UK’s New Stars Beginning May 11

Celebrating 100 performances, Wicked is currently bringing aboard Sam Kelly as The Wizard and Natalie Anderson as Nessarose starting May 11, 2009, as well as welcoming back Alexia Khadime as Elphaba for the UK performance.  Kelly is one of the UKs’s most beloved actor, according to Broadwayworld.com, and has been featured on several television shows. The new contract extenstion has also brought along Dianne Pilkington (Glinda), Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Harret Thorpe (Madame Morrible), Ashleigh Gray (Elphaba standby) and Sarah Earnshaw (Glinda standby). The play opened at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre in September 2006 and has raked in £70 million to a total of 2 million people. The show is running in North American (4 productions), Japan, Germany and Australia. From Monday 11 May 2009, WICKED stars Alexia Khadime (Elphaba), Dianne Pilkington(Glinda), Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Sam Kelly (The Wizard), harriet thorpe (Madame Morrible), Natalie Anderson (Nessarose), Alex Jessop (Boq), David Stoller (Doctor Dillamond), Ashleigh Gray (Standby for Elphaba) and Sarah Earnshaw (Standby for Glinda).  There is bound to be great adventurs no matter where you see this play with your own Wicked tickets today!

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