This is used in moments of intense anger or intense pleasure, fantasizing leaving her husband or being with her lover, creating a fool’s paradise. The element of dance is added beautifully in a fully realized vision of light and movement. The choreography is fairly clean and simple, with dances only used to further imply when Jenna is daydreaming or to add movement to some of the more upbeat songs of the production. The change from realism to dance during Jenna’s fantasies is a bold and useful choice, clarifying the differences for the audience, and adding to the character. Reading a bit into this choice, it may be something of note that Jenna is usually being picked up and moved around the stage, like a pawn or prop. This may be to show that she is not in control, or perhaps that she cannot reach her goals on her own. Lorin Latarro’s choreography is smart and it adds to the beautiful environment “Waitress” already creates with its fun backdrop as an independent diner, checkerboard floors and all. The set uses light and fun colors to show a traditional 50’s style diner, which makes sense for its traditional chick-flick style of
This is used in moments of intense anger or intense pleasure, fantasizing leaving her husband or being with her lover, creating a fool’s paradise. The element of dance is added beautifully in a fully realized vision of light and movement. The choreography is fairly clean and simple, with dances only used to further imply when Jenna is daydreaming or to add movement to some of the more upbeat songs of the production. The change from realism to dance during Jenna’s fantasies is a bold and useful choice, clarifying the differences for the audience, and adding to the character. Reading a bit into this choice, it may be something of note that Jenna is usually being picked up and moved around the stage, like a pawn or prop. This may be to show that she is not in control, or perhaps that she cannot reach her goals on her own. Lorin Latarro’s choreography is smart and it adds to the beautiful environment “Waitress” already creates with its fun backdrop as an independent diner, checkerboard floors and all. The set uses light and fun colors to show a traditional 50’s style diner, which makes sense for its traditional chick-flick style of