Overview
- Beginning March 3, Keri René Fuller assumes Elphaba and Emma Flynn makes her Broadway debut as Glinda at the Gershwin Theatre.
- Ellen Harvey joins as Madame Morrible and Blake Hammond arrives from the national tour as The Wizard.
- Carl Man makes his Broadway debut as Fiyero, becoming the first actor of Asian descent to play the role on Broadway and the first to play Fiyero on both the West End and Broadway.
- Oluchi Nwaokorie joins in her Broadway debut as the new Elphaba standby, while Fuller moves up from Elphaba standby to lead.
- The newcomers join Jenna Bainbridge (Nessarose), Daniel Quadrino (Boq), and William Youmans (Dr. Dillamond), as the long-running hit enters its 23rd year with franchise visibility boosted by two recent film adaptations.