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Our guest Sarah Barellis is nominated for a Tony for Best Performance by Elite

Actress in the Musical for her performance in the Broadway revival of the 1987

Sondheim musical Into the Woods.

She played the Baker's Wife, the revival's cast recording when a Grammy earlier this year.

Sarah Barellis spoke with Fresh Air's Anne Marie Boldenara.

As a singer-songwriter, Sarah Barellis has sold millions of records and has had hits like Love's

Song from 2007 and the Pop Anthem Brave from 2013. She's won Grammys and Turd the World many times

over but her career continues to take interesting and inspired turns. About 10 years ago,

she wrote the songs for Waitress, a musical adaptation of the independent film.

She went on to star as the lead in that show, making her Broadway debut in 2017.

In 2021, she starred in her first TV show The Comedy Girls 5EVA, about a one hit wonder

pop girl group from the 1990s trying to get it back together for a second chance.

Then last year, she starred in an on-course production of Into the Woods as the Baker's Wife.

On-course shows are stripped down productions that only last a few weeks, but the production

was so well received, it went to Broadway and has now received six Tony nominations,

including the one for Sarah Barellis, the cast recording when the Grammy for Best Musical Theater

album earlier this year. The musical Into the Woods weaves together the stories of different

fairy tales, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood, to name a few,

Sarah Barellis plays The Baker's Wife who's trying to reverse the curse put on her marriage by

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