The musical Waitress,
similar to this blog, is about a woman’s
life journey. Unlike me, who struggles
with cooking and baking, Jenna is an expert pie baker who used this delicious
skill to cope with a burnt life in a small town. Jenna and her two friends, Becky and Dawn, are
waitresses who through friendship and love eventually savor the flavors of a better life
(culinary puns are intended).
Reflection
Waitress
is based
on the book (Jessie Nelson) and the movie with the same name. Just like Jenna’s
pies, it is filled with scrumptious
music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles (Love Song).
I will try to tone down the food references but it is hard to do, when in the opening song, What's Inside, Jenna (Desi Oakley) explained that she “bakes from the heart” and that her whole life is in her recipes. What Baking Can Do is act as her conduit for coping and escaping. She sings,“I will serve my worries away. I’ve done it before. I bake me a door to get through.” Many of us can relate to finding our own way of coping through the bumps of life. I write and blog and Jenna bakes pies!
I will try to tone down the food references but it is hard to do, when in the opening song, What's Inside, Jenna (Desi Oakley) explained that she “bakes from the heart” and that her whole life is in her recipes. What Baking Can Do is act as her conduit for coping and escaping. She sings,“I will serve my worries away. I’ve done it before. I bake me a door to get through.” Many of us can relate to finding our own way of coping through the bumps of life. I write and blog and Jenna bakes pies!
Jenna baked as she felt trapped by her life with her husband, Earl (Nick Bailey), a man who possesses but does not love. He reinforced this in the
song, You Will Still Be Mine after he learned
that Jenna was pregnant.
Even though life can be messy, Jenna, Becky, and Dawn all found their own path through it. Dawn found it though on line dating where she met Ogie (Jim Hogan), who was the “lid to her pot”, and Jenna and Dawn found it though affairs.
Even though life can be messy, Jenna, Becky, and Dawn all found their own path through it. Dawn found it though on line dating where she met Ogie (Jim Hogan), who was the “lid to her pot”, and Jenna and Dawn found it though affairs.
The song, She Used to Be Mine, was a heartfelt reminder that life can give you a beating. Jenna sang, “when you are not who you used to be, when
she is gone but she used to be mine.” However you can find the power to change when, Everything Changes, and in instant you are a mother and you’re
“both born”.
Waitress
with its powerful musical lyrics takes us on a
palatable journey through life that from time to time can be a little tart. In Waitress,
like baking or enjoying a succulent pie, we taste the flavors and savor the joys of life that we can
choose to create.
(Listen to Waitress sound track here)
(Listen to Waitress sound track here)
Spiritual Reference
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)