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Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures From Left: Ethan Slater and Marissa Bode in 'Wicked' At the movie's Los Angeles premiere on Nov. 9, Bode told PEOPLE that her first day on set was among her most ...
Bode is tight-lipped about “Wicked: Part Two” (in theaters Nov. 21, 2025), although as fans of the stage show know, Nessa takes a dramatic turn after Elphaba breaks bad and goes into hiding.
“I saw a video that was like, ‘(The book) explicitly describes (Elphaba’s) pubic hair.’ And I was like, ‘Not really. The book just said it was purple and then moved on,’” she says.
Elphaba is a reimagining of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In the Baum novel, the Witch is unnamed and little is explained about her life; Wicked creates a backstory for her and explores the world of The Wizard of Oz from her perspective.
This show features 13 songs that have resonated with Vivino since childhood and embody her various interpretations of a “dream”. Accompanied by a world-class jazz quartet led by her father, Jerry Vivino and pianist/arranger Mitch Forman, Vivino gave interpretations of songs by Rodgers and Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Antônio Carlos Jobim ...
She then became the standby Elphaba in the Chicago sit-down production of the musical, to Ana Gasteyer of Saturday Night Live. The Chicago production began previews on June 24, 2005, with an official opening night on July 13, 2005, at the Oriental Theatre (now known as the Nederlander Theatre). On January 24, 2006, Cates replaced Gasteyer in ...
Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose, goes on to become the Wicked Witch of the East, who appears in the The Wizard of Oz only as a pair of stockinged legs sticking out from underneath a house.
Theater lovers and movie goers alike have been counting down the days until the film adaptation of Broadway’s Wicked premieres. Wicked made its stage debut in 2003, with Idina Menzel and Kristin ...