A search for the UK’s best Glee club will be just one of the activities in the fifth annual Wicked Day, to be held at St Pancras International on 31 October.
Wicked Day, a Halloween tradition since the Broadway show Wicked opened at London’s Apollo Victoria theatre in 2006, is a free day of Wicked-themed fun for all the family, held in aid of environmental causes.
This year’s event will see St Pancras International rail station taken over by Halloween themed activities, including face-painting, workshops and live performances by the cast of Wicked. The day will also feature the live final of the search to find the UK’s best new Glee club. Finalists will perform in front of an audience before members of the Wicked cast select a winning group to perform on stage at the Apollo Victoria theatre.
Funds raised on the day will go towards a project supported by Wicked to encourage local young people to interact with the natural environment in London and at the Woodland Trust’s Heartwood Forest near St Albans.
Wicked’s Executive Producer, Michael McCabe, said: “We are very proud to continue using our ‘green’ theme to champion and support environmental causes. This year we are particularly pleased to confirm that all proceeds from Wicked Day will go to the Woodland Trust in support of their unprecedented national tree-planting campaign More Trees More Good, encouraging and helping people to plant trees anywhere and everywhere. With Wicked’s themes of taking responsibility for your own actions, there could not be a more fitting legacy for the show.”
Based on the book by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is set in Oz before and during Dorothy’s adventures in L. Frank Baum’s story The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. Two girls – one green and misunderstood, one blonde and popular – meet at college in Oz and form an unlikely friendship. But life is to take them on different paths as they fulfil their destiny as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Wicked is currently booking at the Apollo Victoria theatre to 29 October 2011.
To find out more about Wicked Day visit www.wickedday.co.uk
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