Wicked first North American touring company welcomes Gina Beck as Glinda and Alison Fraser as Madame Morrible today, Monday, December 16 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, IL. Beck and Fraser join a cast that includes Alison Luff as Elphaba and John Davidson as The Wizard.
Beck will be making her US debut in Wicked. She comes to the tour directly from the West End production of Wicked where she played Glinda. Other West End credits include: Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera and Cosette in LES MISERABLES. BBC credits include: “Doctors,” “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” and “The Crust.”
Fraser is a two-time Tony Award nominee for The Secret Garden and Romance/Romance. Other Broadway credits include Gypsy,Tartuffe, Born Again and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Roles she has originated include Matron in Tennessee Williams’s In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Arsinoë in The School for Lies, Sister Walburga in The Divine Sister, Miss Drumgoole in Up Against It, Trina inMarch of the Falsettos and In Trousers and Veronica Bailey on ItCouldBeWorse.tv.
The company also features Tom Flynn (Dr. Dillamond), Curt Hansen (Fiyero), Jesse JP Johnson (Boq), Jaime Rosenstein (Nessarose) and Laurel Harris (standby for Elphaba) with Keith A. Bearden, Shayla Beck, Dina Bennett, Kyle Brown, Nirine S. Brown, John Carroll, Rick Desloge, Timothy A. Fitz-Gerald, Adam Fleming, Jenny Florkowski, Lindsay Janisse, Spencer Jones, Sheila Karls, Ryan Patrick Kelly, Trevor Ryan Krahl, Marina Lazzaretto, Alison Leo, Marissa Lupp, Raymond Joel Matsamura, Jonathan McGill, Kevin McMahon, Meredith Miles, Shanon Mari Mills, Cassie Okenka, Brandon Rubendall, Christopher Russo, Pamela Shandrow, Daniel Switzer, Shanna VanDerwerker and Nicky Venditti.
Wicked first North American tour is currently in Chicago performing at Oriental Theatre through December 21, 2013. Final few performances left of Wicked in Chicago Illinois, Don’t miss, Watch Wicked!