Young Follows Vortex with Wicked???
Date: 11 October 2006
Pop star
Will Young, who makes his professional stage debut in
Noel Coward’s 1924 play
The Vortex in Manchester in the New Year (See
News, 22 Jun 2006), has been tipped to take over from
Adam Garcia as Fiyero in Broadway smash
Wicked at the West End’s Apollo Victoria. According to a spokesperson for the musical, the rumours – aired on Sky news this morning and in
The Sun tabloid, amongst other places - are completely unfounded, and prompted purely by Young’s recent visit to see the show.
Wicked tells the “untold story” of the Witches of Oz - popular blonde Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and her spin-victim friend Elphaba, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West – who were both immortalised in the 1939 film classic
The Wizard of Oz. The show has a book by Winnie Holzman, based on Gregory Maguire’s novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
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