Longtime Coronation Street mainstay Susie Blake swapped Weatherfield for witchery this week, when she stepped into the role of Madame Morrible in the West End’s Wicked. Replacing the redoubtable Miriam Margolyes in the part might have presented a daunting task for some, but the spellbinding Ms. Blake looks just magical to us. And it looks like her co-star Nigel Planer, the wonderful Wizard himself, thinks so too.

Photos by Tritram Kenton