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Wicked welcomes 12 millionth visitor to London's Apollo Victoria

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January 11, 2024

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Wicked London has welcomed its 12 millionth visitor to London's Apollo Victoria Theatre.

The cast and. crew of Wicked London. Photo: Troy David Johnston On Tuesday 9 January 2024, Wicked the musical London welcomed its 12 millionth visitor to the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Ultan Keena (pictured wearing a green jumper) and guests Samuel Spencer and Georgina Woodward attended the performance, the show's 6639th.

Wicked opened in London in 2006 and is the 11th longest-running theatre productions in West End Theatre.

Wicked 12 Millionth visitor. Photo: Troy David Johnston BOOK WICKED WEST END TICKETS The London production currently stars 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), Steven Pinder (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, Jemima Loddy, Joshua Lovell, Rory Maguire, 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. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s celebrated stage musical is based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire and imagines a beguiling backstory and future possibilities to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, revealing the decisions and events that shape the destinies of two unlikely university friends on their journey to becoming ‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’. WICKED UK TOUR INFORMATION 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’ andEnchanted’). It is based on the multimillion-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 television series ‘My So-Called Life’). Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento with direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST TO STAY UPDATED

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