PHOTO FLASH: Wicked Celebrates its 19th Anniversary in the West End, Extends Booking to 2027 and Releases ‘5 Minute Call’ Photography

WICKED, the stage musical phenomenon which tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, tomorrow, Saturday 27 September, celebrates its 19^th anniversary at the West End’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. In celebration, Wicked marks the occasion with the release of a new series of photographs by Danny Kaan, entitled ‘5 Minute Call’, which document members of the company making their final preparations ahead of the curtain going up. Wicked also today announces its landmark 40^th public booking extension through to Sunday 3 January 2027.

“One of the most successful musicals of all time” (BBC News), Wicked opened in London in 2006 and is already the 10^th longest-running West End production in history. Winner of more than 100 global awards, the production has now been seen by over 13 million people in London alone.

The London company currently stars Emma Kingston (Elphaba), Zizi Strallen (Glinda), Carl Man (Fiyero), Sarah Ingram (Madame Morrible), Michael Matus (The Wizard), Ross Carpenter (Boq), David McKechnie (Doctor Dillamond), Hannah Qureshi (Nessarose), and Laura Emmitt (Alternate Elphaba), Lydia Gerrard (Standby for Glinda), Iroy Abesamis, Zac Adlam, Steph Asamoah, Meg Astin, Rebecca Bowden, Shaun Chambers, Erin Gisele Chapman, Grace Durkin, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Aaron Elijah, Emily Goodenough, Aimee Hodnett, Nat Ingham, Holly Lawrence, Jemima Loddy, Josh Lovell, Rory Maguire, PaddyJoe Martin, JoJo Meredith, Ayden Morgan, Rina Punwani, Abbie Quinnen, Jemma Revell, Jeanie Ryan, Charlotte Anne Steen, Chris Tarsey, Hannah Taylor, James Titchener and Jacob Young. Please click  HERE for company biogs. 

Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s celebrated stage musical is based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire and imagines a beguiling backstory and future possibilities to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked reveals the decisions and events that shape the destinies of two unlikely university friends on their journey to becoming ‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’.

Wicked has music and lyrics by multi-Oscar® and Grammy® Award winner Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, The Prince of Egypt, Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted). It is based on the multimillion-copy best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and written by Emmy® and Tony Award® nominee Winnie Holzman (creator of the landmark American television series ‘My So-Called Life’). Musical staging is by Tony Award® winner Wayne Cilento with direction by two-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello.

Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman have collaborated on the two-part Universal Pictures film version of Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu and produced by Marc Platt and David Stone. Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Part 1 of the blockbuster opened in November 2024, and has become the highest-grossing film, based on a stage musical, in history. Wicked: For Good will be released in the UK on November 21, 2025.

Performances continue Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm, and Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2.30pm. The following nineteen added shows are also on sale: Thursday 30 October 2:30pm, Friday 19 December 2:30pm, and Monday 22 December 7:30pm, Tuesday 23 December 2:30pm, Monday 29 December 2:30pm & 7:30 pm, Tuesday 30 December 2.30pm 2025 and Friday 2 January 2:30pm, Thursday 19 February 2:30pm, Thursday 2 April 2:30pm, Thursday 6 August 2:30pm, Thursday 20 August 2:30pm, Thursday 29 October 2:30pm, Friday 18 December 2:30pm, Monday 21 December 7:30pm, Tuesday 22 December 2:30pm, Sunday 27 December 7:30pm, Monday 28 December 7:30pm and Tuesday 29 December 2:30pm 2026.

The stage musical Wicked is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone.

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