Sara Bareilles is adapting Meg Voltizer’s Curiosities.
Sara Bareilles no problem getting inspiration I’m Wolitzer2013 coming of age novel, It’s interesting.
After winning Best Original Score, Tony nods Waitress in 2016, 44-year-old Bareil signed a contract to create a musical adaptation It’s interestingwhich is currently in the workshop stage. Playwright, Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl writes a book.
“I read it so fast,” Barey said Us Weekly in Nov. Wolitzer’s novel. “It’s only been a couple of days and I can’t believe how bright and alive the world seems to me.”
Both Waitress and It’s interesting show characters who feel far removed from the younger, more ambitious versions of themselves, but Bareilly noted that the latter has a “sophistication” that the Waitress.
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“(These characters) are hyper-intelligent, while Waitress it’s about a small community, (a) southern town down under,” she explained. “These are New York intellectuals. So I think music (for It’s interesting) reflects that a bit.”
For Bareilly, the “biggest challenge” of the project was “trying to distill and condense” the 560-page novel into a single musical.
“We’re not doing a six-hour show. They do, but we are not trying to make such a show for this book,” she said. “We’re trying to make sure that what comes out is the juiciest bits of that novel, knowing that nothing (we do) is really going to contain everything that that novel contains. And I will always recommend that people – whether you like musicals or not – go read this book. I think the book is special.”
It’s interesting tells the story of a group of friends who meet as teenagers at an art camp in 1974. The novel’s central character, Jules, sees herself as less than perfect than her peers, and this insecurity follows her into adulthood as she romanticizes the lives and marriage of her old friends Ash and Ethan.
Bareilly said she “felt so close” to the book’s characters, particularly Jules.
“(She) has a bit of Peter Pan syndrome. I think we see this trope a lot with men, and I don’t know if we see it a lot with women, where they just have a hard time letting go of their ambitions and their hopes for their young selves,” she explained. . “This is a topic that is very important Waitressand that’s something I struggle with quite often in my life as well.’
Jules’ tendency to dream of green grass affects her husband, Dennis, who can’t help but wonder if her life will be enough for her. Bareilles explored this conflict in a song called “Enough,” written from Dennis’ point of view.
When it comes to creating a new Broadway musical, producers find inspiration in all sorts of places, including beloved movies. In April 2018, Tina Fey premiered her musical version of the hit song Mean Girls.
“I wrote ‘Enough’ before I even finished the book,” Bareil said. “I was really moved by the character of Dennis and the themes that came up in childhood and growing up and what is enough and when can we be satisfied with what we have?”
The jury is still out on whether Bareilles will join the cast It’s interesting. (So far Jesse Mueller the lead role of Jenna was born WaitressBareilly played the role both on Broadway and in London’s West End.)
“Right now, I think the only hat I can wear is just being a songwriter and (trying to) help put the pieces of the puzzle together,” the singer-songwriter said. “But I mean, I like the idea of getting back on stage.”
However, Bareilles performed “Enough” during three concerts at the Kennedy Center in September, accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra. Performances were filmed for PBS’ Next to the Kennedy Center series, and special — the title Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra and Friends – the premiere will take place on December 31.
“It’s a completely new experience for my audience to hear my work interpreted with the unusual touch of a giant orchestra,” Bareil said of the show. “It was scary in the sense that we wanted to get it right and pick songs that would sound really nice (with) the orchestra.”
The program features special guests Rufus Wainwright, Emily King and David Ryan Harris and covers different periods of Bareilly’s work. Favorites including “Love Song,” “Gravity,” “King of Anything” and “Brave” made the set list, along with some deeper cuts and a couple Waitress melodies.
“It’s really a luxury to be swimming in all the music of my life,” Bareilles said. “It was just an unforgettable experience.”
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The prolific songwriter is also adding more music to his songbook. She is currently working on her seventh studio album.
“I write a lot about grief,” said Bareilly, whose friend Gavin Creel died at the age of 48 in September, two months after being diagnosed with metastatic melanotic sarcoma of the peripheral nerve sheath, a rare form of cancer. The couple shared the stage in both Waitress and 2022 revival of To the forest.
“I recently lost a dear friend (and) lost another friend in 2020. “I didn’t write for the record before the pandemic,” Barei said. “I think in terms of my spiritual metabolism, I’m pretty slow. I know a lot of people who made a lot of music during and around the pandemic, and I just didn’t do anything. So, I think now I’m sort of processing that chapter of my life – the isolation and the grief and the loss.”
While Bareilly assured fans that the record “won’t be desperately sad,” she believes it’s important to leave room for “uncomfortable” themes.
“It’s not something our culture supports very well. I think we do a lot of escapism – which I think we need too; I don’t think it’s free, but I do think there’s merit in going to dark places and resting there and really processing what’s going on there,” she said. “It’s not like any other record I’ve written. It’s kind of all over the place and it’s not formulaic. It feels like I’m just telling stories that need to be told.”
Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra and Friends will air on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app on Tuesday, December 31 at 8pm ET.
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