Pay television provider Foxtel will film a special event featuring the cast of the forthcoming Melbourne production of Wicked next weekend, to be aired later this year.
An Audience With The Cast Of Wicked will be filmed at Foxtel's Sydney studios on Sunday, June 8.
The special features as part of a massive marketing campaign for the musical, which opens on July 12 and is expected to have more than $10 million in advance sales by the time the curtain goes up.
Rehearsals commenced in Melbourne a number of weeks ago, with the cast preparing to bring to Australia one of the most successful musicals in the world.
Producer John Frost has been impressed with the sales so far."To get an idea of the scale of our advance bookings you have to go back to the 1980s, when Cats and Phantom set the box office alight," he said. "
The Washington Post called Wicked the biggest box office success story since the peak years of The Phantom Of The Opera and I believe we are going to experience the same phenomenon."
Wicked, which tells the back story to The Wizard Of Oz, stars Amanda Harrison, Lucy Durack, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Rob Guest, Rob Mills, Anthony Callea, Penny McNamee, and Rodney Dobson.
The production's ensemble cast is: Anton Berezin, Ross Hannaford, Anthony Costanzo, Todd Hampton, Ryan Sheppard, Danial J Brown, James Smith, Lockhart Brownlie, Michael Snell, Romina Villafranca, Deanna O'Leary, Liz Stiles, Christina Tan, Zoe Gertz, Patrice Tipoki, Melanie Hawkins, Ellen Simpson, Johanna Allen, James Maxfield, Glen Oliver, Matthew Hamilton, Emma Delmenico, Suzanne Steele and Suzie Mathers.
Aussietheatre.com
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