With more than 1,500 performances during its initial 2016-2020 Broadway run, and a subsequent three-month post-Covid-shutdown remount, Waitress: The Musical baked its way into the hearts of theatergoers, and in December folks who didn’t make it to New York City will get a chance to see what the fuss was about: Bleecker Street and Fathom Events have set nationwide special-event screenings for five nights only beginning December 7.
Bleecker and Fathom released a trailer today. Watch it above.
Starring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as small-town waitress and pie-maker Jenna Hunterson, the musical, with book by Jessie Nelson, is based on the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly. Synopsis: When a baking contest in a nearby county offers Jenna a chance at escape a loveless marriage, the expert baker fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself, and through the support of her fellow waitresses and an unexpected romance, begins to find the...
Bleecker and Fathom released a trailer today. Watch it above.
Starring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as small-town waitress and pie-maker Jenna Hunterson, the musical, with book by Jessie Nelson, is based on the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly. Synopsis: When a baking contest in a nearby county offers Jenna a chance at escape a loveless marriage, the expert baker fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself, and through the support of her fellow waitresses and an unexpected romance, begins to find the...
- 10/19/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to hit musical production Waitress: The Musical, from composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The distributor is teaming with Fathom Events for a December 7 nationwide release of the show, which was captured live onstage in 2021 during its long Broadway run.
Based on Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie feature, Waitress: The Musical stars Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert piemaker 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.
The film was directed by Brett Sullivan, while Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus directs for the...
Based on Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie feature, Waitress: The Musical stars Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert piemaker 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.
The film was directed by Brett Sullivan, while Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus directs for the...
- 9/6/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Atreides stands before a mass of warriors, even greater in number than reports had indicated. When he came to the planet Arrakis, Paul was just another human, someone who will die, just like his father Leto and his grandfather Paulus, and he only knew the Fremen from his studies and holofilms. But the Fremen see him not as Paul, but as Muad’Dib. And Muad’Dib cannot be stopped, certainly not by the machinations of the Harkonnens, nor by their masters, Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV and the powerful trade group Choam.
Okay, that might be a very extra way to start a production update, but it’s hard not to think of the battle between creatives and business people in grand terms during this moment for the industry and in regards to Dune. For months now, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild have been on strike,...
Okay, that might be a very extra way to start a production update, but it’s hard not to think of the battle between creatives and business people in grand terms during this moment for the industry and in regards to Dune. For months now, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild have been on strike,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Near the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of the musical 1776, a cast made entirely of actors who identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, with multiple representations of race and ethnicity, step into the gold-buckled shoes, literally, of the men who would come to be called the founding fathers. We can only imagine how things might turn out differently, both for the musical and in some alternate real-life universe.
In some ways, not much changes. Members of the Continental Congress still bicker, fight and ever so slowly hash out the details of what will become the Declaration of Independence. Slavery will remain enshrined in both the document and the new nation, and the musical’s rousing Sherman Edwards score is as vibrant and pleasing as ever.
What’s different, of course, are the voices singing those songs and hashing those historical details, and in that, at least,...
In some ways, not much changes. Members of the Continental Congress still bicker, fight and ever so slowly hash out the details of what will become the Declaration of Independence. Slavery will remain enshrined in both the document and the new nation, and the musical’s rousing Sherman Edwards score is as vibrant and pleasing as ever.
What’s different, of course, are the voices singing those songs and hashing those historical details, and in that, at least,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Tokischa is dembow's renaissance woman. In a short amount of time, her message of liberation has left a mark on the music industry. While she has always been an artist, Tokischa fell in love with music while doing a photoshoot for a magazine, where she met producer Raymi Paulus. Palaus asked her to step into the studio, and Tokischa recorded her first song. "Since I [could remember], I wanted to do art. Dancing, acting, writing, drawing, fashion - everything related to art. I was always learning and always seeking that world," Tokischa tells Popsugar.
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In a short span of time, Tokischa has positioned herself as a musical force to be reckoned with. She prides herself on speaking on the trials and tribulations of being from the hood of the Dominican Republic. "I talk explicitly [about] what's going on in the bajo mundo.
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In a short span of time, Tokischa has positioned herself as a musical force to be reckoned with. She prides herself on speaking on the trials and tribulations of being from the hood of the Dominican Republic. "I talk explicitly [about] what's going on in the bajo mundo.
- 9/15/2022
- by Kimmy Dole
- Popsugar.com
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