What Baking Can Do

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"What Baking Can Do" is a heartfelt solo number from the Broadway musical "Waitress" in which the protagonist Jenna expresses her hopes, frustrations, and resilience through the metaphor of baking.

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What Baking Can Do canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
associatedWith Broadway
Waitress Original Broadway Cast
linked to: Waitress (musical)
basedOn Waitress (2007 film)
characterPerspective first-person
composer Sara Bareilles
dramaticPositionInShow early in the musical
firstPerformer Jessie Mueller
genre pop
show tune
language English
lyricalFocus desire for change in life
using baking to process emotions
lyricist Sara Bareilles
medium stage performance
metaphor baking as a metaphor for coping with life
baking as a metaphor for transformation
musicalWorkType solo number
narrativeFunction I want song
character song
notablePerformer Jessie Mueller
Katharine McPhee
Sara Bareilles
Shoshana Bean
originalProduction Waitress (Broadway production)
originCountry United States
partOf Waitress
linked to: Waitress (musical)
performedBy Jessie Mueller
performedByCharacter Jenna Hunterson
performedIn Waitress Original Broadway Cast recording
setting Jenna’s workplace bakery
show Waitress
theatricalContext Broadway musical
theme empowerment
frustration
hope
resilience
self-expression
usedAs audition song
standalone concert piece
vocalRange mezzo-soprano
writer Sara Bareilles

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Waitress (musical) notableSong What Baking Can Do
Jenna Hunterson sings What Baking Can Do
Jenna Hunterson associatedSong What Baking Can Do