Tale of female emancipation gets a necessary post-interval lift There's a lovely, quietly subversive musical lurking somewhere in Waitress, and for extended passages in the second act that show is allowed to shine through. The flip side means putting up with an often coarse first act that seems to have taken its cue from its sister show in female emancipation, the Dolly Parton-scored 9 to 5, playing down the stre…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:31AM on March 8, 2019