The London production of the international hit musical Wicked, which tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, will welcome a host of new cast members to the Apollo Victoria Theatre beginning March 25.
The 2025-2026 cast will be led by Emma Kingston (Heathers: The Musical) as Elphaba opposite Zizi Strallen (Mary Poppins) as Glinda.
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The duo will be joined by Carl Man (& Juliet) as Fiyero, Sarah Ingram (Legally Blonde: The Musical) as Madame Morrible, Michael Matus (Singin’ in the Rain) as The Wizard, Hannah Qureshi (Hamilton) as Nessarose, David McKechnie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge) as Doctor Dillamond, and Ross Carpenter (Book of Mormon) as Boq. Laura Emmitt (Frozen: The Musical) will be the Alternate Elphaba and Lydia Gerrard (The Phantom of The Opera tour) the Standby for Glinda.
The company will be completed by Iroy Abesamis, Zac Adlam, Steph Asamoah, Meg Astin, Rebecca Bowden, Shaun Chambers, Erin Gisele Chapman, Grace Durkin, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Aaron Elijah, Aimee Hodnett, Nat Ingham, Holly Lawrence, Jemima Loddy, Josh Lovell, Rory Maguire, PaddyJoe Martin, JoJo Meredith, Ayden Morgan, Rina Punwani, Abbie Quinnen, Jemma Revell, Jeanie Ryan, Charlotte Anne Steen, Chris Tarsey, Hannah Taylor, James Titchener, and Jacob Young.
The current company, led by Alexia Khadime as Elphaba and Lucy St. Louis as Glinda, will play their final performances March 23.
Wicked became 10th longest-running production in West End history when it played its 6,762nd performance at the Apollo Victoria Theatre April 24.
With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, the musical is based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
The Joe Mantello-helmed production features musical staging by Wayne Cilento, scenic design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Tony Meola, projections by Elaine J. McCarthy, wig and hair design by Tom Watson, music supervision and arrangements by Stephen Oremus, orchestrations by William David Brohn, and dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
The hit Broadway production continues at the Gershwin Theatre while the first half of the two-part film adaptation is breaking box-office records worldwide.
Wicked is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone. McCabe is the executive producer in the U.K.
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