There’s no place like home … or there’s no place like the Curve because the full cast of The Wizard of Oz has finally been revealed.
Running in Leicester from 19 November 2022 to 8 January 2023, the festive musical production had previously announced the talented Georgina Onuorah would be taking on the role of Dorothy in the production. She will be joined by an absolutely star studded cast making Leicester the place to be this winter.
Jonny Fines (Curve’s My Beautiful Laundrette and An Officer and a Gentleman) will be joining the production as Scarecrow, Paul French (Curve’s Grease, Dominion Theatre) as Tin Man and Giovanni Spanó (Bat Out Of Hell, London Coliseum) as Lion. Ben Thompson (101 Dalmatians, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will take on the role of Dorothy’s canine companion Toto, brought to life on stage using puppetry.
Also joining the cast is stage, screen and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco as Glinda, with while Charlotte Jaconelli (Heathers the Musical, Theatre Royal Haymarket and Britain’s Got Talent runner-up) will join as the Wicked Witch of the West. Leicester actor Mark Peachey, who has recently appeared in Dear Evan Hansen in the West End, will play Professor Marvel and the Wizard.
Dorothy’s Aunt Em will be played by Jacqui Dubois (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, UK tour) and Uncle Henry will be played by Geoffrey Aymer, last seen on Curve’s stage in the WhatsOnStage Award-winning Made at Curve production of The Color Purple.
The full cast also includes Andrew Dillon, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Martin McCarthy, Ellie Mitchell, Natasha Mould, Mervin Noronha, Amy Oxley, Andrew Patrick-Walker, Christina Shand, Charlotte St. Croix, Tom Watson and Daisy West.
Marking the regional premiere of The Wizard of Oz, the musical features additional songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as well as Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg’s iconic songs from the original MGM film including ‘Over the Rainbow’, ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’ and ‘We’re off to see the Wizard’. The production is directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster who has recently worked on Billy Elliot the Musical, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, A Chorus Line and Grease which is currently running at the Dominion Theatre in London. If his track record is anything to go by, we expect this production of The Wizard of Oz to live up to the same acclaim that these productions have.
Join Dorothy and Toto as they are swept up from a sepia-soaked Kansas and transported over the rainbow into the technicolour world of Oz with tickets on sale now. To find out more and book visit www.curveonline.co.uk or call 0116 242 3595.
