London Wicked Welcomes New Cast July 16

From Monday 16 July 2007 the record-breaking musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre will star: Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Dianne Pilkington (Glinda), Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Susie Blake (Madame Morrible), Nigel Planer (The Wizard), James Gillan (Boq), Andy Mace (Doctor Dillamond) and Katie Rowley Jones (Nessarose).

The company will be: Gary Amers, Nicola Brazil, Nadine Cox, Aileen Donohoe, Mark Evans, Ashleigh Gray, Aimee Hall, John Hicks, Dougal Irvine, Kady Jo Jackson, Caroline Keiff, Latoya Leijan, Mitchell Mahony, Christopher Mitchell, Adam Murray, Haydn Oakley, Sean Parkins, Michael Pickering, David Stoller, Lindsay Taylor, Hannah Toy, Kerry Washington, Lucie Waugh and Gary Wood. Cassidy Janson will be the Elphaba Standby and Sarah Earnshaw will be the Glinda Standby.

Wicked has now been seen by over 650,000 theatregoers since its first public performance at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre on 7 September 2006, grossing over £23 million at the Box Office and twice setting new West End Box Office records for the highest ever weekly gross. Wicked has grossed over $500,000,000 (half a billion dollars) worldwide.

"Based on Gregory Maguire's best-selling novel, the spellbinding Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an extraordinary friendship between two girls: the blond and popular Glinda and the misunderstood green girl, Elphaba, whose destiny is to become the Wicked Witch of the West," state press notes.

The show is presented in London by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. Executive Producer: Michael McCabe; General Management: Nick Salmon and Nia Janis / Act Productions.

Visit www.wickedthemusical.co.uk for more information.

Photo by Tristram Kenton - Dianne Pilkington and Kerry Ellis