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"Emily Tierney has described fans of Wicked as the &amp;quot;best fans in the world&amp;quot;. The actress, who plays Glinda on the current UK and Ireland tour of the hit musical, told Digital Spy that she considers herself a devotee of the production.  &amp;quot;I was one of those people!&amp;quot; Tierney said. &amp;quot;I went to see it seven years ago when it opened in the West End and I just sat there. I can&amp;#039;t even describe it, I&amp;#039;d never seen anything like it in my life. &amp;quot;People just make a really amazing connection with it. The characters are familiar because a lot of people know The Wizard of Oz from the film - so they feel some sort of connection anyway.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;The green witch and Glinda the Good Witch are big, iconic characters, but then we flip it on its head and tell a completely different mental backstory. &amp;quot;We tell this completely different exciting story - and they leave going, &amp;#039;Wow! I never expected that to happen&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;Something connects with people of all ages. I know really young people who have gone to see it who have been bowled over by how visual it is. It&amp;#039;s such an amazing show to watch for the costumes and the set designs and the lighting and everything.  &amp;quot;Older people really connect with the songs - the score is world-renowned. Even people who have never seen Wicked know the songs - they know &amp;#039;Defying Gravity&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Popular&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;The score is second to none, it&amp;#039;s an absolute joy to sing every night. The story&amp;#039;s really, really moving. Everyone can connect with the story of these two girls who have this incredible friendship, everyone in their lives wants a friendship like that.&amp;quot;  Tierney added: &amp;quot;Wicked fans are the best fans in the world. &amp;quot;It was my first job, Wicked, five years ago and there&amp;#039;s people that used to come and see me then who have followed me and still support me now. &amp;quot;It does really strike a chord with people, it must do because it&amp;#039;s so successful and they&amp;#039;re so lovely and all I&amp;#039;ve had is positivity.&amp;quot; Of the differences between playing Glinda in Wicked and in her previous job in The Wizard of Oz, Tierney said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very different. Obviously the production&amp;#039;s totally different.   &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m loving, having played Glinda when she was older and more established as Glinda the Good Witch, to now be able to go back and play her when she&amp;#039;s a lot younger and not quite so nice! To explore the darker side to her. &amp;quot;I did say to my agent when I got this job, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m so versatile! I&amp;#039;m just going to play Glinda for the rest of my life&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;ll find every Glinda I can possibly play, hopefully! It&amp;#039;s funny, I&amp;#039;ve spent quite a lot of my life playing Glinda.&amp;quot; Asked what other musical theatre roles she would like, she replied: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to play Evita, I think it&amp;#039;s an amazing role and I&amp;#039;ve never had the chance to audition for it.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s so many exciting things coming out of America at the moment and new writing over here. I&amp;#039;d love to do some smaller, more experimental roles. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m quite happy playing fairies and witches! Any more fairy and witchy parts and I&amp;#039;m happy.&amp;quot;  Wicked - the original West End trailer Tierney added of going on tour: &amp;quot;This is the first time I&amp;#039;ve toured. I&amp;#039;ve worked in the West End for the last five years, so I haven&amp;#039;t ever been out on tour before and I&amp;#039;m loving it already. &amp;quot;For me personally it felt like a really good time to get out of London and have a break from London, because I&amp;#039;ve lived there for nine years now. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s so many shows on in the West End it&amp;#039;s not as much of a novelty, whereas we are the big new show coming to each town and the excitement that Wicked brings to each place is really infectious.&amp;quot; The Wicked UK &amp;amp; Ireland tour is now in Manchester before visiting Dublin, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham, with further dates to be announced for 2015. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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