THRILLIFYING NEWS: 3 time Tony nominated performer Kevin Chamberlin (Broadway’s Disaster – On Broadway, Seussical The Musical, The Addams Family Musical) is set to join the Broadway company of the Award winning Blockbuster WICKED The Musical later this month.
Beginning May 22nd, 2018 at the Gershwin Theatre, Chamberlin will take over the role of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
Current Broadway “Wizard” Fred Applegate will take his final bow on May 20th, 2018.
BREAKING NEWS: The most THRILLIFYING Broadway Blockbuster of all time that is WICKED The Musical is about to celebrate another historical Broadway milestone this week.
Tomorrow night, February 9th, 2018, the legendary Stephen Schwartz musical will play it’s 5,960th performance at the Gershwin Theatre surpassing the original production of OH CALCUTTA as the 7th Longest Running Show in Broadway History!!
WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER for this show as it continues to sell out every night and help people feel like we HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR GOOD.
THRILLIFYING NEWS: There’s some new SHIZ faculty in Oz. Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating (Broadway’s The Boy from Oz, Hairspray, Spider-Man On Broadway, and last seen in It’s Only A Play) and Obie Award winner Martin Moran (Broadway’s Titanic, Bells Are Ringing, Cabaret the Musical, Spamalot) are set to join the Broadway company of WICKED The Musical later this month.
Both actors are no strangers to the world of WICKED after previously appearing on the National Tour. Keating will replace Tony Award winner Rondi Reed in the role of the show’s mischievous antagonist “Madame Morrible” and Moran will take over from Chad Jennings as the show’s most beloved, friendly, and educated teaching goat “Dr. Dillamond”.
Keating and Moran are scheduled to begin performances on January 30th, 2018 at the Gershwin Theatre.
Reed and Jennings will play their final performances January 28th, 2018.
Beginning Tuesday, January 30th, the Broadway blockbuster WICKED will welcome, to the Gershwin Theatre, Tony Award nominee ISABEL KEATING as Madame Morrible and Obie Award winner Martin Moran as Doctor Dillamond.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Earlier this month, WICKED The Musical veterans Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway’s original “Glinda”) and acclaimed recording artist Shoshana Bean (Broadway’s first replacement “Elphaba”) took center stage at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to perform a breathtaking rendition of the show’s beloved 11:00 number FOR GOOD at the Trevor Live event.
The Trevor Live event is a benefit show every year to raise money for The Trevor Project (which prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth from committing sucide).
How THRILLIFYING this performance from these 2 former Witches of Oz?
Kristin Chenoweth and Shoshana Bean performing “For Good” from the hit musical “Wicked” live at TrevorLIVE LA 2017. Held on December 3, 2017 at the Beverly H…
Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford went back into the world of WICKED The Musical with the latest episode of OUT OF OZ sessions performing a new version of the song WONDERFUL (initially performed by “The Wizard”).
Ashford has a long history with the long running Stephen Schwartz musical. In 2005 following graduating from Marymount Manhattan College, she went straight into the show’s first National Tour where she appeared in the Ensemble and understudied “Glinda” for a whole year before landing the role of “Margot” in Legally Blonde on Broadway that very next year. Following departing LEGALLY BLONDE in 2007, Ashord returned to WICKED a few months later and this time became “Glinda” fulltime. She stayed with the Broadway company for 9 months before transferring to the show’s sit-down Chicago production where she stayed for the remainder of it’s run through it’s 2009 closing.
How amazing is Annaleigh?
In this installment of Out Of Oz, Annaleigh Ashford performs WICKED’s “Wonderful.” For information about WICKED, visit us at: http://www.wickedthemusical.com…
