Waitress Cast Recording
Waitress Cast Recording
#1Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 1:47am
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Updated On: 6/3/16 at 01:47 AM
#2Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 2:07am
Can't wait for this to come out, luckily the CD pre-order page has at last gone up on Amazon.
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#3Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 2:27am
Really enjoying "She Used to Be Mine". I don't know anything else about the show or score, but between this song, and the scores of Bright Star, American Psycho and Hamilton (at the very least), this season seems to have been a pretty strong one for new music! I love that all of these scores are also sound so different from each other.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#4Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 2:30am
I didn't see it posted anywhere on these boards yet, but the first 100 people to buy tickets at the box office on Tuesday get an advance physical copy of the cast recording with purchase!
#5Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 3:36am
Amazon lists the CD as available July 1. Is there usually a month between? (I'm impatient! But will wait.)
#6Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 4:01am
I've noticed that usually it is about a month gap from digital to physical releases for cast recordings.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#8Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 10:39am
If you're looking for the digital option for Waitress on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G6LU6G4?ie=UTF8&keywords=waitress&qid=1464446225&ref_=sr_1_1&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249098011&s=dmusic&sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0
Same deal as iTunes - you get "She Used To Be Mine" and then the rest later this week when the album drops.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#9Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 6:11pm
I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be sung this way, but at 3:20 Jessie's voice is a little shaky and unnatural when she belts "she used to be MIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE." It is really strange because I saw the show three times and just rewatched the clip from rehearsal, and Jessie always nailed this part perfectly.
Updated On: 5/28/16 at 06:11 PM
#10Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 6:32pm
I think she sounds great. BTW the song is up on youtube and spotify.
Updated On: 5/28/16 at 06:32 PM
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#11Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 6:35pm
She sounds good but she sounds more throaty and country on this recording.
I love her though.
#12Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 7:49pm
I don't notice anything off about the "mine" at the 3:20 mark but I think this sounds a bit different from the way it does in performance. She sounds great and I think they did go for a more country feel - she sort of stayed in the character's accent but didn't have to do a stage cry while singing it so it sounds purer. It's a beautiful recording and it's different from Sara's but equally powerful.
I can't wait to hear What Baking Can Do. I might be in the minority but I was so glad Bareilles morphed Door Number 3 into this. I liked that song but What Baking does so much more to set up the storyline and gives Jenna a better "i want" song. It's also a real powerhouse song for Jessie.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
playbill-love
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/13
#13Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/28/16 at 11:37pm
I have had the Sara Bareillis EP with songs from the show, as well as the single track from the OBCR, on repeat since I saw the show a week ago. Can't wait for the full album!!!
#14Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/29/16 at 12:46am
I'm most excited for "What Baking Can" do as well. I was really bummed when I heard "Door Number Three" was cut but having heard both I know why.
"Door Number Three" is a Sara Bareilles pop song but "What Baking Can" is a musical theatre song written for the character of Jenna.
Also excited for Kimiko Glenn's "When He Sees Me."
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#15Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/31/16 at 10:04pm
Did anybody get the preview CD today?
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#17Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 5/31/16 at 10:12pm
The first 100 people to buy tickets got a free early preview copy of the CD today.
https://www.facebook.com/waitressmusical/photos/a.984234801596888.1073741828.838163752870661/1131394003547633/?type=3&theater
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#18Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 12:48am
It's now available in digital form! What Baking Can Do is infinite times better than Door Number Three!
playbill-love
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/13
#19Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 1:06am
I listened the second it popped up on Apple Music and I'm in love
#20Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 1:33am
It's also on Spotify. It's really beautiful. What an odd score. I can't seem to find anything to compare it to.
#21Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 1:40am
Dancingthrulife2 said: "It's now available in digital form! What Baking Can Do is infinite times better than Door Number Three!"
I disagree because I couldn't understand most of what she was saying. I found the sound on the recording to be pretty muddled, was it possibly my iTunes / equalizer preferences?
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
seahag2
Featured Actor Joined: 2/15/15
#22Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 1:43am
The southern twang really grows on you :)
so I smile like Mona Lisa and I lay my Visa down
#23Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 3:05am
I didn't find it indistinguishable at all but I will say the mix does sound a little weird. Not a baaaad mix but not the norm.
Either was it's a really great recording of an interesting new score. If the-show-that-must-not-be-named wasn't around it would be a really interesting race for best score. I hope Bareilles continues writing for the theatre, I love this score but in it is fairly "basic" and by the books structurally. The material it is attached to isn't the finest either but that is true of other great scores like LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA and is another issue altogether.
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mailhandler777
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/15
#24Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 8:13am
While Bad Idea and Bad Idea(reprise) are my favorites in the show they are my least favorites on this. I guess because both songs are super funny and you don't get that from this.
What Baking Can Do and You Matter To Me are the closest to what's in the show.
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a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#25Waitress Cast Recording
Posted: 6/3/16 at 10:40am
I'm listening to "Preview All" in Apple right now on continual play 
. I will probably buy on Amazon once the CD becomes available so I can get both the disc and the digital.
The album is already #14 on Apple!! Pretty cool.
It sounds terrific, and it's interesting to hear the different takes of the songs after listening to Sara's CD over and over again. Jessie has such a different voice compared to other Broadway belters - I like it, and it really does fit this role well. It will be interesting to see what the producers do when Jessie decides to leave. Will they go for a more traditional type ala Laura Osnes, or something a little quirkier.
I agree with other posters that "What Baking Can Do" seems to fit the story well, despite Door Number Three being a great song in it's own right. Not crazy about It Only Takes a Taste, Take it From an Old Man and I Love You Like a Table (from the sample)... but perhaps they work better on stage.
