Tony Award-winner Rondi Reed will join the Broadway company of Wicked as Madame Morrible on March 17, replacing Jayne Houdyshell. Reed was the original Morrible in the Chicago production of Wicked and returned to the Chicago company after winning the Tony Award for playing Mattie Fae Aiken in August: Osage County.

Reed joins a Broadway cast that will include Nicole Parker as Elphaba, Alli Mauzey as Glinda, P.J. Benjamin as The Wizard, Kevin Kern as Fiyero, Alex Brightman as Boq, Cristy Candler as Nessarose and Timothy Britten Parker as Dr. Dillamond.

In addition to August: Osage County, Reed has appeared on Broadway in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Grapes of Wrath and off-Broadway in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. She is an ensemble member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she has appeared in The Fall To Earth, Man From Nebraska, The Cherry Orchard, Side Man and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, among others.

Winner of 20 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.