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Waitress

2024-25 Series

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January 16 - 27, 2025
Location
Missoula Children's Theatre
Run Time
Performance Run Time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with Intermission.
Rating / Age Recommendation
PG-13- Parental Guidance Recommended
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible

Book by JESSIE NELSON • Music and Lyrics by SARA BAREILLES

Based on the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
Orchestrations by Sara Bareilles and The Waitress Band

Music by Arrangement with Sony Music Publishing

A fresh-baked, piping hot pie could burn you if you’re careless. And yet, the delicious flavor is so satisfying it may change your life. Just ask Jenna, a waitress whose small-town existence and difficult marriage are a recipe for unhappiness. Her search for escape and happiness leads her to a relationship with little future as it threatens her reputation. Still, Jenna manages to find some sweetness in life throughout this bittersweet journey. The superb music score by Grammy-award-winner Sara Bareilles blends both heartache (“She Used to Be Mine”) and hope (“What Baking Can Do”). This regional premiere based on the 2007 non-musical film of the same name, Waitress: The Musical is poignant. It’s relatable, bitter as a lemon and sweet as a marshmallow pie. Entertainment Weekly called it “a little slice of heaven” and MCT is proud to serve up this extraordinarily popular musical that promises to stir your heart. You’ll most likely want to pick up a pie on the way home.

Waitress is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Please Be Advised: This production has a PG-13 rating for adult language and content which may be triggering for some audience members. This production uses a gluten-free rice flour.


Due to an overwhelming response to Waitress: The Musical, we’re is serving up one additional performance on Monday, January 27th at 7:30PM. Tickets are available now!


Cast and Crew


Jenna: Jadi Curtis
Dawn: Courtney Crary
Becky: Paisley Thornton
Dr. Pomatter: Nathan Poukish
Earl: Jon Miller*
Ogie: Marcus Milyko
Cal: Simon Fickinger
Joe: Scott McKenzie*

Lulu: Ella Collins, Nora Coolidge, Selma Schulzke

Ensemble:
Annika Charlson
Daniel Crary
Ellen McKenzie
Enrique Mendez
Scar Miyashita-Jaime*
Jalynn Nelson
Jessica Scales*
Brian Stoops

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