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Broadway’s Waitress will close Jan. 5, 2020, the show’s producers announced today. The Sara Bareilles musical, directed by Diane Paulus, began previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on March 25, 2016, opened on April 24, and will have played 33 previews and 1,544 regular performances by closing night. The…

Broadway box office found a mid-winter groove as departing shows departed and recent openers moved beyond the comps and press seat period, leaving ticket buyers to buoy the 31-show roster with a $31,699,190 box office take, a tiny 1% slip from the previous week. Attendance for Broadway’s Week 34, ending Jan. 20…

Sara Bareilles, Broadway’s Waitress composer and lyricist, will return to the starring role for a limited engagement in January, launching the hit musical production’s third year. Though the Tony- and Grammy-nominated Bareilles wrote the show’s music, she did not originate the role of the pie-baking Jenna (that was…

Broadway hit Waitress will make its London bow next spring, producers announced today, with performances beginning February at the Adelphi Theatre on the West End. Casting was not announced, but the production will have an all-female creative team, a first for a West End musical, according to producers. The same…

In Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s stage musical adaptation of the feature film Waitress, there’s a purity and innocence baked into the sweet story which follows, like the title suggests, a small-town waitress who unexpectedly gets pregnant from her abusive husband and escapes reality by baking spectacularly quirky…

Katharine McPhee has been set to make her Broadway debut in April when she takes over the lead role of Jenna in Waitress, the Tony-nominated musical based on the movie from Adrienne Shelley that is playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. McPhee, who rose to fame on American Idol and now stars on the CBS series Scorpion…

Broadway’s winter lull focuses all eyes on the slim pickings as long-runs host 2-for-1 sales, houses sit empty in anticipation of the spring semester and shows hustle to sustain momentum after stars have exited for the ski slopes or warmer climes. Tony winner Ben Platt has left Dear Evan Hansen, but that musical, with…

Waitress turns two in April but the musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s indie film is playing like the hot new kid on the block. Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who made her Broadway debut with the exceptional score, returned last week for a second stint in the title role, opposite recording star Jason Mraz as…

As stunt casting goes, it’s not a bad idea at all: For 10 weeks, beginning November 3, Grammy winner Jason Mraz will play the love interest in Waitress, the Sara Bareilles musical, based on the film of the same name, that’s well into its second year on Broadway. Mraz already has recorded Doc Pomattter’s numbers on…

Producers Barry & Fran Weissler announced today that singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles will make her Broadway acting debut beginning March 31 in Waitress, playing the lead role of Jenna Hunterson. Bareilles, who wrote the score for the hit musical, will appear for 10 weeks, through June 11, 2017. “Waitress has turned…

The Hollywood Pantages, owned by the New York-based Nederlander Organization, this morning announced its 2018 season which will include touring stands of current Broadway hits including Sara Bareilles’ Waitress and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School Of Rock. The six-show season, beginning next January, also includes an…

Give the pie a gold medal: Waitress, the musical that marked the Broadway debut of singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, has recouped its $12 million capitalization after less than 10 months, producers Barry & Fran Weissler, with Norton and Elayne Herrick, said this morning. Starring Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller in…