WICKED INTERVIEWS:
Part Two - Liam Doyle (Fiyero)
Wicked flies in to the Birmingham Hippodrome this week as part of it's first ever UK and Ireland tour, and as part of our WICKED WEEK celebrations, we've brought you interviews with two of the show's leads.
Last week, Kyle chatted with leading lady Nikki-Davis Jones, who plays Elphaba on the tour, and this week we conclude our interviews by chatting to Midlands native Liam Doyle, who plays Fiyero in the show. We discuss his unusual path into performing professionally, returning to the Midlands with Wicked, and landing his dream role...
By Kyle Pedley.
Interview Conducted Thursday 24th April 2014.
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| Liam Doyle as Fiyero in Wicked |
“I’m worried that I’m 23 and doing the part that I always wanted to do... it’s just downhill from here!”
Actor Liam Doyle is humbly, and jokily, assessing exactly what it means to him to have bagged his self-confessed dream role at such a relatively young age. The Coventry-born performer is of course speaking of Fiyero, the dashing, debonair leading man of musical colossus Wicked, which continues it’s first ever UK tour this week as it opens for a summer tenure at the Birmingham Hippodrome.
“It’s amazing. It is the part that I always wanted to play, it’s a part that I always kind of identified with.”
