Published on Dec 16, 2016

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Genre: Drama

Dates: May 21 - June 11, 2017

Venue: Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Prices A: 100, 280, 480, 680, 880, 1080

Prices B: 180, 380, 580, 780, 980, 1280

Features: An international company of over 70 cast, crew and musicians will travel to China, and presents the classical Broadway musicals Wicked at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on May 21st and June 11st, 2017.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

This “eye-poppingly lavish show” (Sunday Express, UK) includes 300 award-winning costumes, spectacular scenery, lighting and projections and a dazzling array of technical wizardy.

An international company of over 70 cast, with an additional 20 local crew and 7 musicians hired in Shanghai. Wicked will be performed in English by an international cast including Jacqueline Hughes (Elphaba), Carly Anderson (Glinda), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Steven Pinder (The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond), Kim Ismay (Madame Morrible), Iddon Jones (Boq) and Emily Shaw (Nessarose). At certain performances Elphaba will be played by Jodie Steele.

With show-stopping songs including ‘Defying Gravity’, ‘Popular’ and ‘For Good’, this “magical musical” (Time Out, UK) has won three Tony Awards and six Drama Desk Awards on Broadway, two Olivier Awards and nine WhatsOnStage Awards in London, six Helpmann Awards in Australia and a Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Album’. Wicked has been hailed as “a breathtaking success story not witnessed since the peak years of The Phantom of the Opera” (Washington Post, U.S.).

Based on the international 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 (Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted) 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 by Winnie Holzman. Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento and the production is directed by two-time TonyAward-winner Joe Mantello.

Tickets for Broadway Musicals Wicked are Available now!