‘WICKED’ EXTENDS BOOKING INTO 2025 – 400,000 new tickets now on sale with booking extended to Sunday 1 June 2025

‘WICKED’ EXTENDS BOOKING INTO 2025

400,000 new tickets now on sale with booking extended

 to Sunday 1 June 2025

Six extra shows added

www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk

WICKED, the West End stage musical phenomenon that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, today releases over 400,000 new tickets, extending public booking to Sunday 1 June 2025. It is the long-running production’s 37th extension.

Performances begin Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm, and Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2.30pm. The following six added shows are also now on sale: Thursday 4 April, Thursday 1 AugustThursday 15 AugustThursday 31 October 2024Thursday 20 February, and Thursday 17 April 2025, all at 2:30pm.  DOORS OPEN 90 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE START OF ALL PERFORMANCES.

One of the most successful musicals of all time” (BBC News), Wicked opened in London in 2006 and is already the 11th longest-running West End production in history. Winner of more than 100 global awards, the production has now been seen by more than 12 million people in London alone.

From Tuesday 12 March 2024,the London production will star Alexia Khadime (Elphaba), Lucy St. Louis (Glinda), Ryan Reid (Fiyero), Sophie-Louise Dann (Madame Morrible), Michael Fenton Stevens (The Wizard), Caitlin Anderson (Nessarose), Graham Kent (Doctor Dillamond), Joe Thompson-Oubari (Boq), Laura Harrison (Standby for Elphaba), Christine Tucker* (Standby for Glinda), Zac Adlam**, Conor Ashman, Jessica AubreyJeremy Batt, Felipe BejaranoAsmara Cammock, Joshua Clemetson, Effie Rae Dyson, Aston Newman HanningtonAimee Hodnett, Kate Leiper, Jemima Loddy, Joshua LovellRory Maguire, PaddyJoe Martin, Darnell Mathew-JamesMillie MayhewAyden MorganRishard-Kyro NelsonAiesha Naomi PeaseJeanie RyanNatalie SpriggsCharlotte Anne SteenJames Titchener, Micaela Todd, Taela Yeomans-Brown, and Jacob Young.  *Maternity cover for Lisa-Anne Wood. **Maternity cover.

Current cast members Mark Curry (The Wizard), Steven Pinder (Doctor Dillamond), Amy Webb (Standby for Elphaba), Yuki AbeKofi Aidoo-AppiahFergus DaleNicola EspallardoDanny FogartyRoss HarmonHarry MillsDaniel Parrott, and Jaydon Vijn all depart on Sunday 10 March 2024.

Wicked is also touring to various cities in England, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland until January 2025. Currently playing at the Birmingham Hippodrome until 7 April 2024, the critically acclaimed production then continues to Bradford Alhambra Theatre; Southampton Mayflower Theatre; Liverpool Empire; Dublin Bord Gáis Energy Theatre; Sunderland Empire; and Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre. The tour will conclude with a 2024/5 Christmas season at the Manchester Palace Theatre, the venue that hosted the tour premiere in September 2013.

Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s celebrated stage musical is based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire and imagines a beguiling backstory and future possibilities to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, revealing the decisions and events that shape the destinies of two unlikely university friends on their journey to becoming ‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’.

Wickedhas music and lyrics by multi-Oscar and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (‘Godspell’, ‘Pippin’, ‘The Prince of Egypt’, Disney’s ‘Pocahontas’, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’and ‘Enchanted’)It is based on the multimillion-copy best-selling novel ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of theWest’ by Gregory Maguire and written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman (creator of the landmark American television series ‘My So-Called Life’). Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento with direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

Wicked is produced by Marc PlattUniversal Stage ProductionsThe Araca GroupJon B. Platt, and David Stone. Executive Producer (UK) Michael McCabe.

Through its ‘For Good’ charitable endeavours and acclaimed Wicked Active Learning cultural and social education programme, the London production of Wicked proudly supports and champions the work of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, the National Literacy Trust, and Theatre Works!, the charity providing theatre tickets to disadvantaged children across the UK.

The Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LG

Official UK website: www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk

Education programme: www.WickedActiveLearning.co.uk

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