From the spectacular vocals of Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda to the spellbinding visuals that make up ...
Marissa Bode is speaking out against ableist comments about her "Wicked" character. The actress, who plays ...
Wicked marks Bode’s film debut. In the movie, she plays Nessarose, the sister of Erivo’s Elphaba and the future Wicked Witch of the East. Like her character, Bode has used a wheelchair since she was ...
It's widely known now that the cinematic adaptation tells the tale of how the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 original ...
Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user to portray Nessarose in 'Wicked,' has called the reaction online to her character ...
"It is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking," the out actor said in a recent TikTok.
The story is the prequel to “The Wizard of Oz.” It relays the life and times of Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) before she was ...
Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user ever to play 'Wicked's' Nessarose, called jokes about her character's disability 'low ...
Spoilers ahead. If you’re familiar with the Broadway show, you know Nessarose has quite the arc in Act 2. She succeeds her ...
It was in the spring of 2004 that I first saw Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth perform the showstopping “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway blockbuster “Wicked” at the Tony Awards.
Wicked Part 2 takes place in the slightly distant future where — thanks to Oz propaganda (ozganda, if you will) — Elphaba has a reputation for being generally evil...A falsehood which has been ...
Marissa Bode learned she was being cast during a Zoom meeting when lead actors Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande held a sign: ...