VIDEO: WAITRESS' Keala Settle Sings Of Finding Hope In Every Bad Situation

Broadway audiences began taking notice of Keala Settle in 2013 when she took a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her performance in the short-lived HANDS ON A HARDBODY.

Her comic chops were then put to good use as Madame Thénardier in LES MISERABLES, but nowadays she's really knocking out the crowds at WAITRESS as the tough buT Loving Becky, who gets the second act off to a rousing start with her solo "I Didn't Plan It."

In a video shot during the original cast recording session, Settle tells how she loves singing composer/lyricist Sara Bareilles' show-stopper about reaching for the hope in every bad situation.

WAITRESS, which was nominated for four Tony Awards this year, opened in April at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after a sold-out limited engagement at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Based on the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, Waitress is the first Broadway musical in history to have four women in the four top creative team spots, with book by Jessie Nelson, score by five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, choreography by Lorin Latarro and direction by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus.

In Waitress, Jenna is a server 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.