Wicked

The highly successful musical, Wicked has teamed up with bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo to launch the Wicked Young Writers’ Award which has been setup to recognise excellence in writing, encourage creativity and help develop writing talent in young people nationwide. The award will be open to entries from young people ages between 5 and 25.
Michael will be joined on the judging panel by the author of Wicked: The Life & Times Of The Wicked Witch of the West which tells the re-imagined stories and characters …

Acclaimed by The Times as Londons “hugely popular musical” Wicked has announced an extension to it’s booking period at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. This ninth extension to the musical’s booking period means that the show will now run until 30th April 2011.
In addition the hit musical has announced extra matinee performances this year on the 18 February, 28 October, 20 December, 22 December, 23 December, 24 December, 28 December, 29 December and 31 December 2010, all at 2.30pm.
Wicked tells the untold and re-imagined story of the beloved characters in …

It has been announced today that Lee Mead, winner of the BBC One search for a Joseph, Any Dream Will Do will take on the role of Fiyero in the West End production of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre from the 10th May 2010.
Lee is currently playing the title role in Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime which is on a UK tour until the 24th April 2010. Following winning Any Dream Will Do, Lee played the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the …

Lastminute.com are for a limited time only offering top price Wicked Tickets (which normaly retail for £60) for only £35 + £2 booking fee, almost half price!
This discounted price applies to top price tickets of Wicked performances at the Apollo Victoria Theatre Monday – Thursday performances until the  February 25th 2010.  The offer excludes performances between February 15th – 18th 2010.
To claim this discount you must book with Lastminute.com before the 18th January 2010.
Wicked is the story which reimagines the charachters of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, showing them all …

The West End production of Wicked this March welcomes Rachel Tucker and Louise Dearman to lead the musical at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
Rachel Tucker replaces Alexia Khadime as the Elphaba, she has most recently been co-presenting The Friday Show with Eamonn Holmes for BBC Northern Ireland.  In the West End she has just finished playing Meat in the Queen and Ben Elton musical, We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre.  Tucker rose to initial fame as part of the popular BBC One search for a Nancy, ‘I’d Do Anything.’
Louise …

Wicked has reported that it has had it’s highest grossing year so far taking an incredible £27,333,991 at the box office up almost  £100,000 compared to last year.
The success of the show this year takes the total UK box office takings for as The Times called it the “hugely popular musical” Wicked to an astonishing £90 million.
UK Executive Producer of Wicked, Michael McCabe commented “The public’s incredible enthusiasm and support for Wicked has swept us along on a huge wave of success since we opened in 2006. To see our …

The hit musical, Wicked which is curretly playing at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre has been named ‘Best Stage Musical Of The Decade’ by International entertainment magazine, Entertainment Weekly in its “Best of the Decade: The 100 Greatest – 2000 – 2009″ entertainment feature which picked the best movies, TV shows, albums, music videos, books fashions and trends of the past 10 years.  Wicked was the only musical chosen.
Wicked tells the untold story of the witches of Oz (both the good and bad) which most of us met when we came …

Wicked stars, Dianne Pilkington and Alexia Khadime have been named the winners of the 2009 ‘Women Of The Future Award’ in the ‘Art and Culture’ category.
The awards which were this year hosted by the BBC London’s Riz Lateef at the Marriot Grosvenor Square on the 12th November 2009 in association with Shell, celebrates and honours outstanding young women who are transforming Britain for the better.
In a join statement, Dianne Pilkington and Alexia Khadime said “We are both incredibly honoured to have been chosen as Women of the Future and, as …

Wicked, the musical which tells the untold story of the witches of Oz has been named “Best Family Fun” at the BT Visit London “People’s Choice Awards” 2009.
The annual awards gives the general public the opportunity to vote for their favourite things to see and do around the capital.  Other nominees in the “Best Family Fun” category sponsored by The Evening Standard included ZSL London Zoo, The London Eye and The Science Museum.
In other Wicked news, over the Halloween period this year Wicked organised the Wicked Cackle at Westfield London …

Wicked – The Hit Musical at the Apollo Victoria Theatre

Wicked is the magical story of how two unlikely friends become so and how they end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, characters which feature in Frank L. Baum’s classic and much loved story – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Galinda / Glinda and Elphaba meet at Schiz University located in the mythical Land of Oz (nothing to do with Australia).
Elphaba is born the colour of emerald green with a very fiesty personality. Galinda on …