Susie Blake to Replace Miriam Margolyes in the West End's Wicked

Susie Blake

Susie Blake is set to replace Miriam Margolyes as Madame Morrible in the West End’s Wicked. Margolyes will play her final performance as the menacing headmistress on 31 March. Blake will have her first performance in the role on 2 April at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.

Blake has played the recurring role of Beverly Unwin in perennial ITV soap Coronation Street for the past four years. She is also still much-loved for her regular appearances in comedienne Victoria Wood’s 1980s TV series As Seen on TV. In that show, she most famously played a TV continuity announcer incapable of refraining from providing a running commentary consisting of her character’s own opinions on the show itself and the state of the world at large. Her recent theatre work includes playing Belinda Blair in the National’s revival of Michael Frayn’s farce Noises Off, which subsequently played on tour and at the West End’s Piccadilly Theatre. She played Mother Lord in the national tour of Ian Talbot’s production of High Society. Her other stage credits include regular appearances at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre, where she has appeared in Snake in the Grass, Joking Apart, Virtual Reality, Larkin with Women and All Things Considered. She has appeared at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park in The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and at London’s King’s Head in Tales My Lover Told Me, Much Revue About Nothing and Under their Hats. Previous West End roles include appearances in The Shakespeare Revue for the RSC at the Barbican Pit and the Vaudeville, Prim, transferred from the Lyric Hammersmith to the Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue, Exclusive Yarns, transferred from Watford Palace to the Comedy, When Did You Last See Your Trousers? at the Garrick Theatre, Snoopy, transferred from Newbury’s Watermill Theatre to the Duchess, and Tonight at 8.30 at the Apollo Theatre.