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Leading Australian theatre producer John Frost is 'thrillified' to announce that the role of the Wizard in the 2014 Melbourne and Sydney seasons of the Broadway musical is Australian musical theatre icon Reg Livermore.

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While emerald green confetti were slowly falling from midair and soap bubbles floated right near the stage door at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, photographer Jude Ng and videographer JM Ballaran, captured on their cameras on closing night, Sunday, March 9, a large crowd of Filipino fans of WICKED singing in unison one of most famous duets from the musical, 'For Good.' For the fans, it was their 'musical' way of showing how grateful they were for the Australasian touring cast, led by Jemma Rix (Elphaba), Suzie Mathers (Glinda), Steve Danielsen (Fiyero), Emily Cascarino (Nessarose), and Edward Grey (Boq), who starred in the sensational seven-week run of WICKED in Manila.

Leading Australian theatre producer John Frost is 'thrillified' to announce that the role of the Wizard in the 2014 Melbourne and Sydney seasons of the Broadway musical is Australian musical theatre icon Reg Livermore.

Due to extraordinary demand, new tickets will be released today for the Melbourne season of the award-winning musical theatre blockbuster WICKED.

Due to extraordinary demand, new tickets will be released today for the Melbourne season of the award-winning musical theatre blockbuster WICKED. WICKED Australian Co-Producer John Frost said, 'Bookings are very strong for the return of WICKED to Melbourne - it really is the most successful Broadway musical of the past decade. Audiences can't wait to see this glorious show back in its original Australian home, the beautiful Regent Theatre, Melbourne this year

It was an all-consuming rebirth in color as cascades of lush and textured emerald lights sprung to life in an intense surge from the heart of the stage, as a map of Oz, especially rigged as a stage curtain for the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) Main Theater, raised to unravel a fantastic tale: One told in the Philippine premiere of the blockbuster megamusical WICKED.

For a truly gifted musical theater genius, WICKED's composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz is picture-perfect as the laidback, generous, fun-loving avuncular figure that is the embodiment of all the high-spirited uncles that you've had as a kid growing up. Schwartz, comfortably (and most suitably for the occasion) clad in a black and green sports shirt, dressed-down gray jeans, well-loved sneakers, and seeming much more like the genial 'Wizard of Oz' than the green-skinned 'Elphaba' (which ironically, he admits, he is more like the latter), was the defining image of easy composure. Ready to bigheartedly answer questions from a select few media representatives, he cheerfully made his entrance onto the plush, intimately-set ambience of the conference room prepared by Concertus Manila and co-sponsor Diamond Hotel Tuesday, February 4.

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Celebrity socialite and occasional theater actress Tessa Rufino-Prieto Valdes, alongside WICKED Australasian tour stars Jemma Rix (Elphaba), Suzie Mathers (Glinda), Steve Danielsen (Fiyero), and Jay Laga'aia (The Wizard), hosted a live benefit auction at the end of WICKED'S matinee performance on Friday, January 31, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) main theatre.

Today marks 100 days until the most awarded new blockbuster musical WICKED, one of the most successful shows in Broadway history, premieres in Melbourne as part of the 10th Anniversary Tour. WICKED previews commence on Wednesday 7th May with opening night scheduled for 100 days from today: Saturday 10 May at the Regent Theatre.

WICKED previews commence on Wednesday 7th May with opening night scheduled for 100 days from today: Saturday 10 May at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne.

At a press conference, Executive Producer Bernadette Hayes said Broadway icon Stephen Schwartz, WICKED's composer and lyricist, will attend the show's benefit performance for the survivors of super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) on Friday, January 31 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

The ornate set piece 'The Clock of the Time Dragon,' which was introduced by American novelist Gregory Maguire in his book 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,' and recreated on stage by Tony Award-winning scenic designer Eugene Lee, has been raised atop the main stage at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) since more than 50 stage crew members--the majority of them are Philippine locals--began the production's ingress Thursday, January 2.

The local promoters behind the upcoming Manila run of “Broadway's biggest blockbuster” “Wicked” have just announced that the international production, which premieres on Wednesday, January 22, 2014, at the main theatre of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, will be holding a benefit matinee performance and a special auction during curtain call on Friday, January 31, 2014, to raise funds for supertyphon Haiyan victims in central Philippines.

Elphaba is one of the great female roles of modern times, and she requires a powerhouse performer to portray her. Only the best get to try it, and Australia's Jemma Rix has nailed it more than 800 times since taking on the role. Here, she shares a little of her brain on musical theatre - and tells us what she thinks makes Wicked such a strong, special show.

WICKED Australian Co-Producer John Frost today announced that preview tickets for performances from 7-9 May for WICKED's 2014 Melbourne season will be available for sale on September 30. The award-winning musical theatre blockbuster is returning to its original Australian home, the Regent Theatre, Melbourne next year from May 7 for a strictly limited season.

New Zealand-born star of stage, television and screen, JAY LAGA'AIA, is today confirmed to play The Wizard of Oz in the Auckland season of WICKED - the Broadway musical blockbuster coming to New Zealand this month.

After a 10 month break the juggernaut that is Wicked returned to rehearsals this week before their upcoming foray to Auckland and Manila, with a return engagement in Australia commencing May 2014 in Melbourne to follow. While some familiar faces remain, the majority of the cast are brand new. After an exhaustive audition process, assembled is a young, energized and particularly talented group of performers ready to bring the prequel to The Wizard of Oz to life.

James Cundall, CEO of Lunchbox Theatrical Productions Limited, one of the lead producers of the highly-anticipated Manila premiere of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's smash hit musical 'Wicked: The Untold Stories of the Witches of Oz,' introduced to the members of the press yesterday Australian theater actresses Jemma Rix and Suzie Mathers, who will play Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch, respectively.