Wicked UK Tour announces full casting

Emily Tierney and Nikki Davis-Jones

Full casting has been announced for the first UK Tour of Wicked for which rehearsals begin on Monday (5th August) in London.

Joining the previously announced Nikki Davis-Jones (Elphaba), Emily Tierney (Glinda), Liam Doyle (Fiyero), Marilyn Cutts (Madame Morrible), Dale Rapley (The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond), Carina Gillespie (Nessarose), George Ure (Boq) and Jemma Alexander (Standby Elphaba) are: Lee Bridgman, Chrissy Brooke, Richard Carson, Harrison Clark, Jeanine Dinger, Tim Edwards, Howard Ellis, Natasha Ferguson, Zoe George, Lia Given, Natalie Green, Charlie Harding, Katie Kerr, Robert Kershaw, Will Knights, Sophie Leigh-Griffin, Candy Marriott, Oliver Metzler, Wendy-Lee Purdy, Julienne Schembri, Grant Thresh, Ed White and Helen Woolf.

Click here to meet the cast.

The UK & Ireland Tour will visit: Manchester Palace Theatre (12 September to 16 November 2013), Dublin Bord Gáis Energy Theatre (27 November 2013 to 18 January 2014); Milton Keynes Theatre (4 February to 8 March 2014); Wales Millennium Centre (12 March to 26 April 2014); Glasgow King’s Theatre (6 May to 31 May 2014); Leeds Grand Theatre (10 June to 5 July 2014) and Birmingham Hippodrome (9 July to 6 September 2014). Tickets are now on sale at all venues. Further cities and dates into 2015 to be announced.

There are at present 6 productions of musical playing concurrently around the world: at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway (where it is now in its 10th Anniversary year), on two North American tours, in Japan, on tour in Australasia and at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. Wicked has already been seen by 36 million people worldwide and grossed $2.9 billion at the Box Office.

Click here to read our interview with Nikki Davis-Jones from January 2013
Official UK & Ireland Tour website: www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk

Photo Credit: Matt Crockett

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