'Company' to 'Wicked': Watch Jonathan Bailey's best musical performances

From his first appearance in Wicked, Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero makes an impression, wooing folks of every gender and kicking up his heels in the feel-good production number “Dancing Through Life.” A child actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bailey, who made a splash in the United States with Bridgerton and Fellow Travelers, has a long musical theater history. He was a child when he played the role of the street urchin Gavroche in the West End’s Les Miserable in 1998-99. And he delivered a wonderfully manic and memorable gender-flipped turn as Jamie in the 2018 West End production of Company.

On his acrobatic “Dancing Through Life,” Bailey told Out (in the interview above), “I just think it's about abandon, isn't it? And I think that's so important in the film to see someone come in with the complete brainless and mindless sort of sense of joy and to then play opposite [Cynthia Erivo’s] Elphaba to then give them the best sort of arc.”

“I loved movie musicals growing up and there’s iconic dance numbers that honestly ignited all my passion. So to be a part of one of those, and also something like ‘Dancing Through Life’ is just amazing,” he says.

Watch and listen to a few of Bailey’s musical numbers below.