Jagged Little Pill (musical)
Jagged Little Pill is a rock musical with music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard. It premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2018. The show began previews on Broadway in November 2019, and opened on December 5, 2019. For the 74th Tony Awards, JaggedLittle Pill received 15 nominations.
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Jagged Little Pill is a rock musical with music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard. It premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2018, directed by Diane Paulus. The show began previews on Broadway in November 2019, and opened on December 5, 2019. For the 74th Tony Awards, JaggedLittle Pill received 15 nominations, the most of any show of the ceremony. The musical is inspired by the 1995 album of the same name by Morissettes and deals with pain, healing, and empowerment. In addition to music from the show’s namesake album, the musical also features other songs from Morissette’s catalog, including \”Thank U\”, \”That I Would Be Good\”, and \”So Pure\” from 1998’s Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, and \”Uninvited\” from the soundtrack of the 1998 film City of Angels. In May 2017, it was announced that the musical would receive its world premiere in May 2018, 23 years after the album was released. A reading took place in 2017, with Idina Menzel taking the part of Mary Jane. The first public performance of songs from the musical took place on March 18, 2018. The former was included as the second single from her ninth studio album Such Pretty Forks in the Road. The second was from 2002’s Under Rug Swept, and the former was from the Japanese edition of 2012’s Havoc and Bright Lights.
In the musical, MJ moves through her day backwards, starting with getting her painkillers in the alley, doing her daily activities, and ending with her running out of the pills at the beginning of the day. On the last day of Frankie’s English class before winter break, she reads a short story she wrote aloud in a writer’s workshop for her class to critique. The students in the class criticize her since things she claims to be ironic in her piece are not actually ironic, just bad things that happened to someone. A new student, Phoenix, defends Frankie and encourages her to go to a party that night. After class, Phoenix and Frankie decide to get together and have a romantic attraction. MJ and Steve get into an argument, yet Steve says he wants to see a marriage counselor, yet MJ refuses to see him. Meanwhile, Jo doesn’t attend the party because her mom forced her to. Jo’s mom scolds her for not dressing femininely enough for the church. Nick reflects on the pressures of him from his mother to be perfect and goes to the party with Frankie and go to the crowded party. MJ writes that she got into a car crash, but is healing with the help of natural remedies, and she is addicted to the painkillers from the car accident.
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