After announcing return engagements to Toronto and Denver, the smash touring production ofWicked will play Houston and Dallas for second stints in 2007.
The musical will return to Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from March 28th through April 15th,
2007, and Dallas' Music Hall at Fair Park from April 18th through May 6th, 2007. The new engagements will accompany return visits to Toronto's Canon Theatre from October 7th through November 19th, 2006, and Denver's Buell Theatre from May 16th through June 3rd, 2007.
The tour, which stars Stephanie J. Block as the determined Elphaba and Kendra Kassebaum as the ditzy Glinda, will next be seen at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from December 21st through January 15th, 2006.
The show, which has filled as many seats on its tour as it has in its other productions on Broadway and in Chicago, also features David Garrison (The Wizard), Derrick Williams (Fiyero), Carol Kane
(Madame Morrible), Jenna Leigh Green (Nessarose), Logan Lipton (Boq)
and Timothy Britten Parker (Doctor Dillamond).While Wicked, has
been a smash hit at the Gershwin Theatre (222 W. 51st St.) for almost
two years, the Chicago production at the Ford Center for the Performing
Arts' Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.) also plays to very full
houses; the sit-down show received raves upon opening on July 13th. The
Broadway production currently boasts Shoshana Bean (Eden Espinosa replaces her on January 10th) and Megan Hilty as
Elphaba and Glinda, while Ana Gasteyer and Kate Reinders play the
respective green and pink witches in Chicago; they will be replaced by Kristy Cates and Stacie Morgain Lewis on January 24th. The lavish musical
biography of the misunderstood title witch of the West features music
and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, a book by Winnie Holtzman, direction by
Joe Mantello and choreography by Wayne Cilento. Wicked is based on Gregory Maguire's novel.