The filmed performance of a hit Broadway production tops the DVD releases for the week of Feb. 6.
“Waitress: The Musical”: Recorded from a 2021 show, this stage version of the 2007 Keri Russell movie about a waitress who sees pie-baking as a road out of her troubles stars Sara Bareilles, who also wrote the music and lyrics.
“With a book by Jessie Nelson adapted from Adrienne Shelly’s film script, ‘Waitress’ has a humanizing matter-of-factness about tropes that other theatrical stories about women often idealize,” writes Los Angeles Times reporter Ashley Lee in a commentary piece. “In the world of ‘Waitress,’ much like our own, not every romantic relationship is an epic love story, and not every pregnancy feels like a miracle. And that’s OK.”
Also new on DVD
“Beyond Paradise: Season One”: This “Death in Paradise” spinoff relocates D.I. Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) from the Caribbean to the seemingly drowsy town of Shipton Abbott in England’s southwest.
