#Jenna Mueller

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(Warning: Wilfred (US) Season 4 Spoiler)

I am SO glad that Ryan didn't end up with Jenna. They were and would be such a terrible couple and I was so happy that the team did NOT make them end game. While them cuddling in bed was super cute, that was mostly done to the wonderful acting done by Elijah and Fiona (the forehead kiss??? Help?!).

Attraction does not equal a healthy relationship and throughout all the seasons the showrunners and the characters were so clear that Ryan was giving her too much and doing too much for her and that Jenna was aware of that and let it happen anyway. I don't think she doesn't care for him at all btw! She's a good, realistic character with flaws, as we all have. But he is a very giving person and friend (read: people pleaser and afraid of rejection and confrontation) and she clearly relies on him heavily for dogsitting, help with issues in her life, emotional support... It's giving heavy early The Big Bang Theory Penny and Leonard vibes.

And I also think it's a good message that a person struggling with mental health and loss should NOT hurry into a relationship. Ryan is clearly unwell and focusing on himself and his healing is so much better use of his time and energy than a relationship with someone who he'd try to please at every possible moment so that she doesn't leave. Having stable relationships and a support system does not have to include a partner, especially a new one. Him realizing that he idolized her was so important to help him let go.

Besides, I don't hate Drew and Jenna together. I actually think Drew deserves better. From all we know, his worst flaw is that he gets competitive in games. He is a very sweet, friendly guy who is trying his best.

So, in conclusion, I'm really glad that it went this way. Fiona and Elijah did such a good job with these characters and I love the end message: Don't settle, don't let yourself be walked over, be in a healthy, equally-giving relationship and maybe heal yourself before you take on problems of other people.

P. S.: The conclusion to the relationship to Amanda is so brilliant as well. Her being a mirror to him in their mental health journeys and choosing healing over love was such a good plotline. Refusing to be sucked back into the madness of Wilfred, something that Ryan hasn't been able to do for four seasons! I hope she's doing well, what a queen.

[enobariasteeth]

saw the Waitress pro-shot and I cried so hard I lost my eyelashes AND I got nauseous

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actually ykw here’s some more old art from like 2018-19 of jessie mueller

[comradesummers]

so i fell down a waitress rabbithole last week after i saw the original movie (which slaps btw) and then proceeded to listen to the cast album like five times and then watched like five different slime tutorials. anyway i’ve come to the conclusion that while sara bareilles’s jenna isn’t terrible, i just don’t think it’s the right part for her. she would, however, make a fantastic awkward lesbian pomatter.

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Bonnie and Clyde - Jessie Mueller (she/her) as Bonnie Parker, requested by anon

Birthday: February 20, 1983 (age 39)

Birth Place: Evanston, Illinois

Theatre credits: Jenna Hunterson (Waitress), Carole King (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Julie Jordan (Carousel), Marian Paroo (The Music Man), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Billie Bendix (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Mary Flynn (Merrily We Roll Along), Amalia Balash (She Loves Me), Natalie Haller (All Shook Up)

(Pictured on the right is Frances Mayli McCann, who played the role in the West End production)

Credits: Jacqueline Harriet, Richard Davenport

[omjitskailay]

Musicals that should be gay

Wicked: I mean this is the obvious one. Glinda and Elphie belong together and Fiyero can go fuck himself

Waitress: I'm telling you, I don't Sara Bareilles as Jenna, but imagine her as Dr. Jill Pomatter making out on the examination bed with Jessie Mueller...

Matilda: Ik its not in the original source material but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to have miss Honey and miss Phelps kiss at the end

Music Man: Mr H. H you can fuck right off because the main star of this musical deserves someone better than you and by better i do mean a girl

My Fair Lady: see above

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[gayfroggyfernycabbage]

any good obscure musical recs?? ive listened to like almost 400 musicals and i need some new ones

oh boy, oh boy, oh boy *rubbing hands together* i'm so glad you asked

my number 1 go-to rec is always "waitress" cause it's gotta be my favorite; it's my comfort musical, i know it's a little more mainstream but i've met a lot of people who just weren't interested enough to watch it, so if you fit into that category pLEASE DO

i think i'd also have to recommend "avenue q"; it's fucking funny, the whole show is done with puppets and the dude who wrote it purposefully hired people who had worked either on sesame street or the muppets, only on this show they're swearing up and down, talking about porn, racism and whatnot; gold mine.

