pie, with a side of life...

yesterday, i saw the new broadway musical, "waitress"...and if it weren't for a little show called "hamilton", then this would be the musical announced again and again tony-time...quite wonderful...when i had read way back about the musical adaptation of the movie i was very excited...and yet, the quirky independent film...the vision and artistic achievement of the equally quirky adrienne shelly...always brings tears to my eyes...her brutal murder, which was at first thought a suicide...and most definitely not...her movie...writer, director, co-star...would open to raves at sundance...and she would never live to see it...artistically, i am sure her talent would have soared further...but her little girl...the beautiful cherub as lulu in the movie...robbed of her mother so young...and so, as i watched this version...i felt tears well up...yes, for jesse mueller's soaring voice...sara bareilles' haunting and uplifting score...diane paulus'  beautiful interpretation of at times funny, but mostly very serious subject matter...no they welled up for ms. shelly...her delectable pie of a film...and for the life she should have tasted