Natalie Daradich will float onto the Stranahan Theater stage as Glinda the Good when “Wicked” opens its three-week run March 31 in Toledo OH.

“It’s such a music theater gem to pop down in a bubble and it’s a great entrance to a show,” she said. “I really love singing the opening [‘No One Mourns the Wicked’]. I’m a soprano and that’s where I live; I love to sing all the high stuff.”

The musical has been defying gravity since opening in San Francisco and moving to Broadway in 2003. The Tony Award-winning show continues to set box office records, with eight productions of “Wicked” worldwide, including two North American tours and a New York production in the Gershwin Theatre.

“Everyone likes to say [‘Wicked’ is] a prequel to the movie, but it’s not; it’s sort of just looking at ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from another way,” the actress said.

Starring in “Wicked” with Daradich will be Marcie Dodd as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

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Wicked is returnign to Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte, NC on May 19, Playing till June 13, 2010. People began lining up early Friday morning at the Blumenthal Performing Arts box office for tickets to performances of “Wicked.”

The hit Broadway musical, which sold out all its Charlotte performances last year, is returning for a four-week run May 19 to June 13 at Ovens Auditorium.

Tickets for this year’s performances went on sale at 7 a.m., with a three-hour box-office ticket sale planned. At 10 a.m. Tickets will be available online, Check here.

“Wicked” is based on a best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, and it is billed as the “untold story” of the witches of Oz. The play has won more than two dozen major awards, including three Tony Awards and one Grammy.

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After breaking box office records and selling out its entire run in record time both in 2006 and 2008, Wicked, the smash hit musical, makes its much-anticipated return to Historic Orpheum Theatre mn in Minneapolis, MN, Wednesday, August 11-Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010.

“Wicked has been a major success both times it played the Orpheum Theatre and fans have been eagerly waiting for its return. Few shows generate such repeat and fervent enthusiasm,” commented Tom Hoch, Hennepin Theatre Trust’s President and CEO. “We are obviously thrilled to welcome back Wicked and expect the excitement to keep building!”

Minneapolis is not the only city which has enjoyed such demand. The national tour of Wicked has “cast quite a spell” (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a Called “a cultural phenomenon” by Variety and just named “the defining musical of the decade” by The New York Times, Wicked continues to thrill audiences around the world.

Performance dates for Wicked are Wednesday, August 11 to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010 at the Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Avenue, Mpls., MN 55403. Performance times are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. There will also be a matinee performance on Thursday, August 12.

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Natalie Daradich, Chris Peluso to Join Second North American Tour of Wicked

Natalie Daradich will play Glinda and Chris Peluso will play Fiyero in the second North American tour of Wicked on March 10 when the production begins its engagement at the Landmark Theater in Richmond Virginia.

The company also features Marcie Dodd (Elphaba), Marilyn Caskey (Madame Morrible), Don Amendolia (The Wizard), David de Vries (Dr. Dillamond), Zach Hanna (Boq), Kristine Reese (Nessarose), and Anne Brummel (Standby for Elphaba), as well as Meredith Akins, Alicia L. Albright, Kerry Blanchard, Michael Drolet, Jeremy Duvall, Christine Dwyer, Peter C. Ermides, Ryan Patrick Farrell, KC Fredericks, Jenn Furman, Jacqui Graziano, Charles Hagerty, Todd Hanebrink, Ryan Jackson, Lauren Linville, Michelle London, Lesley McKinnell, Casey Quinn, Don Richard, Daniel Torres, Erin Wilson, Justin Wirick, Lindsay Wood, and Kevin Samual Yee.

Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name, Wicked features a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The production is directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento.

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