The run closed January 5, 2020
- Opened
- 2016
- Closed
- January 5, 2020
- Performances
- 1,544
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 11th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Waitress 2 more that season
| 2019 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2021 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Return-Engagement · Diane Paulus | 122 perf. |
Who was in it57 named
Thay Floyd
Jordin Sparks
Joe Cassidy
Chris Diamantopoulos
Benny Elledge
Noah Galvin
Steven Good
Todrick D Hall
David Josefsberg
Richard Kline
Larry Marshall
Joey Mcintyre
Bill Nolte
William Popp
Al Roker
Will Swenson
Ben Thompson
Joe Tippett
Steve Vinovich
Lee Wilkof
NaTasha Yvette Williams
Maia Nkenge Wilson
Alex Wyse
Mariam Bedigan
Regan Ciccarelli
Dayna Jarae Dantzler
Matt Deangelis
Keri Rene Fuller
London Skye Gilliam
Jessie Hooker Bailey
David Hughey
Molly Jobe
Anastacia McCleskey
Riley Summer Perler
Delaney Quinn
Sophia Rodriguez
Raigan Olivia Saunders Newton
Scarlett Sher
Dan Tracy
26 of these 57 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Sara Bareilles Jenna
David Hunter Dr. Pomatter
Charity Angél Dawson Becky
Lenne Klingaman Dawn
Dakin Matthews Joe
Jeremy Morse Ogie
Nick Bailey Earl
Eric Anderson Cal
Kelly Agbowu Nurse Norma
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Diane Paulus
- Choreographer
- Lorin Latarro
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Waitress is a musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson. It is based on the 2007 film, 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 with Earl's child, she begins an affair with her obstetrician, Jim Pomatter. Looking for ways out of her troubles, and at the urging of her friends, she enters a pie-baking contest, seeing its grand prize as her chance. After a tryout at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August 2015, Waitress premiered at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway in April…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Waitress at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.