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The Current Cast

Elphaba- Julia Murney

NYC: Lennon (Broadhurst Theatre), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (MTC; Drama Desk nomination), The Vagina Monologues (Westside Theatre), Crimes of the Heart (Second Stage), A Class Act (MTC), Time and Again (MTC; Lucille Lortel nomination), First Lady Suite (Transport Group). Tour: Wicked 1st national. Regional: Pioneer, Virginia Stage, Goodspeed, O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown, Reprise! L.A. TV: “Sex and the City,” “Ed,” “NYPD Blue,” all three “Law & Orders” and about a gazillion voiceovers. Recordings: original cast albums of The Wild Party, A Class Act, the Grammy-nominated Actors’ Fund benefit of Hair and her first solo album, I’m Not Waiting, which is available in the lobby and on Sh-K-Boom Records. www.juliamurney.com. Peace.

Glinda- Kendra Kassebaum

received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for her portrayal of Glinda in the national tour of Wicked. Most recently on Broadway, she was seen in the Tony Award-winning production of Assassins directed by Joe Mantello. Ms. Kassebaum was also seen in the Broadway production of Rent. Tours include A Chorus Line and Grease. Recently, Kendra starred as Amy in Company at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Other regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT, Ordway, Florida Stage and the St. Louis MUNY. Recordings include the Grammy-nominated cast album of Assassins. www.kendrakassebaum.com.

Madame Morrible- Jayne Houdyshell

Broadway: Well, Longacre Theatre (2006 Tony nomination, Theatre World Award, A.E.A. Richard Seff Award). Off-Broadway:Well, Public Theater (2004 Obie Award and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award nominations), The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Much Ado About Nothing at NYSF, Fighting Words with Underwood, True Love at Zipper Theatre, Attempts on Her Life at SoHo Rep. Regional: The Pain and the Itch, Steppenwolf Theatre (2005 Jefferson Award); The Clean House, Wilma Theater (2005 Barrymore Award); MacCarter Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Repertory Theater, GeVA, Syracuse Stage, and many others. Film: Garden State, Changing Lanes, Trust the Man, Things That Hang from Trees. Television: "Conviction", "Law & Order", "Third Watch." Proud member of AEA.

Wizard- David Garrison

best known as Steve Rhoades on “Married with Children,” has starred on Broadway in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (Tony nom.), Titanic, Torch Song Trilogy, The Pirates of Penzance, Bells Are Ringing, and Off-Broadway in I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nom.). He played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (national tour), the Devil in Randy Newman's Faust, Henry Carr in Travesties (Williamstown), Frosch in Die Fledermaus (Santa Fe Opera), and Charlie in the Arena Stage revival of Merrily We Roll Along (Helen Hayes Award). Other television credits include “Law and Order,” “The West Wing,” “The Practice,” “Without a Trace,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “NYPD Blue,” “Judging Amy,” “Murphy Brown,” “Murder She Wrote,” “LA Law,” Tom Clancy’s “Op Center,” and, for PBS Great Performances, “On the Town” with the London Symphony and “Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall.”

Doctor Dillamond- Steven Skybell

Broadway: Harold Nichols in The Full Monty, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Cafe Crown and Ah, Wilderness. Off-Broadway: Antigone in New York (Obie Award) The Lesson (Atlantic), The Controversy (Public), What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons) and numerous Shakespeare productions at the Delacorte and The Public. Regional: Dr. Dillamond (Wicked in Chicago), King Arthur in Camelot (Helen Hayes nom.), title roles in Uncle Vanya (McCarter/La Jolla) and Hamlet (California Shakespeare), inaugural season of Shakespeare’s Globe/London (as seen on PBS “Great Performances”). TV: “Law and Order”, “Sex and the City”, “All My Children.” Film: Simply Irresistible, Cradle Will Rock, Tom and Francie.

Nessarose- Cristy Candler

proud to be returning as an original cast member of Wicked. Other credits include Aida (Broadway), Girlstown (Off-Broadway) and Rubberville (Off-Broadway). Workshops: Urban Cowboy, Dirty Dancing, Finian’s Rainbow. She has a BFA from Loyola Marymount University and is a graduate of Idyllwild School of Music & the Arts. Cristy can be seen on the cover of Yoga Journal magazine, in Yoga in Bed and Yoga for Suits (book and DVD) and various TV commercials. “Thank you to my husband.”

Boq- Logan Lipton

National tour: Boq in Wicked. Off-Broadway: Cupid & Psyche. Film: Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island. For this opportunity, Logan thanks The Araca Group, Craig Burns, Tesha Buss, James Carver, Robin Ellis, Mychelle Hopkins, Leading Artists, Grayson Lipton, Joe Mantello, David Montee, Margaret Nichols, Brynn O’Malley, Marc Platt, Melody Racine, David Reiser, Sage Sackett, David Stone, Bernard Telsey, Weston Playhouse, The Whytes, Mom, Dad, Kathy, Stan, and every teacher he’s ever had. Logan is a proud graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Michigan. More shameless thanking at loganlipton.com.

Fiyero- Sebastian Arcelus

comes to Wicked on Broadway having recently performed the role of Fiyero in the first national touring company. He has also appeared on Broadway as Jan in Good Vibrations and as Roger Davis in Rent. Some regional and international credits include The Full Monty, Hamlet: A Rock Opera, Caligula, Aida, Floyd Collins and the world premiere of William Finn’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. His voice can also be heard on numerous animated cartoons, most notably as the voice of Papi on Nickelodeon’s “Go Diego, Go!” For Peter Carvell.

Standby for Elphaba-Lisa Brecia

Standby for Glinda- Alli Mauzey

Broadway: Hairspray (Brenda). Tour: Hairspray (Brenda, 1st national). Regional: City of Angels (Mallory, Reprise!), The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! (June, Laguna Playhouse, West Coast premiere), 110 in the Shade (Snookie, Pasadena Playhouse). Her voice can be heard on Toon Disney in the animated series “A.T.O.M.” (Lioness and Firekat). Graduate of NYU (BFA). Much love and thanks to Dad, Mom, Aimee, Andrew, friends, family and voice teacher Edward Sayegh!

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