What is more American than apple pie? A small-town waitress with a dream and the ingredients for success!
Subscriptions on sale Monday, February 5, 2024.
Single tickets on sale June 2024.
Lobby doors open one hour prior to performance.
Content Warning: Adult language and content, and domestic abuse.
Waitress
The Regional Premiere!
What is more American than apple pie? A small-town waitress with a dream and the ingredients for success! Sugar, butter, flour. These aren’t the only ingredients Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, uses to make her famous pies. Stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage, Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant, and then finds acceptance and love in the most unexpected place.
Hoping to bake her way out of her troubles, she puts her heart and soul into her unique pies, winning over anyone who tastes them. But while battling expectations and self-esteem issues, Jenna’s delicious pies reflect her state of mind with names like I Hate My Husband Pie, and Pregnant, Miserable, Self-Pitying Loser Pie. Each of us will find something relatable in Jenna’s struggles and triumphs.
Full of romance and the joy of an uninhibited fling, Waitress challenges the story of a pregnant woman trapped in a small town between the life she’s living and the life she wants. Her customers, co-workers, and the town’s handsome new doctor may all offer her conflicting recipes for happiness, but only Jenna can do the soul-searching to decide for herself what the right ingredients are for her own happiness. Want to know her secret recipe?
Based on the 2007 film by the same name, with lyrics and music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee, Sara Bareilles. Nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score!
The playlist includes “Sugar, Butter, Flour,” “What Baking Can Do,” “Club Knocked Up” and romantic tunes such as “It Only Takes a Taste” and “When He Sees Me.”
Book by JESSIE NELSON Music and Lyrics by SARA BAREILLES
Based upon the motion picture written by ADRIENNE SHELLY
Contact the Box Office or check website for content advisories, if any. WAITRESS Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Accessibility Performances
Audio described performances
Audio description is a voice-over service provided via headset for people who are visually impaired, allowing them to sit anywhere in the audience and enjoy the performance. Commentary and narration are provided to assist the listener in understanding the visual elements of the show, from descriptions of facial expressions to explanations about props, costumes, lighting, scenery and more.
- Frozen The Broadway Musical: Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
*Due to a limited number of headsets, please inform the Box Office when you purchase tickets if you will require an audio description headset for the performance.
Open Captioned Performances
The open captioning setup includes a LED screen close to the stage. Purchase tickets to these performances online, over the phone or in person. Standard ticket prices apply.
- The Full Monty: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 7 p.m.
- Frozen The Broadway Musical: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.
- Waitress: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.
- Cats: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 7 p.m.
American Sign Language Interpreted
There will be two certified sign interpreters translating all dialogue and lyrics into American Sign Language.
Broadway Series – Use code: ASLPARAMOUNT
- The Full Monty: Friday, October 4, 2024 at 8 p.m.
- Frozen The Broadway Musical: Friday, January 10, 2025 at 7 p.m.
- Waitress: Friday, March 28, 2025 at 8 p.m.
- Cats: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 8 p.m.
BOLD Series – Use code: ASLBOLD
- Peter and the Starcatcher: Friday, August 30, 2024 at 8 p.m.
- An Act of God: Friday, November 8, 2024 at 8 p.m.
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Friday, April 18, 2025 at 8 p.m.
For tickets ($30), visit our website at paramountaurora.com and use the promotional codes, OR email mariew@paramountarts.com.
Sensory-Friendly Performance
Sensory-friendly/relaxed performances are designed to create a performing arts experience that is intended for patrons who have autism or other social, cognitive and physical challenges that create sensory sensitivities and their families.
- Frozen The Broadway Musical: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 7 p.m.
For sensory-friendly tickets, visit our website at paramountaurora.com and use code SENSORY, OR call the Box Office.