WICKED Flies Back to Ireland Next Year; Tickets On Sale Friday

WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical phenomenon that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, will be flying back to Dublin for a limited 7 week run next year.

According to Entertainment.IE, WICKED will be playing at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from 17 July to 1 September 2018, and tickets (priced from €25) are on sale at 10am this Friday 30 June through Ticketmaster outlets.

Check out the trailer for the limited run!

Acclaimed as "one of the West End's true modern classics" (Metro), Wicked is now in its 11th smash hit year at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it is already the 17thlongest running show in West End theatre history. The "hugely popular show" (The Times) is a three-time winner of the theatregoer-voted WhatsOnStage Award for 'Best West End Show' and a two-time winner of the Olivier Audience Award. The critically acclaimed and multi record-breaking UK & Ireland Tour returns from 31 January 2018, visiting Bristol,Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Dublin, Sunderland, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester.

Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously re-imagines the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz',WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

WICKED has music and lyrics by multi Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Disney's Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted and, for DreamWorks, The Prince of Egypt) and is based on the novel 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire and adapted for the stage byWinnie Holzman (My So-Called Life). Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento and the production is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

WICKED is produced around the world by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. Executive Producer (UK) Michael McCabe.

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