Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles stopped by this morning's TODAY to chat about her new album, "What's Inside: Songs from Waitress," out today. The songs on the album are from the upcoming Broadway show Waitress which she wrote the music and lyrics for. Bareilles talks about the process of composing the album and her return to her roots in musical theater. Watch the appearance below and click here to watch her performance of 'She Used to Be Mine' from the upcoming musical.
The new musical
Waitress opens on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at the
Brooks Atkinson Theatre with previews starting on Friday, March 25, 2016.
Waitress recently played a sold out limited engagement at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
The Broadway production stars
Jessie Mueller, winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best
Actress in a Musical for Beautiful: The
Carole KingMusical. Based on the 2007 motion picture written by
Adrienne Shelly, the new musical has a book by
Jessie Nelson, music and lyrics by five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter
Sara Bareilles and direction by Tony Award-winner
Diane Paulus.
Waitress is the first Broadway musical in 25 years to feature book, score and direction by women.
Bareilles releases her new studio album, What's Inside: Songs from
Waitress, today Friday, November 6 on Epic Records.
The Broadway cast will include
Eric Anderson (South Pacific, Kinky Boots, Rocky, The Last Ship) as Cal,
Christopher Fitzgerald (Chicago, two-time Tony Award nominee for Young Frankenstein and Finian's Rainbow) as Ogie,
Drew Gehling (Jersey Boys, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) as Dr. Pomatter,
Kimiko Glenn("Orange Is The New Black," Spring Awakening, Love's Labour's Lost) as Dawn,
Dakin Matthews (The Audience Rocky, The Best Man) as Joe and
Keala Settle (LES MISERABLES, Tony Award-nominee for Hands On A Hard Body) as Becky, with ensemble members Charity Angél Dawson,
Jeremy Morse and
Stephanie Torns. Additional casting will be announced soon.
Jenna (
Jessie Mueller) is a
Waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears she may have to abandon the dream of opening her own pie shop forever... until a baking
CONTEST in a nearby county and the town's handsome new doctor offer her a tempting recipe for happiness. Supported by her quirky crew of fellow
Waitresses and loyal customers, Jenna summons the secret ingredient she's been missing all along - courage.
