By the time Idina Menzel donned green makeup and soared to a Tony Award as Elphaba in Wicked, she had already won over Broadway audiences as Maureen in Rent (earning her first Tony nomination) and Amneris in Aida.

After leaving Wicked in 2005, she reprised her Rent role in the film adaptation and played Shelby Corcoran on Glee. But as the voice of Elsa in Disney’s Frozen and Frozen II — and the powerhouse behind the Oscar-winning anthem “Let It Go” — Menzel became a household name.

Her recent screen credits include Disenchanted, Uncut Gems, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, and Part 1 of the Wicked movie musical in a cameo role. In 2025, she returned to Broadway in the new musical Redwood, about a woman’s self-discovery, which she co-conceived and produced.

“It’s good to see me, isn’t it?” With a wink and that cheeky line, Kristin Chenoweth floated into Wicked as Glinda, perfectly channeling the bubbly good witch and delighting fans thrilled to see the 1999 Tony Award winner for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown back on stage.

Since Wicked, the Oklahoma-born star has effortlessly bounced between stage, screen, and studio. She made her film debut in 2002's Topa Topa Bluffs, won an Emmy Award for playing Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies, and earned two more Emmy nods for her role as April Rhodes on Glee.

Her supersized soprano has lit up Broadway revivals of The Apple Tree; Promises, Promises; and On the Twentieth Century which earned her a third Tony nomination. Alongside Menzel, she had a cameo in the Wicked movie.

She'll soon return to TV as a cheerleading coach in NBC's Stumble, but in fall 2025, she’s back on Broadway as real-life socialite Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. The musical also marks her theatre producing debut.

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A Broadway legend since his Tony- and Oscar-winning turn as the Emcee in Cabaret, Joel Grey charmed audiences as the Wizard in Wicked and hasn’t slowed down since.

In 2011, he stole scenes as Moonface Martin in Anything Goes and earned a Tony nod for co-directing The Normal Heart. He returned to Broadway in 2016 as Firs in The Cherry Orchard and, two years later, made a major impact directing an acclaimed Yiddish-language revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

On screen, he made a delightful cameo in Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2021 movie musical tick, tick... BOOM! as one of many theatre legends in the song "Sunday." It was a brief but fitting tribute to his iconic Broadway legacy.

Since dancing through life as Wicked's original Fiyero, Norbert Leo Butz has built a dynamic career on stage and screen. He also met his wife, Michelle Federer, in the Broadway show!

Butz has won two Tonys for Best Actor in a Musical — for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Catch Me If You Can (2011) — and also starred in Broadway’s Big Fish and My Fair Lady.

On TV, he earned acclaim as the volatile older brother in Netflix’s Bloodline and portrayed Paddy Chayefsky in Fosse/Verdon and Bill Belichick in American Sports Story.

He's most recently appeared on the NYC stage in 2022's Cornelia Street and 2024's Vladimir, both off Broadway, and played Alan Lomax in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

Broadway’s original Madame Morrible, Carole Shelley was already a stage star with three Tony nominations, including one win for The Elephant Man, before joining Wicked in 2003.

After her first run as the scheming Morrible, she charmed audiences as Aunt Clara in the 2005 film Bewitched and returned to Wicked in 2007. In 2009, she earned her fourth Tony nod as Grandma in Billy Elliot.

Shelley’s final role was a brief cameo in John Mulaney’s 2018 comedy special Kid Gorgeous, shortly before her death that August.

Since originating the role of the Munchkin Boq in Wicked, Christopher Fitzgerald has become one of the most versatile and acclaimed character actors on the NYC stage. He’s earned Tony nominations for his comedic brilliance in Young Frankenstein (2008), Finian’s Rainbow (2010), and Waitress (2016), where he stole the show as sweet-as-pie Ogie.

Other Broadway highlights include An Act of God, The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino, and the 2021 revival of Company. In 2023, he brought the house down in a trio of scene-stealing roles in the first revival of Spamalot.

After making her Broadway debut as Elphaba's sister, Nessarose, from 2003-06, Michelle Federer quickly stepped into another high-profile project, understudying Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain.

She married her Wicked co-star Norbert Leo Butz in 2007, the same year she appeared off Broadway in Anon. She returned off Broadway in the 2014 comedy The Cottage, later understudying for its 2023 Broadway run.

Federer has returned to Wicked throughout her career, participating in a concert of cut songs from the show in 2008 and reprising her role as Nessarose on Broadway in 2019.

Twenty years after originating the role of professor Doctor Dillamond, William Youmans returned to Wicked in the same role in 2023 and is still with it.

In between, he appeared in various Broadway plays and musicals including The Pirate Queen, Billy Elliot, Carousel, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Off Broadway, he has performed with major institutions like The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons. On television, Youmans has appeared in series like Law & Order and Madam Secretary.

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Since being the original standby for Elphaba and understudy for Nessarose in Wicked, Eden Espinosa has gained a devoted fanbase for her vocal range and emotional intensity. After starring in the 2004 musical Brooklyn, she returned to Wicked on Broadway in January 2006 to play Elphaba full-time.

After that, she didn't come back to Broadway until 2024, in the musical Lempicka. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her star turn as artist Tamara de Lempicka.