WICKED Offers New Block of Tickets Extending Into April 2010

The smash hit musical WICKED has extended booking, with tickets now on sale over a year in advance until Saturday 3 April 2010.

The award-winning musical opened at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre in September 2006 and celebrated its 1000th performance on Saturday 14 February 2009. Acknowledged as 'the West End's most successful musical' (The Independent on Sunday), WICKED has already been seen by almost two million people and taken in excess of £68 million at the Box Office.

Last week (week ending 21 February 2009), the production played its third highest grossing week of its record-breaking run, taking £828,738 at the Box Office.

Based on Gregory Maguire's best-selling novel that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', WICKED tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz and how one came to be called ‘good' and the other ‘wicked'...

WICKED stars Kerry Ellis as Elphaba, Dianne Pilkington as Glinda, Oliver Tompsett as Fiyero, harriet thorpe as Madame Morrible and Desmond Barrit as The Wizard. Cast subject to change from 11 May 2009. Alexia Khadime returns to play Elphaba from 11 May 2009.

WICKED has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, a book by Winnie Holzman and is directed by Joe Mantello. WICKED is based on the novel, Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire.

In addition to the London production, WICKED is also currently running in North America, Japan, Germany and Australia.

Official UK website: www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk

Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LG Box Office and 24 Hour Credit Card Bookings: Ticketmaster 0844 826 8000

WICKED proudly supports Bliss, the special care baby charity www.bliss.org.uk and the
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