Like a great baked good,Waitressis full of layerssome sweeter than others.
I can’t even tell you the karma of this show, Bareilles tellsGlamourover Zoom.
I feel like Adrienne Shelly is working the puppet strings from beyond.
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Beyond that, Bareilles is excited to sharethisstory.
For me, some of the greatest loves of my life are my close friends.
Glamour:What were some of the biggest changes in the filmed version?
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I noticed theres a real, live baby.
Sara Bareilles:Overall, we really made great efforts to keep it [the same].
There were discussions: Where does it need to be edited differently?
Do we need to lose certain things?
And we were all feeling like we really want to preserve what is happening inside those four walls.
The addition of the baby was an incredible stroke of genius in my opinion, from our director Diane.
It made it so emotional.
She was, I want to say, two months old.
it’s possible for you to shoot a baby for 20 minutes.
Whats your favorite moment to perform in the show?
That theme of the show feels so present in that scene.
And I really love singing She Used to Be Mine.
Rewinding a little, some people might not remember that you actually werent the original Jenna onstage.
Was it surreal stepping into that role?
Yes, very much so.
By that time, were six years into the development of the show.
The people onstage are some of my closest friends, the crew, the band.
It is a legitimate family at this point.
And I was at the theater all the time, and I was like, Could I possibly?
It’s just changed everything for the better.
Do you feel like that is especially prescient right now?
Oh my God, yes.
It really toes the line.
In my interpretation, this is really a movie about choice.
And it’s a hard decision.
I never say never.
Certainly I think I could see that happening at some point.
There’s no discussion of it at the moment.
Shifting gears a little bit, I really appreciatedyour postsa few weeks ago about beauty standards.
What prompted you to speak about that to your followers?
I’ve done a lot of introspection over the last few years.
I’m prone to anxiety and depression.
It has been so deeply helpful and such a saving grace.
But I was very resistant.
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So the stress of trying to conceal this completely natural evolution and this natural stage is just fucked up.
And I have good days and I have bad days.
I certainly was having a bad day when I was posting on Instagram….
So it’s not easy, but I’m trying to embrace aging.
And I’m trying to be honest about the fact that it’s not one way or the other.
It is always both.
And I want to talk about it because it makes me feel better.
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.
