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Marissa Bode speaks out about making history in Wicked as Nessarose and what it means to be the first wheelchair user. Marissa Bode reflects on making history as 1st wheelchair user to play ...
Wicked: For Good will feature a few new songs – including one cowritten by Erivo, 38 – as well as make some changes to Nessarose’s story. Spoilers for the Wicked musical: In Act 2, Elphaba ...
Meet "Wicked" star Marissa Bode, who makes history as the first wheelchair user to play Elphaba's sister Nessarose in the musical's 21-year history.
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.
In Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), the silver shoes are a gift to Nessarose (the Wicked Witch of the East) before she and her sister, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) start college. They are made by her father using special glass beads another man (Turtle Heart, possibly her biological father) taught him ...
Marissa Bode is speaking out about the “very gross and harmful” comments she has seen directed at her Wicked character and her disability.. The 24-year-old actress — who plays Nessarose ...
Adding to the challenge was the fact that they couldn’t move forward with casting Nessarose until they had filled the role of Elphaba. When Cynthia Erivo landed the latter part, Marissa Bode was ...
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