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Joanna Ampil leads cast of 'Waitress' musical

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<div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/ATEGasia/photos/a.544653595657645/1685383508251309/?type=3&amp;theater" data-width="auto"> </div><p>MANILA -- Award-winning theater actress Joanna Ampil will star in Atlantis Theatrical&#x27;s production of the hit Broadway musical &quot;Waitress.&quot;</p><p>In a press conference on Tuesday, Ampil announced that she will be playing the musical&#x27;s lead character Jenna. </p><p>&quot;Waitress,&quot; with book by Jessie Nelson and music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, will be directed by Bobby Garcia, who handpicked Ampil for the role.</p><p>&quot;Finally, I&#x27;m giving back again to our Filipino audience and it&#x27;s a very, very especial show. Also it&#x27;s with one of my favorite directors Bobby Garcia. So, I&#x27;m really excited about this,&quot; said Ampil, who will be finishing her stint in the musical &quot;Cats&quot; in October and will come back to the country for &quot;Waitress.&quot;</p><p>&quot;&#x27;Waitress&#x27; is full of ingredients metaphorically and literally. It&#x27;s a show about woman empowerment, about mother and daughter relationship. It&#x27;s about friendship, about bonding and finding your strength back and knowing that it&#x27;s never too late to achieve what you deserve in life,&quot; explained Ampil. </p><p>&quot;Basically Jenna is this waitress who&#x27;s trapped in an abusive and loveless relationship with her husband. She got pregnant unexpectedly and also falls in love with her gynecologist. So the story is quite convoluted, a little bit. It&#x27;s her journey to find her strength back,&quot; she added.</p><p>Ampil admitted that she hasn&#x27;t seen the musical abroad and only heard the soundtrack, which attracted her to do the Atlantis Theatrical&#x27;s adaptation.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BnA35RcAQ_t/?utm_source=ig_embed" data-instgrm-version="9" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:28.194444444444443% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BnA35RcAQ_t/?utm_source=ig_embed" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Reyma Buan Deveza (@reymabd)</a> on <time dateTime="2018-08-28T07:17:05+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Aug 28, 2018 at 12:17am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://www.instagram.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>She also shared that she&#x27;s a fan of Beirelles and Garcia.</p><p>&quot;I watched the movie with Keri Russell and I read the script. I didn&#x27;t know anything about &#x27;Waitress&#x27; prior to Bobby asking me to do the role. After hearing the score of Sarah Bareilles, I am extremely excited because it&#x27;s very, very rich, very colorful characters. So it&#x27;s nice to be challenged again by something so enormous,&quot; Ampil said.<br/> <br/>Asked if she feels pressured doing the first-ever &quot;Waitress&quot; musical in the country, Ampil answered: &quot;There&#x27;s always pressure but I think it&#x27;s more of exciting than pressured. Because I know when Bobby puts up a show it&#x27;s always special and he always nails it. You know that it&#x27;s going to be of a certain standard. That&#x27;s why it is amazing to work or even train with Atlantis because of that standard.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Waitress&quot; will run from November 9 to December 2 at the RCBC Plaza. </p>

<p>Award-winning theater actress Joanna Ampil will star in Atlantis Theatrical's production of the hit Broadway musical "Waitress."</p>

Award-winning theater actress Joanna Ampil will star in Atlantis Theatrical's production of the hit Broadway musical "Waitress."