The Chicago actors Barbara Robertson and Gene Weygandt are rejoining the cast of “Wicked” when the touring production of show arrives in Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre later this fall for its 8-week reprise engagement.

Weygandt, who plays the Wizard, joins the cast in Boston this month and will stay with the show through the end of the Chicago run.

Robertson, who plays Madame Morrible, will just be in the show for the Chicago engagement. “It’ll be a homecoming,” said producer David Stone on Wednesday morning.

The lead roles in the tour are played by Jackie Burns (Elphaba) and Chandra Lee Schwartz (Glinda). “Wicked” arrives at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on Dec. 1 and is slated to run through Jan. 23. Tickets go on sale Sept. 15; $30-$100. Buy Chicago Wicked Tickets before they go on sale.

Gene Weygandt, who created the role of The Wizard in the Chicago production of Wicked, will join the cast of the first North American tour of that hit musical Sept. 14 in Boston, MA.

Weygandt, as The Wizard will join a cast that includes Jackie Burns as Elphaba, Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda and Randy Danson as Madame Morrible.

Weygandt, a Wicked veteran, has previously played The Wizard in Chicago and on Broadway. On Broadway, he created the role of Paul in big: The Musical and is a three-time recipient of Chicago’s Jefferson Award. Mr. Weygandt’s many film and TV credits include: The Birdcage, The Babe, “The Beast,” “Cybill,” “Home Improvement,” “Murphy Brown,” “Drew Carey,” “Ellen,” “Coach” and “USA High.”

The company also features Richard H. Blake (Fiyero), Justin Brill (Boq), Michelle London (Nessarose), Steven Skybell (Dr. Dillamond), and Mariand Torres (Standby for Elphaba) with Penelope Armstead-Williams, Terra Lynn Arrington, Aaron De Jesus, Emily Ferranti, Luis Augusto Figueroa, Dominic Giudici, Napoleon W. Gladney, Spencer Jones, Renee Lawless-Orsini, Philip Dean Lightstone, Kourtni Lind, Marissa Lupp, Sterling Masters, Kevin McMahon, Christopher Russo, Adam Sanford, Carla Stickler, Brandon Tyler, Shanna VanDerwerker, Bud Weber, Betsy Werbel, Sunny L. Yokoyama, Lauren Ashley Zakrin and Jared Zirilli.

The Boston engagement of Wicked is currently running through Oct. 17 at the Boston Opera House. Buy your Wicked Boston MA Tickets now!

Wicked playing at Orpheum Theatre now through September 19.

Back by “Popular” demand. Entertainment Weekly calls Wicked “the best musical of the decade,” and when it played Minneapolis in 2006 and 2008, it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon and was just named “the defining musical of the decade” by The New York Times.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good makes for “the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time” (USA Today).

Orpheum Theatre is located at 910 Hennepin Ave., West Minneapolis, MN 55403. From here Wicked is moving to Madison, WI, playing at Overture Center Madison from September 22 to October 10, 2010.

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