The original cast album of Sara Bareilles' Broadway musical Waitress is released as a physical CD July 8. (It was originally scheduled for July 1.)
The recording was released digitally June 3.
The musical, which opened April 24, stars Tony winner Jessie Mueller as a waitress and baker who longs to escape from a bad marriage.
Produced by five-time Grammy Award nominee Bareilles and Grammy Award nominee and noted producer/mixer Neal Avron, the album was recorded by DMI Soundtracks and is being distributed by Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation.
Here is the track list:
1. “What’s Inside”
2. “Opening Up”
3. “The Negative”
4. “What Baking Can Do”
5. “When He Sees Me”
6. “It Only Takes a Taste”
7. “You Will Still Be Mine”
8. “A Soft Place To Land”
9. “Never Ever Getting Rid of Me”
10. “Bad Idea”
11. “I Didn’t Plan It”
12. “Bad Idea” (Reprise)
13. “You Matter To Me”
14. “I Love You Like a Table”
15. “Take It From an Old Man”
16. “She Used to Be Mine”
17. “Everything Changes”
18. “Opening Up” (Finale)
Bareilles also recorded many of the songs on a concept album released in fall 2015.
Based upon the 2007 motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, Waitress claims to be the first Broadway musical in history to have four women in the four top creative team spots, with book by Jessie Nelson, score by Bareilles, choreography by Lorin Latarro and direction by Diane Paulus.
Waitress stars Tony Award winner Mueller as Jenna with Drama Desk nominee Eric Anderson (Cal), Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero (Earl), Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Tony Award nominee Keala Settle (Becky), Charity Angél Dawson, Thay Floyd, Henry Gottfried, Molly Hager, Aisha Jackson, Claire Keane, McKenna Keane, Max Kumangai, Jeremy Morse, Ragan Pharris, Stephanie Torns and Ryan Vasquez.
Tickets are available via Ticketmaster at (877) 250-2929 or Ticketmaster.com.
(Updated July 7, 2016)