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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.
Seemingly as a result of the milkweed, Elphaba's mother dies while giving birth to Elphaba's younger sister, Nessarose. "Elphaba is caught emotionally at that time. We have her carry that through.
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 Thropp (/ ˈ ɛ l f ə b ə ˈ θ r ɒ p /) is the protagonist in the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, its musical theatre adaptation, and the musical's two-part film adaptation, Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025).
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 ...
[5] [7] [8] Suskauer performed over 100 shows as Elphaba. [9] According to Suskauer, being painted into the makeup for Elphaba was a 15-minute process each night, and her standard warmup consisted of 20-minutes of vocal exercises. [9] Suskauer's performances as Elphaba have been received favorably by critics.
“It was the first page,” Lin tells TODAY.com, recalling a scene in which Dorothy and her companions discuss a rumor that Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, is intersex. “I was like, ‘Wait.
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 ...