US casting updates: The Wiz, Spamalot, & Juliet, Wicked, Harmony

Newcomer Nichelle Lewis Will Lead THE WIZ as Dorothy on Broadway and US National Tour.

The cast will include previously announced Wayne Brady to lead the production as The Wiz on Broadway, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Alan Mingo Jr. will star in the role of The Wiz in the following cities of the US National Tour, including Baltimore, Cleveland, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Greenville, Chicago, Des Moines, Tempe, and San Diego. The cast will also include previously announced Deborah Cox as Glinda and Melody A. Betts as Aunt Em and Evillene, Kyle Ramar Freeman as the Lion, Phillip Johnson Richardson as the Tinman, and Avery Wilson as the Scarecrow.

The upcoming Broadway revival of Eric Idle and John Du Prez' SPAMALOT will feature Christopher Fitzgerald, James Monroe Iglehart, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Ethan Slater, Jimmy Smagula, Michael Urie and Nik Walker.

Iglehart, Kritzer, Smagula, Urie and Walker will be reprising their roles from the run at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. At the Kenendy Center, the role of Lancelot was played by Alex Brightman, who is currently starring on Broadway in The Shark Is Broken.

Performances begin Tuesday, October 31, 2023, and the official opening knight is Thursday, November 16, 2023 at Broadway’s St. James Theatre

Austin Scott joins the the cast of & Juliet on 15 August 2023 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre as William Shakespeare. Scott succeeds Stark Sands, who played his final performance on 6 August 6 as he prepares for his next project, the Avett Brothers musical Swept Away

Jake Pedersen joined the Broadway company of Wicked on 14 August 2023. Pedersen played Boq in the Wicked US tour. He succeeds Michael Wartella, who played his final performance 12 August 2023.

[The upcoming Broadway musical Harmony announced its full cast and creative team.]((https://www.broadwaynews.com/harmony-complete-cast-and-creative-team-announced/) Newly announced cast members include Allison Semmes, Andrew O’Shanick, Zak Edwards, Dan Hoy, Bruce Landry, RhonniRose Mantilla, Daniel Z. Miller, Benjamin H. Moore, Matthew Mucha, Constantine Pappas, Kayleen Seidl, Kyla Stone, Bronwyn Tarboton, Kate Wesler, Stuart Zagnit and Lee Zarrett.

They will join the previously announced Chip Zien, Sierra Boggess, Julie Benko, Sean Bell, Danny Kornfeld, Zal Owen, Eric Peters, Blake Roman and Steven Telsey. The Barry Manilow / Bruce Sussman show will begin previews on 18 October 2023 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.