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A male Wicked witch, a female Billy Elliot? Welcome to West End Recast by Nancy Groves

Adam Lenson's one-night-only musicals compendium has actors singing the parts that gender, age or race normally rule out. But can it shake up traditional casting?Green light floods the auditorium, the familiar strings stir into action and, for the umpteenth time this year, Wicked's Elphaba prepares to defy gravity on a West End stage. Only this time, she's not a she, but a he. Nick Holder might have a green face, won…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM on March 17, 2014

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