria (Abingdon Theatre), BUNKED! A New Musical (
Lucille Lortel Theatre/Fringe Encore Series). Other roles include Geraldine Barclay in What the Butler Saw (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre), and Little Red Ridinghood in Into the Woods (CMU). Film credits include Smart People and Homecoming.
Cooper joins a cast that includes
Jackie Burns as Elphaba,
Randy Danson as Madame Morrible and
Mark Jacoby as the Wizard.
The company also features
Justin Brill (Boq),
Stefanie Brown (Nessarose),
Colin Hanlon (Fiyero),
Paul Slade Smith (Dr. Dillamond), and
Mariand Torres (Standby for Elphaba) with
Lauren Boyd,
Rick Desloge,
Emily Ferranti,
Melanie Field,
Luis Augusto Figueroa,
Dominic Giudici,
Napoleon W. Gladney, Brenda Hamilton,
Spencer Jones,
Renee Lawless-Orsini,
Allison Leo,
Philip Dean Lightstone,
Marissa Lupp,
Corey Mach,
Yanira Marin,
Sterling Masters,
Kevin McMahon,
Christopher Russo,
Adam Sanford, Adea Michelle Sessoms,
Carla Stickler,
Brandon Tyler,
Jessica Walker,
Bud Weber and
Lauren Ashley Zakrin.
The Ft. Lauderdale engagement of WICKED is currently running through April 24 at the Broward Center. Good seats are still available. Tickets can be purchased by calling (954) 462-0222. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Broward Center's ticket office or online at
www.browardcenter.org.
WICKED, with music and lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, 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.
Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
WICKED features set design by Tony Award winning
Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony winner
Susan Hilferty (Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony nominee
Kenneth Posner (Tony Award winner for The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) and sound design by
Tony Meola (The Lion King).
Stephen Oremus is the show's music director. Orchestrations are by
William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by
James Lynn Abbott.
WICKED has "cast quite a spell" (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few.
Called "a cultural phenomenon" by Variety and named "the defining musical of the decade" by The New York Times, WICKED continues to thrill audiences around the world. There are currently seven productions of WICKED worldwide, including two North American tours, a Broadway production, London production, a Japanese-language production, a German-language production and Australian production. A Dutch-language production of WICKED will open in 2011.
Grammy Award-Winning Cast recording available on Decca Broadway. For more information about WICKED log on to www.wickedthemusical.com.
