The London production of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre has hit a major milestone this week.
The 11 millionth theatregoer has attended the show, with Olivia Gosling and her father, Steve, at the matinee performance yesterday, 31 August 2022. They were there to celebrate Olivia’s 15th Birthday.
Olivia and Steve were invited on stage at the end of the show to celebrate!
The current Wicked cast includes Lucie Jones (Elphaba), Helen Woolf (Glinda), Ryan Reid (Fiyero), Sophie-Louise Dann (Madame Morrible), Gary Wilmot* (The Wizard), Carina Gillespie (Nessarose), Nicholas McLean (Boq), Simeon Truby (Doctor Dillamond), Amy Webb (Standby for Elphaba), Lisa-Anne Wood (Standby for Glinda), Yuki Abe, Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Meg Astin, Alishia-Marie Blake, Pàje Campbell, Michael Colbourne, Fergus Dale, Nolan Edwards, Nicola Espallardo, Danny Fogarty, Laura Harrison, Amie Hibbert, Lucie Horsfall, Samuel How, Christian Knight, Nick Len, Jasmine Leung, Maggie Lynne, Rhidian Marc, PaddyJoe Martin, Jessica-Alice McCluskey, Stacey McGuire, Harry Mills, Lewis Newton, Natalie Spriggs, Samantha Thomas, Joe Thompson-Oubari and James Titchener.
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked imagines a Wizard of Oz backstory centred on two unlikely university friends on their journey to becoming Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, The Prince of Egypt, Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Enchanted and its forthcoming sequel Disenchanted), is written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life), with musical staging by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento, and direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.
Wicked has won over 100 major awards, including three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy Award and ten theatregoer voted WhatsOnStage Awards (including three for ‘Best West End Show’). Wicked is also the 7th longest-running show in West End history based on shows that are currently playing in London.
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