There’s an uncommon commotion emanating from the front row of the refurbished Town Hall across from Kings Cross railway station where Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo has been discussing her book Simply More with Doctor Who and Barbie actor Ncuti Gatwa.

Some in in the audience crane forward as others, closer to whatever’s going on, leap from their seats fearing that the beloved Wicked Witch of the West might be in some danger. Was someone attempting to attack her?

Erivo didn’t shy away. She rose from her chair and moved downstage and leant over the apron. The ear-splitting wails came from a little girl trying to get the star’s attention. “She just shot up, waving her hands … It didn’t feel like she was moving off her own accord,” Erivo tells us the following day as we sit in a p

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