Arvada Center to serve up slice of popular musical 'Waitress' next season

Denver Gazette | John Moore | March 14, 2024

The Arvada Center’s 2024-25 theater season has five titles on it. But to many musical theater fans, it begins and ends with “Waitress,” a beloved story of female camaraderie – and pie.

The Arvada Center will become the first local company to stage its own version of the popular musical about a pregnant, unhappily married waitress named Jenna.

“We call Jenna ‘The Queen of Kindness and Goodness,’” said Jesse Nelson, who wrote the book to a musical best known for its score by pop superstar Sara Bareilles. “She knows how to take care of everybody but herself. She presents this sunny exterior, and she bakes these extraordinary pies, and she’s the only one who can handle the curmudgeonly customers. But she’s also living this very dark secret — this relationship she’s in that is really destroying her self-esteem, her hopes and her dreams.”

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