i also love "35mm-a musical exhibition;" dude wrote a musical that makes you feel like you're walking down an photography exhibition and each song tells the story to a different picture. i've actually got a side blog ( @35mm-a-musical-exhibition ) with the pictures to each song cause they're so frickin hard to find??? i was like, why hasn't anyone just dug deep to find the pictures and compiled them all into one place yet?? meh, somebody's gotta do it so it might as well be me (that was a "spies are forever" reference if you didn't get; another great rec; it's a tin can brothers musical, that's made up of some starkid members, including joey richter)

i'm also a really big fan of "lizzie the musical;" i actually made a post hyping it up a while back; it's a rock horror lesbian musical. need i say any more?

now, this isn't really a new musical rec, cause since you said you've listened to almost 400 musicals i'm pretty sure you've heard of "into the woods," bUT lately i've been obssessed with the central park run they did and i'll talk about it for hours to anyone who gives me the chance. they did this shakespeare in the park kind of thing? in which the show is actually put on in the middle of the woods. the lady who plays the witch? my favorite witch up to date; donna murphy was actually the same person who voiced mother gothel in "tangled," which is basically the same role, right? further proving my point that she was born for this part. its so much creepier than any other production, not only because of visual elements but some details they added into some of the characters' representations and detail on the actual story. i do have to warn you tho, that they did not take the wolf's song to little red as a "subtle" reference to being a sexual predator, it's actually pretty explicit, so watch out if you've got any SA triggers. some other details include that amy adams (yes, giselle from "enchanted") plays the baker's wife, jessie mueller (yes, jenna from "waitress") plays cinderella and chip zien (yes, the baker from the original 1987 production of "into the woods") plays the mysterious man. it's so good. please watch it.

[ladysophiebeckett]

scrolled into some other kind of b’way drama in a comment section where I guess they might do a professional recording of ‘waitress’ and televise it (sell to a streamer) like ‘hamilton’ and that sara bareilles would reprise the main role—to which fighting ensued about how jessie mueller was the superior jenna bc bareilles was just ‘a pop singer’. and then somehow keri russell got thrown in as not good either even tho she doesn’t sing and also originated the character in the movie the musical is based on.

[taylor14firefly]

"Sugar And butter And flour And mother What's inside? Everyone wants to know what's inside And I always tell them But I feel more than words can say"

--Jenna (Jessie Mueller), "What's Inside," (from Waitress the musical, lyrics Sara Bareilles)

