When the 2024 Wicked film adaptation cast actress Marissa Bode as Nessarose, she became the first disabled actress to portray the role in the history of the production. On March 4, 2025, Jenna Bainbridge joined the Broadway musical as Nessarose. An ambulatory wheelchair user"meaning she walks and uses a wheelchair as needed"Bainbridge marked the milestone onstage more than 21 years after Wicked first opened at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM on November 25, 2025