In the event you weren’t capable of get to New York in time to see Sara Bareilles’ star flip in Waitress: The Musical, the subsequent neatest thing will quickly be streaming on Max. The streaming platform will debut a film model of the Broadway musical on February 14th, with Bareilles within the lead function, performing the songs she wrote herself.
Waitress: The Musical is predicated on the 2007 film directed by Adrienne Shelly, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion. (Max may even start streaming the unique movie on February 1st.) Bareilles acquired a number of Tony and Grammy nominations for her work on the music and lyrics for the manufacturing, which focuses on Jenna, the titular waitress and pie-maker at a small-town diner. Jenna desires to flee her loveless marriage, and her pie-making expertise would possibly give her the prospect she wants.
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The manufacturing additionally options Charity Angél Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Drew Gehling, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, with Joe Tippett and Christopher Fitzgerald. Brett Sullivan directed the movie adaptation, whereas Diane Paulus directed the stage manufacturing, with an adaptation by Jessie Nelson.
Along with being a Broadway child, Bareilles not too long ago starred within the acclaimed and hilarious Girls5eva. The sadly canceled Peacock-to-Netflix comedy, spotlighted an early-00s lady group trying to reclaim their previous glory. Its third and last season was one among Consequence‘s finest reveals of 2024. She’ll even be showing with Meg Wolitzer and Sarah Ruhl on the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York this April for a night of brief fiction.