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What is more American than apple pie? A small-town waitress with a dream and the ingredients for success!

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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.

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

BOLD Series – Use code: ASLBOLD

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.

For sensory-friendly tickets, visit our website at paramountaurora.com and use code SENSORY for a 30% discount, OR call the Box Office.

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Paramount Theatre is happy to be part of the 2025 Chicago Theatre Week, offering $30 tickets for select performances of Waitress, Feb. 12 – 16 (Zone D). Use code CTW25 to redeem your offer. Buy tickets now.

Discount applicable only for select February 12-16 performances of Waitress. Limit 4 tickets per customer in Zone D. Not valid toward previous purchases. All sales final. No refunds or exchanges. Offer available online only, while supplies last. Expires 2/16/2025.

Meet the Cast

Michelle Lauto*

Jenna

Making Paramount debut.

David Moreland*

Dr. Pomatter*

Previously in The Full Monty.

Kelly Felthous*

Dawn

Previously in Cabaret.

Teressa LaGamba*

Becky

Previously in Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde, Groundhog Day, and Little Shop of Horrors.

Ian Paul Custer*

Earl

Previously in Fiddler on the Roof and Beautiful.

Jackson Evans*

Ogie (through 3/16)

Previously in Beauty and the Beast, School of Rock, and The Full Monty.

Nik Kmiecik*

Ogie (Beginning 3/19)

Previously in Once.

Jonah D. Winston*

Cal, u/s Joe

Previously in Frozen.

Ron E. Rains*

Joe

Previously in Cabaret, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, The Sound of Music, and Billy Elliot.

Laura Savage*

Francine, Ensemble, u/s Jenna, Dance Captain

Previously in Music Man, 42nd Street, Cats, Mary Poppins, and The Who’s Tommy.

Devon Hayakawa*

Ensemble, u/s Dawn

Previously in Fun Home and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Marta Bady*

Ensemble, u/s Becky

Previously in Into The Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Beautiful, and Frozen.

David Stobbe*

Ensemble u/s Earl, u/s Cal

Previously in The Full Monty.

Logan Becker*

Ensemble, u/s Ogie

Making Paramount debut.

Andrés Enriquez*

Ensemble, u/s Dr. Pomatter

Previously in School of Rock.

Sophie Grimm*

Nurse Norma, Jenna’s Mother, Ensemble

Previously in Les Miserables, A Christmas Story, Legally Blonde, Groundhog Day, The Sound of Music, and Into The Woods.

Anakin Jace White

Ensemble, Swing

Previously in Frozen.

Emma Ogea

Ensemble, Swing

Previously in Frozen.

Julianna Velez

Lulu, Young Jenna

Making Paramount debut.

Reese Bella

Lulu, Young Jenna

Making Paramount debut.

Artistic Team

Katie Spelman‡

Director & Choreographer

Emily Ann Brooks

Associate Director & Associate Choreographer

Celia Villacres

Music Director & Conductor

Kailey Rockwell

Associate Music Director & Associate Conductor

Scott Davis†

Scenic Designer

Mieka van der Ploeg†

Costume Designer

Eric Southern†

Lighting Designer

Adam Rosenthal

Sound Designer

Katie Cordts

Wig, Hair, & Makeup Designer

Ivy Thomas

Properties Designer

Ethan Deppe

Electronic Music Designer

Alyssa Vera Ramos

Intimacy Director

Susan Gosdick

Dialect Coach

Trent Stork, CSA

Casting Director

Jinni Pike*

Stage Manager

Lina Benich*

Assistant Stage Manager

Emma Franklin*

Assistant Stage Manager

Sean McNeely

Music Contractor

Kory Danielson

Music Supervisor

* indicates member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
† indicates member of United Scenic Artists (USA)
‡ indicates member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)

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