The first screenplay Jessie Nelson ever wrote was about a group of waitresses, a job she herself held for 10 years. But after the script was handed off to a team of men, they reworked it to make it "more and more misogynistic," she said, and the script never made it to the screen. Two years ago, Nelson's agent found out that the 2007 movie "Waitress" was being turned into a musical, and Nelson pitched her ideas. This…
SOURCE: fivethirtyeight.com at 04:01PM on March 26, 2016