Adam Garcia
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Adam Garcia will
join Tony winner Idina Menzel in the London production of
Wicked. Garcia will play the role of Fiyero when the show opens at the Apollo Victoria on 27 September (following previews from 7 September).
Garcia, an Australian-born actor who created the role of Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium in 1998 (for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical) and was more recently seen as Chip in the English National Opera’s staging of On the Town at the London Coliseum last summer, was involved in creating the role of Fiyero in a New York workshop of Wicked in 2002. (The role was originated on Broadway by Norbert Leo Butz.) Garcia first came to London as part of the original cast of the Australian tap dance show Tap Dogs. His other West End roles include playing Doody in Grease. His film credits include Standing Still, The First 20 Million Is Always the Hardest, Wilde and Coyote Ugly. His TV roles include appearances in Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion, Agatha Christie’s Marple, The Body in the Library and Riot at the Rite.
Wicked centers on two girls who meet in the land of Oz long before Dorothy drops in. One, born with emerald-green skin (Menzel), is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of how these two unlikely friends grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, the show features a book by Winnie Holzman, a score by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin) and direction by Joe Mantello.