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Sara Bareilles has written an emotional goodbye to her Broadway musical Waitress after it abruptly closed without the cast getting to have a final performance.

The musical was scheduled to run until January 9, but it was announced tonight that the show played its final performance December 22. After the cancellation of the December 23 performance, it was decided that the show could not continue running due to positive cases of COVID detected in the company and crew.

The show’s final cast was led by Broadway veterans Ciara Renee and Joshua Henry.

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More bad news for Broadway.

The musical Waitress, featuring music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, has announced an abrupt closing notice amid the surge of the Omicron variant in New York City.

This is the second show to announce an abrupt closing due to the variant.

“We are heartbroken to announce that Waitress on Broadway will be closing effective immediately,” the show’s social media team announced on Thursday evening (December 23) in a series of tweets.

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Many of Broadway’s biggest stars gathered in Times Square on Sunday (November 28) to honor the life and legacy of late composer Stephen Sondheim, two days after his death.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles and boyfriend Joe Tippett, Josh Groban, Laura Benanti, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and many more performers gathered on the iconic red steps in Duffy Square to perform the song “Sunday” from the Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George.

The event was produced by Erich Bergen, who just wrapped his third stint in the Broadway musical Waitress, and conducted by Michael J. Moritz.

More participants included Raul Esparaza, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Wilson Cruz, Brandon Uranowitz, Judy Kuhn, Hadestown stars Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada, Jagged Little Pill stars Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Morgan Dudley, and Heidi Blickenstaff, Six‘s Abby Mueller, Gossip Girl‘s Adam Chanler-Berat and Tavi Gevinson (who are both currently in the Assassins revival Off-Broadway), and Diana‘s Roe Hartrampf and Erin Davie.

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Jennifer Nettles is joining Waitress!

The 47-year-old country Sugarland superstar will take on the lead role of Jenna in Sara Bareilles‘ Broadway musical, People confirmed Thursday (September 23).

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Waitress is officially back on Broadway with composer Sara Bareilles in the lead role of Jenna!

The show officially closed in January 2020, but a return engagement is now on Broadway and the first performance back was on Thursday (September 2) in New York City.

Waitress‘ social media accounts have shared a video of the audience reacting to the moment when the lights went down and Sara appeared on stage for the first moment of the show.

Waitress and Hadestown are the first two musicals to return to Broadway since all shows shut down in March 2020.

After the show ended, Sara paid tribute to original cast member Nick Cordero, who passed away last year due to complications from COVID-19. His wife Amanda Kloots appeared on stage during the curtain call.

Amanda joked that a world record must have been set during the performance for the most standing ovations ever, including one before the show started!

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The Broadway musical Waitress is returning to the New York stage next week and the show will be honoring original cast member Nick Cordero with a special tribute in the production.

Nick, who passed away from COVID-19 complications last year, originated the role of Earl in the Broadway production back in 2016.

As you might remember, Nick had a song called “Live Your Life” and his wife Amanda Kloots asked her friends, family, and fans to play the song every night to send strength to Nick while he was in the hospital.

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The Apple TV+ series Little Voice, which was co-created by Sara Bareilles, has reportedly been canceled after just one season.

The news was buried in a Hollywood Reporter article about HBO Max passing on the upcoming Overlook series from J.J. Abrams. For those who don’t know, Abrams‘ production company Bad Robot was an executive producer on Little Voice.

The nine-episode first season of Little Voice premiered back in July 2020. The series followed Bess King (Brittany O’Grady), a uniquely talented performer struggling to fulfill her dreams while navigating rejection, love and complicated family issues. Also starring in the series were Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, and Shalini Bathina. In the season one finale, Sara made a cameo appearance as herself!

Brittany has been having big success following the release of the series. Her new HBO show The White Lotus is currently getting great reviews and she will star in the upcoming ABC series Epic, from the creators of Once Upon a Time.

Another Apple TV+ series was just announced to be getting a second season.