Experienced Elphaba Jennifer DiNoia will join the West End production of Wicked in the role for a limited engagement. Di Noia will take over from Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Kerry Ellis and begin performances on October 27 and play through January 31, 2015. Ellis’ last show at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre will be on October 25.
DiNoia first joined the cast of Wicked in 2006 and has subsequently performed the role of Elphaba across North America in the national tour, in both the Broadway and Chicago productions, and internationally in Seoul and Sydney. This is her West End debut.
From October 27 the Wicked cast will also include Savannah Stevenson as Glinda, Jeremy Taylor as Fiyero, Martyn Ellis as The Wizard, Liza Sadovy as Madame Morrible, Philip Childs as Doctor Dillamond, Katie Rowley Jones as Nessarose, Sam Lupton as Boq, Emma Hatton as Standby Elphaba and Sophie Linder-Lee as Standby Glinda.