[leanstooneside]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

SOLANGE KNOWLES'S CREAMY BELLY

DAVID SPADE'S CREAMY BELLY

DAVID KATZENBERG'S CREAMY BELLY

BROOKE MUELLER'S CREAMY BELLY

WINONA RYDER'S CREAMY BELLY

CHACE CRAWFORD'S CREAMY BELLY

RACHEL MCADAMS'S CREAMY BELLY

LEONARDO DICAPRIO'S CREAMY BELLY

CANDICE ACCOLA'S CREAMY BELLY

KRIS ALLEN'S CREAMY BELLY

BENJAMIN MCKENZIE'S CREAMY BELLY

JENNA FISCHER'S CREAMY BELLY

USHER'S CREAMY BELLY

MARIA SHRIVER'S CREAMY BELLY

ZACH BRAFF'S CREAMY BELLY

RYAN REYNOLDS'S CREAMY BELLY

RANDY JACKSON'S CREAMY BELLY

KATE WALSH'S CREAMY BELLY

PRINCE'S CREAMY BELLY

DENIS LEARY'S CREAMY BELLY

JEFF LEWIS'S CREAMY BELLY

KATE MIDDLETON'S CREAMY BELLY

BARBARA WALTERS'S CREAMY BELLY

BRIDGET MOYNAHAN'S CREAMY BELLY

CHER'S CREAMY BELLY

JEN SCHEFFT'S CREAMY BELLY

AARON CARTER'S CREAMY BELLY

MARY-KATE OLSEN'S CREAMY BELLY

JAMES DENTON'S CREAMY BELLY

KRIS POLAHA'S CREAMY BELLY

CURTIS STONE'S CREAMY BELLY

JUSTIN THEROUX'S CREAMY BELLY

EMILY BLUNT'S CREAMY BELLY

RICK SALOMON'S CREAMY BELLY

JANET JACKSON'S CREAMY BELLY

JESSICA ALBA'S CREAMY BELLY

CAMILA ALVES'S CREAMY BELLY

BRUCE JENNER'S CREAMY BELLY

MARC ANTHONY'S CREAMY BELLY

SEAN PENN'S CREAMY BELLY

STACY KEIBLER'S CREAMY BELLY

ROSE BYRNE'S CREAMY BELLY

MEL GIBSON'S CREAMY BELLY

BEN STILLER'S CREAMY BELLY

PINK'S CREAMY BELLY

CHEYENNE KIMBALL'S CREAMY BELLY

FOO FIGHTERS'S CREAMY BELLY

ELTON JOHN'S CREAMY BELLY

BLAKE LEWIS'S CREAMY BELLY

SUSAN BOYLE'S CREAMY BELLY

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Lew Temple, Keri Russell, and Cheryl Hines in Waitress (2007). A musical stage version by Jessie Nelson with lyrics by Sarah Bareilles premiered in Cambridge, Mass. on Aug 19, 2015. It was seen on Broadway Apr 2016 to Jan 2020 with Jessie Mueller as Jenna.

[comradesummers]

fandom ask game - waitress?

thanks for giving me an opportunity to talk about my current hyperfixation

favorite character: jenna (i'm basic and predictable)

least favorite character: well obviously earl, but i'm supposed to hate him, so he's doing his job. if we're talking characters that i'm supposed to like but don't then ogie. fuck ogie.

brOTP: jenna, becky, and dawn

OTP: jenna/happiness and financial stability (but also lowkey jenna/becky)

OT3: idk there aren't that many characters to choose from. i guess jenna/becky/dawn would be funny. not sure that i actually want to see that though.

NOTP: obviously jenna/earl, but again, that's because i'm meant to read that relationship as abusive. dawn/ogie, on the other hand, is a relationship that i'm supposed to like but comes across really creepy

favorite storyline: so in the original film, there's no mention of jenna's dad at all, let alone any implication that he was abusive to her mother. i think the addition of this backstory really deepens jenna's character and further complicates her already complicated relationship with motherhood. it also turns her story into one about breaking the cycle of abuse, which i really appreciate.

least favorite storyline: have i mentioned that i hate ogie? i hated him in the movie too, but at least there there is some ambiguity about whether or not we're supposed to be rooting for him and dawn to be together. like dawn even says that she's only marrying him because she doesn't think anyone else wants her. and jenna is, at least initially, critical of the relationship. the wedding is still kind of presented uncritically, but it's something. in the show, they try to fix the creepiness by giving dawn and ogie things in common, but it only ends up reinforcing the idea that stalking is totally okay as long as you both like history or whatever. in trying to fix the source material they made it worse by further romanticizing ogie's behavior. they should have either completely rewritten that storyline from the ground up, and removed the creepy possessive stalking altogether, or just acknowledged that the relationship was weird and bad and weaved it into the themes of abuse and possessiveness that were already present in the text. i heard someone suggest that earl should've sang a dark reprise of "never ever getting rid of me" in act 2 and i think that would've actually been a brilliant way to illustrate how creepy and terrible that mindset is.

what I wish had happened but didn’t: over the course of like five years they never once cast a woman to play pomatter. absolutely criminal. give me an awkward lesbian doctor, preferably played by sara bareilles.

what happened that I wish hadn’t: i really dislike katherine mcphee's jenna. she is unbelievable generic (my top three jennas btw are jessie mueller, shoshana bean, and nicolette robinson)

[musical-dreamcasts]

Frozen - Abby Mueller (she/her) as Elsa and Jessie Mueller (she/her) as Anna, requested by anon

Birthday: February 1, 1981 (Abby, age 41); February 20, 1983 (Jessie, age 39)

Birth Place: Evanston, Illinois (both)

Theatre credits include: Abby: Jane Seymour (Six), Cathy Hiatt (The Last Five Years), Carole King (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Abigail Adams (1776), Ensemble/Understudy Rosalie Mullins (School of Rock), Mrs. Banks (Mary Poppins), Fantine (Les Misérables), Meg March (Little Women), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Rat Queen (Ratatousical)

Jessie: Jenna Hunterson (Waitress), Carole King (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Julie Jordan (Carousel), Marian Paroo (The Music Man), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Billie Bendix (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Mary Flynn (Merrily We Roll Along), Amalia Balash (She Loves Me), Natalie Haller (All Shook Up)

(Pictured on the right are Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon, who are currently playing the roles in the West End production)

Credits: Unknown, Johan Persson

Do not interact if you ship Els*nna.

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Wilfred 🐶🐶🐶

Guess I’m in progress of watching (almost) all Elijah Wood’s movies lol.

Just finished ss3 of this show but RYAN NEWMAN NEEDS A HUG pls he deserves happiness!

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i need a bad idea.