Carrie Hope Fletcher will star as Jenna when Broadway and West End hit Waitress returns to tour the UK and Ireland early next year.
Currently playing the title role in the UK & Ireland tour of Calamity Jane, Fletcher (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, The Addams Family, UK and Ireland tour) will swap her six-guns for pies when the second tour launches at the New Wimbledon Theatre from 28 March 2026.
The first major West End musical to boast an all-female creative team Waitress opened at London’s Adelphi Theatre in March 2019. Featuring a book by Jessie Nelson and music and lyrics by award-winning singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles, the musical is directed by Tony Award winner Diana Paulus with choreography by Lorin Latarro.
Inspired by Adrienne Shelley’s 2007 film Waitress, the musical tale of love friendship and perfect pies opened on Broadway in 2016. A hit with audiences and critics alike the show was nominated for four Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical; two Drama League Award Nominations, including Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical; six Drama Desk Nominations, including Outstanding Musical; and four Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical.
Waitress began previews in the US in August 2015 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before transferring to Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre in March 2016. The show has gone on to global success with further productions in North America and Japan, Holland, a French language production in Canada and a Spanish language production is currently playing in Mexico.
The UK and Ireland tour is produced by Barry and Fran Weissler and David Ian Productions.
Angela Thomas
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