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Sara Bareilles Talks Condensing ‘The Interestings’ Novel Into a Musical
Sara Bareilles exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about ‘trying to distill and condense’ the 560-page novel ‘The Interestings’ into a musical
The novel’s central character, Jules, sees herself as less sophisticated than her peers, and those insecurities follow her into adulthood as she romanticizes her longtime friends’ Ash and Ethan’s lives and marriage. The performances were filmed for PBS’ Next at the Kennedy Center series, and the special — titled Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve With the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends — will premiere on December 31. Mauricio Castro“I’m writing a lot about grief,” said Bareilles, whose friend Gavin Creel died at age 48 in September, two months after being diagnosed with metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
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