NEW YORK (AP) β Jessie Mueller, last seen on Broadway as a King, is coming back as a waitress.
Theater producers Barry and Fran Weissler said Friday that the Tony Award-winning Mueller will star in the musical adaptation of the 2007 film “Waitress” with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles.
Mueller won the best leading actress in a musical Tony last year for playing Carole King in the musical “Beautiful.” Her new show plays the Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning in April. It previously played at American Repertory Theater at Harvard.
It will be directed by Diane Paulus, who has also helmed the recent revival of “Pippin” and the new “Finding Neverland.” Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics, is behind such hits as “King of Anything” and “Love Song.”
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