Bainbridge will become the first wheelchair-using actor to take on the role of Nessarose on stage. It follows the casting of Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair-using actor to play the character, in ...

I also thought, ‘if it was successful on stage, maybe that would be the ... the more we made it a better play.” “Wicked” opened on Broadway in October 2003 and grew into a Tony-winning ...

Allie Trimm, who has been serving as a standby for the role, will play Glinda. Interestingly, Trimm starred as Patrice alongside Grande as Charlotte in Jason Robert Brown’s 13 on Broadway – both ...

Once writing started, the priority was Wicked: Part 1 “because that was ... school — not an enrolled student as she is in the stage play — only there to help her sister Nessarose, a ...

Broadway’s Wicked will welcome two new witches to the stage this spring, with Lencia Kebede serving as the first Black ...

The sequel’s new song was written by composer Stephen Schwartz, who co-wrote the music for the original stage play. Grande said ... her everything I had.” Wicked is still playing in ...