Who will step into Dorothy’s silver shoes in Wicked: Part Two?

Wicked has transported fans to Oz, and now the rumour mill has already started spinning about who could appear on our screens in the next instalment due next year.

The musical adaptation still has another part to be released in cinemas, with a key character set to be introduced.

The first instalment was set years before the events of The Wizard of Oz, but we did get a very brief glimpse of Dorothy and her pals as they were shown walking down the Yellow Brick Road.

Part one followed ‘Wicked Witch’ Elphaba, played by Cynthia Erivo, and her backstory, charting her days as an ostracised daughter and then again as a student at Shiz University.

But the ending saw her fly off to start her solo life, painting a different picture than the traditional one of her being “bad”, setting fans up nicely for part two.

Essentially, we do not know for sure just yet. And the writers and directors have been just as coy about letting anything slip.

There is no Dorothy ever seen in the stage show, just the suggestion on stage and a voice, but that does not mean there will not be one in the film adaptation.

Speaking to Variety about Dorothy’s cameo scene in Part One, director Jon M Chu said: “The Wizard of Oz is potentially a dream. It’s a world where there are no real stakes. Knowing that Elphaba and Glinda live in a world of real stakes, we had to reestablish with the audience that this was real.”

He added: “In the show, Dorothy is around. They have to intersect, and you can only tease it so much. I won’t say whether she’s a character, necessarily, in movie two. There’s a part of me that wants everyone’s Dorothy to be the whatever Dorothy they want.

“And yet, there is interaction and some crossover. So I’ll leave that up to Part Two.”

No actress is credited as playing Dorothy just yet but there are names doing the rounds, of who fans think they may see, and of people fans would love to see.

Here are the two names being used most frequently who could be in the running:

One young star rumoured to be taking on the role is Alisha Weir (Matilda: The Musical).

Some super sleuth social media users have aired their theories that actress Alisha Weir will portray Dorothy after she walked the red carpet at the London premiere of Wicked wearing a pair of metallic silver flats.

In Wicked: Part One, a glimpse of Dorothy was seen from behind where she was wearing heeled silver shoes.

Fans have taken to social media to say they would love to see her take on the role after her success in another film adaptation.

Other fans are convinced Charli XCX should play the character, with one writing on Twitter, which was recently re-branded as X: “Dorothy was the OG brat.”