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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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
associatedWith Broadway NERFINISHED
Waitress Original Broadway Cast NERFINISHED
basedOn Waitress (2007 film) NERFINISHED
characterPerspective first-person
composer Sara Bareilles NERFINISHED
dramaticPositionInShow early in the musical
firstPerformer Jessie Mueller NERFINISHED
genre pop
show tune
language English
lyricalFocus desire for change in life
using baking to process emotions
lyricist Sara Bareilles NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Katharine McPhee NERFINISHED
Sara Bareilles NERFINISHED
Shoshana Bean NERFINISHED
originalProduction Waitress (Broadway production) NERFINISHED
originCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
partOf Waitress NERFINISHED
performedBy Jessie Mueller NERFINISHED
performedByCharacter Jenna Hunterson NERFINISHED
performedIn Waitress Original Broadway Cast recording NERFINISHED
setting Jenna’s workplace bakery
show Waitress NERFINISHED
theatricalContext Broadway musical
theme empowerment
frustration
hope
resilience
self-expression
usedAs audition song
standalone concert piece
vocalRange mezzo-soprano
writer Sara Bareilles NERFINISHED

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Waitress (musical) notableSong What Baking Can Do