Instead of Nessarose “pleading for a disability to be fixed”, Wicked Part Two will see the script “focusing on the magic in ...

Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user ever to play 'Wicked's' Nessarose, called jokes about her character's disability 'low ...

Marissa Bode is speaking out after trolls left nasty remarks about Nessarose Thropp's disability in 'Wicked'.

Listen to the people or to the person that it is affecting and how it makes them feel," said Bode, the first wheelchair user ...

"It is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking," the out actor said in a recent TikTok.

The 24-year-old actress, who portrays Nessarose, the younger sister of Elphaba ( Cynthia Erivo ), revealed that after signing ...

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Part Two’ moment for Marissa Bode’s character Nessarose will focus on “the magic of the story,” she tells PEOPLE ...

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.

Marissa then revealed that she is "deeply unserious" and enjoys "silly, goofy, harmless” jokes about Nessarose. However, she ...

Marissa Bode speaks out against harmful jokes about her character's disability in Wicked, urging compassion and change.

Wicked actress Marissa Bode posted a lengthy TikTok after she noticed “aggressive” and “harmful” comments from viewers about ...