Theater Review: 'Waitress' is a comedic musical affair; not for the whole family (2024)

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Waitress is one of a few Broadway shows with an all-female creative team, including Nelson, Bareilles, director Diane Paulus, and choreographer Lorin Latarro. At a theatre that's home to Waitress, the theatre is known to smell like pie because a real apple pie bakes in a convection oven in the theatre.

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Waitress (also known by its promotional title Waitress: The Musical) is a 2023 American musical comedy-drama film consisting of a live stage recording of Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson's 2015 musical of the same name, based on the 2007 film of the same name written by Adrienne Shelly.

Content Warning: Adult language and content, and domestic abuse.

Waitress is more than just sugar-coated musical theatre. It's a moving portrayal of an inspiring woman who takes the circ*mstances of her life and shakes them up to create her own happy ever after. One that doesn't involve a cliche romance or the archetypal 'white knight in shining armour'.

The broadway musical has come to London and tells the story of a small town waitress called Jenna who makes a darn good pie. More than that, it explores her rocky marriage as well as themes of empowerment, friendship and love.

Due to the mature themes in the script (domestic abuse, infidelity, drinking, and depression) as well as physical and verbal innuendo, we have opted to only sell adult tickets to this show.

Although heavily skewed towards its star and full of high-calorie 2010s music and staging trends, Waitress: The Musical is a delicious experience. Content collapsed.

“It doesn't give you the whole picture of how it represents gender or how it depicts feminist subjects.” Despite these implications, “Waitress” still depicts life for many women. King said she identified with the female characters in “Waitress” because each woman self-sacrifices because of a man.

One of the biggest changes implemented for the film production was using a real baby instead of a prop doll for the scene when Jenna gives birth, an idea Paulus suggested. “The whole scene kind of cracks open, and you just realize the gravity of this moment for this character,” Bareilles said of working with the baby.

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The hit Broadway musical about a small-town pie baker with big dreams gets the silver screen treatment. The hit Broadway musical about a small-town pie baker with big dreams gets the silver screen treatment.

Pie consultant Stacy Donnelly creates some 15 real pies a week for the actors to use onstage and up to 1,600 mason jar pies are sold at a concession stand. “We do feel that nowadays people are so consumed with technology and the creators really wanted to make sure people were immersed in the experience,” said Donnelly.

Its extraordinary run arguably can be attributed to its ordinariness: In making its characters' commonplace concerns the stuff of an upbeat, crowd-pleasing musical, “Waitress” connected with, and ultimately won over, what might be Broadway's most underappreciated audience: women.

Waitress is a musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson. Based on the 2007 film of the same name, 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.

Watch Waitress | Disney+ A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.

Based on the 2007 film of the same name, 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, she begins an affair with her doctor, Dr. James "Jim" Pomatter.