Wicked, the West End and Broadway musical phenomenon that tells the unbelievable untold story of the Witches of Oz, is proud to announce its full new London forged who will start performances at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre on Tuesday 7 March 2023. Leading the corporate might be Alexia Khadime as ‘Elphaba’, returning to the position she beforehand performed to common acclaim, and The Phantom of the Opera star Lucy St. Louis as ‘Glinda’. Caitlin Anderson will make her West End debut as ‘Nessarose’, and present ensemble forged member Joe Thompson-Oubari will take over the position of ‘Boq’.
The full new forged is confirmed as Alexia Khadime (Elphaba), Lucy St. Louis (Glinda), Ryan Reid (Fiyero), Sophie-Louise Dann (Madame Morrible), Mark Curry (The Wizard), Caitlin Anderson (Nessarose), Joe Thompson-Oubari (Boq), Simeon Truby (Doctor Dillamond), Amy Webb (Standby for Elphaba), Lisa-Anne Wood (Standby for Glinda), Yuki Abe, Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Conor Ashman, Jessica Aubrey, Joshua Clemetson, Fergus Dale, Effie Rae Dyson, Nicola Espallardo, Danny Fogarty, Ross Harmon, Kate Leiper, Nick Len, Jemima Loddy, Joshua Lovell, PaddyJoe Martin, Millie Mayhew, Harry Mills, Daniel Parrott, Aiesha Naomi Pease, Jeanie Ryan, Natalie Spriggs, James Titchener, Micaela Todd, Christine Tucker, Jaydon Vijn and Taela Yeomans-Brown.
Current forged members Lucie Jones (Elphaba), Helen Woolf (Glinda), Carina Gillespie (Nessarose), Nicholas McLean (Boq), Meg Astin, Alishia-Marie Blake, Pàje Campbell, Michael Colbourne, Nolan Edwards, Laura Harrison, Amie Hibbert, Lucie Horsfall, Samuel How, Christian Knight, Jasmine Leung, Maggie Lynne, Rhidian Marc, Jessica-Alice McCluskey, Stacey McGuire, Lewis Newton, and Samantha Thomas will all play their ultimate performances on Sunday 5 March 2023.
Alexia Khadime (Elphaba) first performed ‘Elphaba’ to vital acclaim in 2008 and subsequently returned to the position for a second engagement in 2009/10. Alexia’s many different main West End roles have included ‘Nala’ in Disney’s The Lion King; ‘Éponine’ in Les Misérables; ‘Nabulungi’ in The Book of Mormon (WhatsOnStage Award); and, most just lately, ‘Miriam’ in The Prince of Egypt. At the National Theatre, she performed ‘Harmonia’ in Welcome To Thebes, directed by Richard Eyre. Her many tv appearances have included Comin’ Atcha! (CITV); Nick Payne’s Wanderlust (BBC); Splatalot (CBBC) with Dick & Dom; ‘Ellie’ in The Queen’s Nose (CBBC) and Grange Hill. She appeared within the movies Rocketman; Les Misérables and London Road.
Lucy St. Louis (Glinda) is at present starring as ‘Christine Daaé’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. She beforehand starred as ‘Diana Ross’ in Motown The Musical on the Shaftesbury Theatre and as ‘Antonia’ in Man of La Mancha on the London Coliseum. Lucy’s many different London theatre credit embrace her West End debut in Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre)
Caitlin Anderson (Nessarose) will make her West End debut in Wicked. She educated at Scotland’s MGA Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2018.
Joe Thompson-Oubari (Boq) is at present showing within the ensemble forged of Wicked and has performed the position of ‘Boq’ on many events. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in the summertime of 2019, gaining an MA (with Distinction) in Musical Theatre.
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked imagines a beguiling backstory and future prospects to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and divulges the selections and occasions that form the destinies of two unlikely college associates on their journey to turning into Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Wicked has 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, Enchanted and its Disney+ sequel Disenchanted). It is predicated on the multi-million copy best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman (creator of the landmark American tv sequence My So-Called Life). Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento with route by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.