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Wicked West End extends its run into May 2023

Wicked extends its West End run into May 2023
Written by Lewis Wilson

Wicked has extended its West End run!

The musical can now be booked up to a year in advance with half a million new tickets being released. It extends through to 28th May 2023.

Four extra 2022 Christmas shows have also added. They are on Tuesday 20th December, Friday 23rd December, Tuesday 27th December and Friday 30th December 2022.

Cast for Wicked West End

The show currently stars Lucie Jones as Elphaba, Helen Woolf as Glinda and Ryan Reid as Fiyero. Also staring, Sophie-Louise Dann as Madame Morrible, Gary Wilmot as The Wizard and Carina Gillespie as Nessarose. In addition to, Nicholas McLean as Boq, Simeon Truby as Doctor Dillamond, Amy Webb as Standby for Elphaba and Lisa-Anne Wood as Standby for Glinda. More cast include, Yuki Abe, Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Meg Astin and Alishia-Marie Blake. Additionally, Pàje Campbell, Grace Chapman, Michael Colbourne and Fergus Dale. Also including, Nolan Edwards, Nicola Espallardo, Danny Fogarty and Laura Harrison. More cast include, Amie Hibbert, Lucie Horsfall, Samuel How and Christian Knight. In addition to, Nick Len, Jasmine Leung, Rhidian Marc and Paddy Joe Martin. Furthermore, Jessica-Alice McCluskey, Stacey McGuire, Harry Mills and Lewis Newton. Finally, Natalie Spriggs, Samantha Thomas, Joe Thompson-Oubari and James Titchener. Chapman and Thomas are covers for Maggie Lynne and Joanna Sawyer respectively.

Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz and is written by Emmy and Tony Award nominee Winnie Holzman. With musical staging by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento and direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

Captioned performances will be on Thursday 15th September 2022 at 7.30pm and Saturday 18th February 2023 at 2.30pm. Audio described performances are on Saturday 12th November 2022 at 2.30pm and Tuesday 14th March 2023 at 7.30pm. With sign language interpreted performances on Friday 13th May 2022 at 7.30pm, Saturday 22nd October 2022 at 2.30pm and Friday 21st April 2023 at 7.30pm.

Wicked have recently announced that the film version will be released into two parts, first part coming December 2024. Click here to read more about the film.

Click here to book tickets to Wicked West end!

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