"When I think about my time in London doing this show, it was a literal dream come true." said Bareilles, who wrote and starred in the show's original Broadway and West End run. "I was living in a little flat in Covent Garden, going to work every day with all these people that I fell madly in love with and my best friend. I was having like an out of body experience.
"Then COVID happened and the world went to hell... so we didn't have a strong finish."
This joyful show follows a pie-maker called Jenna who longs for a way to escape her loveless marriage, when a baking contest in a nearby town presents her with the perfect opportunity.
Originally based on the 2007 film, it's loved among theatre fans for its portrayal of friendship and womanhood, which Bareilles says was a "radically feminist" act at the time.
As for why this is important, she continued: "Friendship is the other great love of your life. We spend a lot of time in storytelling and in music, excavating romantic love, but I think friendship is as rich and complicated and nuanced as any, if not more than any relationship I've been in."
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Now though, the artist is keen to channel her grief into her art. Her seventh studio album is currently in the works, with the first song teased to fans in March. The track, titled Home, was inspired by a conversation between US talk show host Stephen Colbert and journalist Anderson Cooper that centred around loss and storytelling.
"The bigness of that experience impacted me in a lot of ways. I went through the personal loss of two of my very best friends to cancer a few years apart, I've been on a fertility journey, and so it's just, there's been a lot."
She continued: "And I feel a lot of grief around the American identity and what we're watching our administration put on this world, so all of that is in this record.
Alongside her album, theatre fans will be eagerly awaiting news of her new musical The Interestings, which is set for a 2027 premiere in the US. Based on Meg Wolitzer's bestselling novel of the same name, the story follows a group of friends from teenage-hood in the '70s to middle age. The novel came out in 2013 and Bareilles said the first song had come into her mind before she even finished the book.
"It's got all the complexities, left turns, childhood aches, jealousies and loss and grief that comes with growing up and it's just an incredible expansive story. It's one of the most hilarious and poignant novels I've ever read. So I have loved bringing this to life. It's really funny and so touching."
"The world feels really scary and hard, and it doesn't even have to be thought of as a place to escape to, but a place to be reminded that these other qualities still exist. The hope, the resilience, the community, the gathering, the joy, the laughter, that's all still here too.
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