The most successful musical in the world is returning to Toronto. Producer David Stone told the Star that his smash hit Wicked will return to the Canon Theatre in June 2010, presented by Mirvish Productions. Wicked has played Toronto twice already, selling out both engagements and having to turn away thousands of disappointed theatregoers who didn’t purchase tickets in time.
“Toronto was the first city that we ever toured to,” said Stone from his New York office last Friday, “and we can’t wait to get back there.”
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, it tells the early histories of the leading characters from the iconic tale and helps us understand how one witch got to be good, while the other turned out to be wicked. After opening on Broadway to mixed reviews in October 2003, Wicked has gone on to be one of the amazing success stories of recent times. Within a few months of opening, it was selling out regularly on Broadway, which it continues to do in the fifth year of its run.
The national tour, which began in Toronto in March 2005, has broken records everywhere it has played. The sit-down Chicago production is still going strong after 1,000 performances and the Los Angeles version is rapidly closing in on its first anniversary. There are also companies playing in London, Stuttgart, Germany and Tokyo, with one due in Melbourne, Australia, this July and another opening in the Netherlands in 2009.
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