ADAM GARCIA is the romantic lead character "Fiyero" in the forthcoming production of the musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre. He joins a line of illustrious Fiyeros that began with Norbert Leo Butz on Broadway. Adam has actually played the role before. He stepped into the character during a developmental reading of the script in 2002 in New York, and so has already played opposite Idina Menzel.
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ADAM GARCIA created the role of 'Tony Manero' in the stage premiere of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium in 1998 for which he received an Olivier Award nomination as 'Best Actor in a Musical'. Most recently he starred as 'Chip' in On The Town for English National Opera at the London Coliseum. Adam helped develop the role of 'Fiyero' in the 2002 workshop of WICKED in New York. On television he was recently seen in Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion, watched by over 9 million people on Christmas Day 2005; Agatha Christie's Marple: The Body in the Library and as Nijinsky in Kevin Elyot's Riot at the Rite. His most recent film, Standing Still, in which Adam stars with James Van Der Beek and Amy Adams, has just been released in the U.S. His many other film appearances include The First 20 Million Is Always The Hardest; Wilde and Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly.
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