Tickets Go On Sale 5/20 For Columbus Run Of WICKED

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2007, the smash-hit musical WICKED will return to the OhioTheatre for five weeks only July 28-August 29. Tickets for the return engagement will go on sale to the public Thursday, May 20.

With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award-winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), WICKED is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony® Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...). It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone.

Based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED is the untold story of the witches of Oz and has earned 26 major awards including a Grammy® and three Tony® Awards.

WICKED comes to the Ohio Theater (39 E. State St.) July 28-August 29 as part of the 2009-10 Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series presented by CAPA and Broadway Across America. Tickets start at $37.50 and can be purchased at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com/wicked. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000. Show times include:

"We are thrilled to have WICKED returning to Columbus," stated CAPA CEO Bill Conner. "The positive economic impact it has on Columbus and the extraordinary quality of the production make it a win-win for this community."

Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One-born with emerald green skin-is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

WICKED has "cast quite a spell" (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Boston to name a few. Called "a cultural phenomenon" by Variety and just named "the defining musical of the decade" by The New York Times, WICKED continues to thrill audiences around the world.

Called "a cultural phenomenon" by Variety and just named "the defining musical of the decade" by The New York Times, WICKED continues to thrill audiences around the world. There are currently eight productions of WICKED worldwide, including two North American tours, a Broadway production, San Francisco production, London production, Japanese-language production, German-language production, and Australian production. A Dutch-language production of WICKED will open in 2011.

WICKED features set design by Tony® Award winner EuGene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony® winner Susan Hilferty (Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony® nominee Kenneth Posner (The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray),and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King). Stephen Oremus is the show's musical director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.

The Grammy Award-winning cast recording is available on Decca Broadway.

For more information about WICKED, please visit www.wickedthemusical.com.

Casting for the forthcoming national tour stop will be announced at a later date.

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