Waitress
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LOCATIONEthel Barrymore Theatre
Sara Bareilles’ score and creatively titled pies are a sweet combination.
Story
Waitress tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself. Through the support of her fellow waitresses, and an unexpected romance, Jenna begins to find the courage to take a long-abandoned dream off the shelf. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well baked pie.
Duration
2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
Audience
Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Late Seating
Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management.
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Sara was born on January 7, 1982 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is an actress and producer, known for Loving (2016), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
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Role: ActorPhoto Credit: Emilio MadridDrew Gehling made his Broadway debut as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys and went on to play Warren Smith in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Gehling appeared off-Broadway in the musicals A Minister's Wife and Anne of Green Gables.
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Role: ActressPhoto Credit: RubensteinCaitlin Houlahan is back at the diner serving up pies after leaving to sing some Bob Dylan tunes in Girl From the North Country at the Public Theater downtown. Other recent work: The Bridges of Madison County (1st Nat'l), Parade (Lincoln Center), The 25th…Spelling Bee (Bucks Co. Playhouse), The Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed). TV/film: Peter Pan Live! and Girls. Thanks to the Waitress team for their love and support and part in making dreams come true. Love to her hometown in Cleveland,
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Ginna Claire Mason is thrilled to step into the bubble after seeing the original cast on Broadway at age 13 and telling her parents at intermission, “I’m going to be Glinda someday.” Tour/Vegas: Wicked, Newsies, Flashdance, Duck Commander Musical. Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Grease. Nashville native. BFA in music theatre, Elon University. Thank you Mom & Dad, Amplified Entertainment, Telsey, Vocal Power LLC and the Wicked team. Love to my Prince, Eric.
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It's easy as pie to fall for "Waitress," a sweet comic musical returning Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller ("Beautiful") to Broadway. Pop singer Sara Bareilles works a recurring chorus of those three ingredients, above, into many of the softly textured songs here, holding out the promise of scrumptious things to come.
From: NBC New York | By: Robert Kahn
The third item in Sara Bareilles' score is what might be Broadway's first song about an e.p.t.; that is, an early pregnancy test. This suggests, early on, that this new musical-with score, book, direction and choreography by a quartet of women-is going to offer a somewhat different take on things. Which wouldn't matter if the results were subpar; but they are above-par, considerably so. The key statement is not that Waitress is a musical from a team of women, but that Waitress is a good musical from a creative team who happen to be women. (Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Fun Home-with one of Broadway's finest scores of the last quarter century-has already established the fact that gender has nothing to do with musical theatre excellence.)
From: USA Today | By: Elysa Gardner
Story
Waitress tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself. Through the support of her fellow waitresses, and an unexpected romance, Jenna begins to find the courage to take a long-abandoned dream off the shelf. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well baked pie.
Duration
2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
Audience
Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Late Seating
Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management.
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Sara was born on January 7, 1982 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is an actress and producer, known for Loving (2016), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
Read More -
Role: ActorPhoto Credit: Emilio Madrid
Drew Gehling made his Broadway debut as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys and went on to play Warren Smith in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Gehling appeared off-Broadway in the musicals A Minister's Wife and Anne of Green Gables.
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Role: ActressPhoto Credit: Rubenstein
Caitlin Houlahan is back at the diner serving up pies after leaving to sing some Bob Dylan tunes in Girl From the North Country at the Public Theater downtown. Other recent work: The Bridges of Madison County (1st Nat'l), Parade (Lincoln Center), The 25th…Spelling Bee (Bucks Co. Playhouse), The Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed). TV/film: Peter Pan Live! and Girls. Thanks to the Waitress team for their love and support and part in making dreams come true. Love to her hometown in Cleveland,
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Ginna Claire Mason is thrilled to step into the bubble after seeing the original cast on Broadway at age 13 and telling her parents at intermission, “I’m going to be Glinda someday.” Tour/Vegas: Wicked, Newsies, Flashdance, Duck Commander Musical. Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Grease. Nashville native. BFA in music theatre, Elon University. Thank you Mom & Dad, Amplified Entertainment, Telsey, Vocal Power LLC and the Wicked team. Love to my Prince, Eric.
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It's easy as pie to fall for "Waitress," a sweet comic musical returning Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller ("Beautiful") to Broadway. Pop singer Sara Bareilles works a recurring chorus of those three ingredients, above, into many of the softly textured songs here, holding out the promise of scrumptious things to come.
From: NBC New York | By: Robert Kahn
The third item in Sara Bareilles' score is what might be Broadway's first song about an e.p.t.; that is, an early pregnancy test. This suggests, early on, that this new musical-with score, book, direction and choreography by a quartet of women-is going to offer a somewhat different take on things. Which wouldn't matter if the results were subpar; but they are above-par, considerably so. The key statement is not that Waitress is a musical from a team of women, but that Waitress is a good musical from a creative team who happen to be women. (Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Fun Home-with one of Broadway's finest scores of the last quarter century-has already established the fact that gender has nothing to do with musical theatre excellence.)
From: USA Today | By: Elysa Gardner