WICKED UK Beats Credit Crunch With Grosses Increase

The hit musical WICKED, now in its third year at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, has grossed almost £28 million in 2008, £1.2 million up on 2007. The musical has taken over £65 million at the Box Office since opening in September 2006.

Executive Producer Michael McCabe said: "We will end 2008 4% up on 2007 having experienced our highest grossing year to date. It is remarkable enough to see business building year-on-year but in these challenging financial times it seems like a miracle. We are very proud of the achievement and hugely grateful to all the theatregoers who continue to make this show such an enormous popular success."

Acknowledged as ‘the West End's most successful musical' (The Independent on Sunday), WICKED has already been seen by over 1.7 million people and played over 900 performances.

WICKED stars: Kerry Ellis as Elphaba, Dianne Pilkington as Glinda, Oliver Tompsett as Fiyero, harriet thorpe as Madame Morrible, Desmond Barrit as The Wizard, Caroline Keiff as Nessarose, Jeremy Legat as Boq and Andy Mace as Doctor Dillamond.

Cast subject to change from Monday 11 May 2009.

Alexia Khadime returns to play Elphaba from Monday 11 May 2009.

Official UK website: WickedTheMusical.co.uk ">www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk

WICKED proudly supports Bliss, the special care baby charity www.bliss.org.uk and theAnti-Bullying Alliance www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk

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', the award-winning WICKED tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz and how one came to be called ‘good' and the other ‘wicked'...

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Performance Times:
Monday-Saturday 7.30pm
Matinees Wednesday & Saturday 2.30pm
Running time: 2 hours and 50 minutes including a 20 minute interval.

Extra Christmas matinees:
Monday 22 December at 2.30pm
Tuesday 23 December at 2.30pm
Tuesday 30 December at 2.30pm

Students: Best available seats £25 from 10.00am at Monday-Friday 7.30pm and Wednesday & Saturday 2.30pm at the Box Office with student ID. Subject to availability. One ticket per ID.

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