Katharine McPheeis dusting off her apron and returning to Broadway’sWaitressfor one final time.
The actress, 35, is heading back to the stage where she made her Broadway debut to reprise her role as Jenna for the last few weeks of the show’s Broadway run, PEOPLE exclusively confirmed.
McPhee, whostarred in the musical last Apriland made her West End debut inMarch 2019 for the UK premiere, will lead the New York company at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre from Nov. 25, 2019, through Jan. 5, 2020.
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Based on the Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 movie of the same name, the musical tells the story of a waitress named Jenna in a small town who enters a pie contest in hopes of using the prize money to escape her unhappy marriage.
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“I’ve waited a long time to do Broadway mostly because I wanted it to be a show that I connected to,” McPhee told PEOPLE before her Broadway debut. “I feltWaitresswas just that: really well-suited for me.”
“Being a fan of Sara for all of these years, I always hoped she’d write a musical,” McPhee said. “And now to be starring in her show that she wrote music and lyrics to is a total dream.”
Currently, the show stars anotherAmerican Idolalum —Jordin Sparks.
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The production marked Sparks’ second Broadway foray. The singer made her stage debut in 2010 as Nina inLin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed musicalIn the Heights.
source: people.com
