The hit musical
WICKED, at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, has dominated the Whatsonstage.com
The hit musical
WICKED, at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, has dominated the Whatsonstage.com
Theatregoers’ Choice Awards 2007, winning 4 awards:
Best New Musical,
Best Set Design
(Eugene Lee),
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Miriam Margolyes) and
Best Actress in a
Musical (Idina Menzel)
Over 12,000 members of the theatregoing public cast their online votes with
WICKED winning all of its nominated categories. The musical averaged over 51% of the total votes cast
in its nominated categories and also won more awards than any other production.
“On behalf of my colleagues Marc Platt and David Stone and everyone at Universal, I’d like to thank all
the theatregoers who voted for
Wicked and to offer my personal congratulations to Stephen Schwartz,
Winnie Holzman and our superbly talented London cast. It is very exciting that
Wicked has been
honoured by the theatregoing public whose support of, and reaction to, the show has been so incredible
from the outset. We are thrilled to have won four Theatregoer’s Choice Awards and particularly
delighted to have been named ‘Best New Musical’ by such an overwhelming percentage of the vote.”
Michael McCabe, Executive Producer
Whatsonstage.com is the UK''s biggest performing arts website and this year celebrates its 10th
birthday. The Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers'' Choice Awards are now in their fifth year.
WICKED has already been seen by over a quarter of a million theatregoers since its first public
performance on 7 September 2006, grossing over £10 million at the Box Office and twice breaking all-
time records for the West End''s highest weekly gross. Booking has recently been extended until
Saturday 29 March 2008.
Based on Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed novel, the spellbinding
WICKED tells the captivating untold
story of an extraordinary friendship between two girls: the blond and popular Glinda and the
misunderstood green girl, Elphaba, whose destiny is to become the Wicked Witch of the West.
WICKED currently stars: Kerry Ellis as Elphaba, Helen Dallimore as Glinda, Adam Garcia as Fiyero,
Miriam Margolyes as Madame Morrible, Nigel Planer as The Wizard, Martin Ball as Doctor
Dillamond,James Gillan as Boq and Katie Rowley Jones as Nessarose. From Monday 2 April the
role ofMadame Morrible will be played by Susie Blake