#nessarose

[heylolita00]

[prplocks]

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[themaskedmuse]

I just had a thought. I saw Wicked the other day and, aside from concluding it was one of the best movies I have ever seen and how all movie musicals should be made, it made me think on certain things and choices in the movie.

While this is a minor one, I thought it was very interesting. During the Ozdust Ballroom scene, Elphaba starts dancing by herself and past the tears in my eyes I’ve noticed something. A large part of her dance involves hand movements and twisting her body.

Do you think she developed this style of dance in order to be able to include Nessarose in dancing when they were younger?

With her being in a wheelchair she’d obviously have limited movement or involvement in any dance that has a lot of footwork, and while that is a part of her dance, it still relies or begins with an emphasis on hand movements that would be easy for someone in a wheelchair to emulate too (I think, I could be wrong).

What do y’all think? I think it’s a potentially really cool and interesting idea that only deepens the amount of care and love Elphaba has for her sister, and how much she sides with her in refusing to let her be seen as lesser or more needing of help just because she’s in a wheelchair

[raven-curls]

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[phantomstatistician]

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[ameliathefatcat]

I’m all for disability rights, and disability wrongs and Nessarose is disability wrongs

[lillifaba]

Last night Jennifer Newberry got stuck in the bubble during the curtain call. Luckily, her cast members and the backstage crew had her back (x)

[queenoftheferns]

One thing I will say about the Wicked book is that Nessa and Elphaba feel a lot more like acutal siblings

[amnitas]

costume appreciation (1/?) the ruby slippers from the wizard of oz (1939) by victor fleming

[itsgonnabmay]

Full disclosure, I am disabled (POTS, autism, ADHD) but I don't use a mobility aid, so I'm not an authority on this issue and my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

My interpretation of Nessarose was always that the tragedy of her character was the in-universe ableist portrayal of her. To be clear, I completely understand why people take issue with the way it's handled- if this was the writers' intention, (and that's a load bearing if), enough people don't see it that way that it's not portrayed clearly enough- but lines like "see that tragically beautiful girl" to me always seemed so blatantly ableist that had to be intentional.

Nessa, factually, isn't powerless. She literally becomes the governor of Munchkin land. It's not like Nessa doesn't have the resources to make her home more wheelchair accessible (or like Oz doesn't have the technology.) Having house staff to help her with certain tasks wouldn't be abnormal for someone in her social class even if she wasn't disabled, (nor would it make her completely helpless and dependent if she did need extra support with certain things). The problem is that Nessa has been made to feel like she's "pitiful" and "tragic" and like any support she might require is demeaning and further proof of her supposed helplessness. Even during Wicked Witch of the East she doesn't start with the wheelchair, the first thing she brings up is "all of my life I've depended on you".

Their whole lives, Elphaba has been treated like she's responsible for everything and Nessa has been treated like she can't be responsible for anything. Elphaba is assigned too much agency and Nessa isn't assigned any. Elphaba is cast as a villain and Nessa is cast as a victim. Nessa being a wheelchair user is treated as a curse when it should be treated as just a neutral facet of Nessa's identity, much like Elphaba's greenness. Their father fails both of them in equal and opposite ways.

The moment I think the writers screwed up is when Elphaba doesn't refute Nessa at all during the wicked witch of the east scene. In my opinion, just changing that dialogue to have Elphaba challenge Nessa's assertion that she needed Elphaba to "save her" and maybe having this lead to Nessa essentially saying "fine, if you won't help me", taking the grimorie earlier, and doing the spell on the shoes herself would fix a lot of the problematic implications of Nessa's plotline. I'm not saying it would be perfect, but this would make it seem more like "Nessa is a victim of her disability who needs saving" is her father's narrative and not The Narrative without requiring huge rewrites to the show.

Tldr I think the key to fixing the issues with the way Nessa is written is highlighting further that she's not a prisoner of her wheelchair, she's a prisoner of her internalized ableism, which is a product of the dysfunctional family dynamic created by her father's abuse and the general ableism surrounding her

[heylolita00]

[mttztrading]

Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

Wicked - West End: Act 2

[wickedstitchofthewest]

can’t forget Miss Nessarose…. 👠

[leoleolovesdc]

Random wicked hcs:

Nessa: hates it when ppl drag her chair around, she feels like its taking away her ability to move on her own but never says anything bc she doesnt want to be “difficult”

Elphaba: did in fact eat grass as a child

[azural83]

Nessa's shoes having a tornado motif is crazy😭

[the-mirandalorian94]

I’m seeing this trend on tiktok lately of people making fun of Marissa Bode, the actress who plays Nessarose in the Wicked movie, for how she sings in Dancing Through Life and even how she says Boq’s name? I don’t get it. She sounds fine, her voice isn’t perfect but she’s not singing it any differently than any other Nessarose I’ve heard as far as I can tell, and like… dude’s name is Boq. Pronounced ‘bawk.’ There’s no way to say/sing that name that sounds pretty.

But with Marissa talking about the harmful and ableist comments she’s been getting, it’s just kinda making me go ‘hmm 🤔.’