Rob Mills

John Frost, WICKED Australia Co‐Producer, announced today that Rob Mills, who has played the role of Fiyero in the musical WICKED since it opened in Melbourne two years ago, is moving on. Mills’ last performance will be on Sunday June 6.

After an extensive nation‐wide search, Mills was cast in the role of the playboy Prince, seemingly shallow and self absorbed, the love interest for both Glinda the Good and Elphaba, the green‐skinned “Wicked” Witch. It was a role he had sought ever since hearing the music a couple of years before. WICKED opened in July 2008 at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne and played for a record breaking 13 month season, before it moved to Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in September 2009.

Mills admitted he is going to miss his WICKED family. “Playing Fiyero in WICKED has been my dream role and Musical Theatre has become my home. I’ve learnt so much from my wonderful cast and crew family and will miss them all dearly. I sincerely thank John Frost and the GFO team for giving me the chance to be a part of this amazing production. I’m looking forward to the next challenge and look forward to treading the boards again very soon.”

John Frost thanked Mills for his contribution to making WICKED the huge success it is. “Rob was determined to play Fiyero and fought hard throughout the audition process to obtain the role. It has been wonderful watching him grow as a performer and make the role his own. Rob rapidly grew from that carefree finalist on Australian Idol into a leading man on the musical theatre stage. I thank Rob sincerely for being a part of WICKED for the past two years, and look forward to seeing what this surprising young man does next.”

The search is now underway to find WICKED’s new playboy Prince.

Hey there everybody,

Summer is over!!! I can't believe how quickly the last six months has gone here in Sydney. I must really like it here. I have been visiting the beach heaps, doing a bit of surfing. Love it. The show has now done over 200 performances, which is more than 650 overall. Wow! Penny McNamee left the show last Friday night... There was many a tear shed. She will be missed by everyone at Wicked. And we also just lost Tina Tan, who is going on to Mary Poppins... So sad when original members of the team leave. We are really a big family now... It's pretty much two years since we all met. How scary.

On a happier note, the WICKED cast are performing a special one night only performance on INTO THE WOODS on Monday, May 17 for the Rob Guest Endowment - visit here for more info... www.robguestendowment.com.au. Lucy and I were contestants on READY STEADY COOK today. I was Tomato team and Lucy Capsicum team. So much fun and so much food. I think i have a little food baby with me now. We ate everything until they told us, they needed the dishes to pack up!!!  Watch out in June for the episode..

Not sure if you have heard but there is a Cleo Bachelor of the year thing going on at the moment. If you wanna vote for yours truly jump online and check out the facebook page Vote-For-Rob-Mills-For-Cleo-Bachelor-2010. There is a great video of Bert Newton pledging his support. Hilarious. Or go to CLEO.com.au and follow the prompts to vote.

Speak soon everybody...
Rob

Happy Australia Day Everyone and Happy New Year too.

Has everybody kept to their new years resolutions?

I only made a few... Get better at guitar and take up surfing... It's all going pretty well so far.

Wicked is going really well up here in Sydney but won’t be here forever so get your tickets if you haven't seen it yet, or would like to see it again.

I’m still really enjoying Sydney, the beaches are beautiful, that's where i spent most of Australia Day. Tamarama. Some guy up on the hill was blasting out Aussie Classic music from his house, it was the best. Swimming in the surf listening to Daryl Braithwaite and Cold Chisel. Brilliant.

Hmmm what else? I may have got hayfever, but not sure, it could just  been a really really long cold. Is it even possible to get hayfever after never having it for 27 years?

I was very excited to receive my scarecrow puppet from the Melbourne Puppeteers (thankyou so much i love him). Will twitter some pics of him soon.

Keep twittering as i love all the feedback, and questions if you've got any. I try and check it everyday. Am no the best twitterer but getting better i think.

Don't dream big this year... Be big.

Speak soon.

Rob