The Wicked movies’ casting directors explain the secrets to their success

Welcome to another bonus episode of The WhatsOnStage Podcast!

With Wicked: For Good soaring into cinemas this week, editor-in-chief Alex Wood sat down with the two-part, big-screen adaptation’s casting directors – Bernie Telsey and Tiffany Little Canfield – to discuss how they assembled such a rich and varied ensemble for the blockbuster franchise.

The duo, with a long history of casting on stage and screen, shared their proudest moments during a very protracted casting process – and how they felt watching the now-famous Jonathan Bailey dressing room audition tape. They also wax lyrical about the importance of the screen-to-stage pipeline, and how stage stars can become the biggest movie stars of a generation.

Chief critic Sarah Crompton and editor-in-chief Wood host a weekly series on all things theatrical. News, views, frank exchanges and lists offer an unmissable guide to what’s happening on stage (and in film and on television) now, in the past and in future.

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