{"id":89942,"date":"2017-02-17T00:18:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89942"},"modified":"2017-02-17T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T05:18:43","slug":"sara-bareilles-to-soon-star-in-her-broadway-show-waitress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/17\/sara-bareilles-to-soon-star-in-her-broadway-show-waitress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles to soon star in her Broadway show &#8216;Waitress&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89943\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89943\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Bareilles' songwriting skills are all over the new Broadway musical \u201cWaitress\u201d \u2014and soon she will be, too. (Photo: Sara Bareilles\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/12654376_10153213397146432_2612600169962995963_n-768x766.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Bareilles&#8217; songwriting skills are all over the new Broadway musical \u201cWaitress\u201d \u2014and soon she will be, too. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarabareilles\/photos\/a.72557891431.89950.6922826431\/10153213397146432\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Sara Bareilles\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Sara Bareilles&#8217; songwriting skills are all over the new Broadway musical \u201cWaitress\u201d\u2014and soon she will be, too.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter of \u201cBrave\u201d and \u201cLove Song\u201d will make her Broadway acting debut on March 31 in the lead role of Jenna Hunterson. She&#8217;ll be in the show for 10 weeks until June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The musical tells the story of a waitress and pie maker trapped in a small-town diner and a loveless marriage. It&#8217;s adapted from a 2007 film starring Keri Russell. Bareilles will take over from Jessie Mueller, who won the best leading actress Tony Award for playing Carole King in the musical \u201cBeautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bareilles has already released her versions of the musical&#8217;s songs in \u201cWhat&#8217;s Inside: Songs From Waitress,\u201d including the standout single \u201cShe Used to Be Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She joins other composers who have gone into their own Broadway shows, including Sting in \u201cThe Last Ship\u201d and Green Day&#8217;s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who made several onstage visits to his show \u201cAmerican Idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Sara Bareilles&#8217; songwriting skills are all over the new Broadway musical \u201cWaitress\u201d\u2014and soon she will be, too. The singer-songwriter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[9779],"class_list":["post-89942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-sara-bareilles","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}