As the West End show Wicked marks its 20th anniversary, one of the cast’s newest members said she is having great fun playing one of its main characters.<\/p>\n
Claire Machin, originally from Stoke-on-Trent, is taking on Madame Morrible as a series of special pink, green and gala performances are scheduled at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.<\/p>\n
“I love how vile she is,” she said of her character. “It’s great fun to play.”<\/p>\n
She added: “I’ve been here four months, and I’m absolutely having a ball.”<\/p>\n
She enjoys how “crazed” the character becomes over the course of the story, she said.<\/p>\n
The musical phenomenon is based on Gregory Maguire’s bestselling novel, and has become the eighth longest-running musical in British history.<\/p>\n
It has clocked up more than 7,500 performances and won more than 100 awards worldwide, including Tony, Olivier and Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the West End show Wicked marks its 20th anniversary, one of the cast’s newest members said she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}