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“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.
While Nessarose uses a wheelchair, the character had never been portrayed by an actor who uses one in real-life too until Bode, who recalls first seeing Wicked onstage when she was 11 or 12 years old.
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.
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.
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 ...
She is the niece of Floyd Vivino and the daughter of Terri Vivino-Apgar and Jerry Vivino, a member of Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band. [citation needed] Vivino was raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she attended Fair Lawn High School, and graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City.
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 ...