Shows · Waitress
Waitress
Opened 2016
1,544 performances
Musical, Contemporary
Jenna, a gifted pie baker trapped in an abusive marriage in a small Southern town, discovers she is pregnant and pours her emotions into creating extraordinary pies. When she begins an affair with her new doctor and enters a pie contest that could be her ticket to freedom, Jenna must find the courage to take control of her own life and bake her way to independence.
- Music
- Sara Bareilles
- Lyrics
- Sara Bareilles
- Book
- Jessie Nelson
Productions3 productions: 2 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Recordings 6 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Waitress matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Waitress is a musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson. It is based on the 2007 film, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly. It tells the story of Jenna Hunterson, a baker and waitress in an abusive relationship with her husband, Earl. After Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant with Earl's child, she begins an affair with her obstetrician, Jim Pomatter. Looking for ways out of her troubles, and at the urging of her friends, she enters a pie-baking contest, seeing its grand prize as her chance. After a tryout at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August 2015, Waitress premiered at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway in April…
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