West End hit musical, Wicked celebrates its 8th sensational year at the Apollo Victoria theatre.
With the announcement of the 16th booking period, tickets for Wicked are now on sale over a year in advance until Saturday 1 November 2014. Wicked is now the second longest running musical at the Apollo Victoria theatre in London, second only to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express.
Starlight Express the show on roller skates opened in 1984 and ran for 7,406 performances, over 18 years.
The show claimed a record-breaking £761,000 taken at the box office, during its first eight performances and to date has grossed more than £150 million in London ticket sales alone an been seen by over 5 million people.
Acclaimed as “one of the most popular West End musicals ever” (London Evening Standard), the London production of the global musical phenomenon
Tickets for Wicked the musical are now on sale until Saturday 1st November 2014.
Willemijn Verkaik who will play Elphaba in Wicked the musical at the Apollo Victoria theatre in London
From the 18th November, this year award-winning actress Willemijn Verkaik will play the role of ‘Elphaba’. Following her Broadway triumph the award-winning Dutch star has previously played the role in more than 1000 performances in Holland and Germany. In the hit musical’s decade-long history, she is the only actress to perform the role in more than one language.
Willemijn Verkaik said: “It has been my great honour to have played ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked in Germany, Holland and on Broadway, and to have been part of this musical’s incredible international success. I am overjoyed, and sincerely grateful, that the producers have now invited me to make my West End debut playing this extraordinary role in the musical that has literally changed my life”.
