The latest cast at the Apollo Victoria Theatre features Alexia Khadime as Elphaba and Lucy St. Louis as Glinda, plus there are an extra 400,000 tickets available which takes bookings up until Sunday 2nd June 2024. Groups of ten or more qualify for discounted tickets to certain performances.  

Alexia Khadime is returning to the role she played back in 2008 and again in 2009/10. Among her other previous roles are Nala in Disney’s The Lion King and Eponine in Les Misérables. 

She is joined by Lucy St. Louis who performed as Christine Daae in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera as well as The Book of Mormon and Beautiful: The Carol King Musical. 

Also announced for roles in the London production are Caitlin Anderson as Nessarose and Joe Thompson-Oubari as Boq.

Michael McCabe, executive producer of Wicked in the UK, said: “We’re very proud to release these first images of our incredible new London principal cast.

“We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our casting director, Jim Arnold, for his tireless commitment to seeking out exceptional talent, and for his assistance and guidance in assembling this extraordinary company.”

While continuing its West End run, Wicked will open a UK & Ireland Tour at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 7th December 2023, and then travel to Bristol Hippodrome, Birmingham Hippodrome, Bradford Alhambra Theatre, Southampton Mayflower Theatre, Liverpool Empire, Dublin Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Sunderland Empire, Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre and Manchester Palace Theatre. 

Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s musical is based on the 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.