It's Official: Tucker and Dearman Join UK WICKED as Elphaba and Glinda

By: Jan. 15, 2010
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Recently celebrated as the Best Musical of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly magazine, WICKED London is proud to launch its 2010-11 cast with the news that Rachel Tucker and Louise Dearman will be taking over the West End's most sought after leading lady roles of Elphaba and Glinda.

Irish WICKED fans may recognise Belfast born Rachel Tucker from her time co-presenting BBC Northern Ireland's The Friday Show with Eamonn Holmes. But Rachel is no stranger to the world of musical theatre, having just finished playing Meat in the Queen/Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre and also reaching the semi-finals of the hugely popular BBC1 series I'd Do Anything! In fact, Rachel is no stranger to the Land of Oz either, having played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at Belfast's Lyric Theatre, for which she won a TMA Theatre Award nomination for 'Best Actress in a Musical'! OZMOPOLITAN will be catching-up with Rachel in a few weeks to see what it feels like to be revisiting Oz and seeing it from a slightly different angle!

Louise Dearman will be joining WICKED fresh from her much acclaimed portrayal of Eva Peron in the UK national tour of Evita. Louise's new role as Glinda will mark her return to the West End having previously appeared in Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre. Louise is also about to finish playing opposite musical theatre legend Mickey Rooney in the title role of Cinderella!

Amidst all the excitement of welcoming Rachel and Louise, we will also be bidding a much beloved farewell to our current leading ladies and celebrated Women of the Future Awards winners, Alexia Khadime (Elphaba) and Dianne Pilkington (Glinda). The ladies will be playing their final performance on Saturday 27 March 2010 so CLICK HERE to join us for what we're certain will be a very emotional performance!

WICKED London's news comes shortly after the Broadway production welcomed Katie Rose Clarke and Jenny Fellner as their new Glinda and Nessarose! The pair took over from Erin Mackey (Glinda) and Michelle Federer (Nessarose) on Thursday 14 January to join Dee Roscioli as Elphaba at New York's Gershwin Theatre.

 




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