Tom McGowan Will Be Wicked’s Wizard Beginning May 3

Broadway vet Tom McGowan will join the Broadway cast of Wicked in the role of the Wizard beginning May 3. He takes over from P.J. Benjamin, who played his final performance on May 1.

McGowan, who has played Wicked's Wizard on tour, has appeared on Broadway in Chicago, Ivano and La Bête. His off-Broadway credits include The Winter’s Tale, Coriolanus, and The Food Chain, for which he won an Obie Award.

He joins a Broadway cast that includes Teal Wicks as Elphaba, Katie Rose Clarke as Glinda, Kathy Fitzgerald as Madame Morrible, Richard H. Blake as Fiyero, Etai BenShlomo as Boq, Jenny Fellner as Nessarose, and Tom Flynn as Dr. Dillamond.