Photo Coverage: WICKED's First Night at TPAC

Wicked opened its run at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center Wednesday with a capacity crowd enjoying the performance by the Second National Touring Company in Andrew Jackson Hall. Opening night also featured the inaugural Nashville.BroadwayWorld.com First Night Theatre Event, with some 25 theatre devotees attending the show, with cocktails and hors d'oevres before curtain and a dessert/champagne reception afterward.

With a cast led by Marcie Dodd as Elphaba, HeleNe Yorke as Galinda, Marilyn Caskey as Madame Morrible, Tom McGowan as The Wizard, David de Vries as Doctor Dillamond, Colin Donnell as Fiyero, Ted Ely as Boq and Kristine Reese as Nessarose, the company plays TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall through September 20. For further information, visit the TPAC website at www.tpac.org or call the box office at (615) 782-4040.