Waitress London looks forward to welcoming International bestselling artist and multi-Grammy-nominee Sara Bareilles (hit singles: 'Brave' and 'Love Story') making her West End debut, reunited with Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Gavin Creel (Book of Mormon and Mary Poppins) following their sold-out run in the musical on Broadway.
Sara and Gavin will star as Jenna and Dr Pomatter from 27th January 2020 for a strictly limited six-week run.
Sara and Gavin will star as Jenna and Dr Pomatter from 27th January 2020 for a strictly limited six-week run.
Sara Bareilles
first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her widely
successful hit Love Song, which reached No. 1 in 22 countries around the
world from her debut album Little Voice. Since then, Sara has
gone on to receive seven Grammy® nominations, two Tony nominations and
three Emmy nominations. Her book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song,
was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster and is a New
York Times bestseller. Making her Broadway debut, Sara composed the
music and lyrics for Waitress, and made her Broadway acting
debut in 2017 by stepping into the shows lead role.
Recently, Sara teamed up with Apple as an executive producer for Little
Voice a 10-episode series, which she will create the original music
for. On April 5, 2019 Sara released her fifth full-length and first
album of original material since 2013, entitled Amidst The Chaos, to
rave reviews. For this latest body of work, she joined forces in the
studio with legendary Academy® Award-winning producer T Bone Burnett.
As a result, the album spotlights her voice as a singer and storyteller
like never before, while making an enduring statement. She is currently
on her Amidst The Chaos North American tour.
Gavin Creel received a Tony Award for his performance as Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. He made his Broadway debut originating the role of Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie,
for which he received his first Tony Award nomination. He has since
created such memorable performances on Broadway as Claude in Hair, which earned him a second Tony Award nomination, Jean-Michel in La Cage Aux Folles, and Stephen Kodaly in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of She Loves Me,
which was filmed live and is available on BroadwayHD. No stranger to
London audiences, Gavin most notably originated the role of Elder Price
in the West End production of The Book of Mormon, for which he received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also starred as Bert in Disney’s Mary Poppins and reprised his performance as Claude in Hair. As well as starring opposite Sara Bareilles in the Broadway production of Waitress, his other stage credits include The Book of Mormon (on Broadway and originating the First National Tour), and the world premieres of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce (at The Goodman Theatre and The Kennedy Center) and Prometheus Bound at A.R.T. On television, Gavin co-starred alongside Julie Andrews in ABC’s Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime.
He has released three original albums GoodTimeNation, Quiet (which
landed on Billboard’s Top Heat Seekers) and Get Out, and his single
Noise raised money and awareness for marriage equality. Creel was a
co-founder of Broadway Impact, the first and only grassroots
organization to mobilize the nationwide theater community in support of
marriage equality. A native of Findlay, Ohio, he is a proud graduate of
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
Lucie Jones and David Hunter will return to the roles of Jenna and Dr Pomatter on 9 March.
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