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!

Witchy tale wows crowd at Boston Opera House. Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz are Amazing in Wicked at the Boston Opera House.

By now, seven years into the “Wicked’’ phenomenon, it is clear that this revisionist take on “The Wizard of Oz,’’ one of the most potent myths of the 20th century, has established a pretty potent 21st-century myth of its own.

Boston Opera House is full with the response of the largely female audience to “Wicked’’. While it’s an uneven production, the reality is that each iteration of this musical rises or falls on the strength of its Elphaba, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch — and in Jackie Burns, this “Wicked’’ boasts an Elphaba who could go broom to broom against Idina Menzel herself. Whether she is belting out a truly stunning version of “Defying Gravity’’ to close the first act or cracking your heart by confessing, brokenly, that “I’m Not That Girl,’’ Burns brings a richness of emotional coloration to the role of the green-skinned outcast who discovers that she has supernatural powers. The rest of the cast does not match Burns’s level of radiant intensity, and there are some dead spots between the musical numbers.

Chandra Lee Schwartz plays the other key role, Glinda as a kind of cross between Reese Witherspoon’s Elle in “Legally Blonde’’ and Teri Garr’s Inga in Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein.’’ Luckily for this “Wicked,’’ Jackie Burns retains full possession of her powers of song, from start to finish.

Wicked is performing at Boston Opera House in Boston, MA Through Oct. 17. Tickets $38-$108

Now the most successful musical of modern times returns to the Hub with a seven week engagement at the Boston Opera House beginning Sept. 1.

Venue: Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111
Schedule: Sept. 1, 2010 to Oct. 17, 2010

The last time it came to town, “Wicked” broke all box office records and sold out in record time.

The show also stars Rhode Island native Richard H. Blake as Fiyero, the prince caught between the show’s two main characters: Glinda, who would one day become the Good Witch of the North and Elphaba, the green-skinned girl who became the Wicked Witch of the West.

The musical has been called “a cultural phenomenon” by Variety and just named “the defining musical of the decade” by The New York Times.

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