SOME SHOWS YOU SEE. THIS SHOW YOU FEEL.
Joy, rage, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, LIFE: everything we've been waiting and hoping to see on a Broadway stage for over a year is back, in this exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette's world-changing music.
Nominated for 15 Tony Awards (the most of any show), and a recent Grammy winner for Best Musical Theater Album, this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect American family "vaults the audience to its collective feet" (The Guardian). You live, you learn, you remember what it’s like to feel truly human... at JAGGED LITTLE PILL.
With Tom Kitt's attractively amped-up arrangements and performances by an impeccable cast of fine singers (even if they're too often guided to shout-sing from the lip of the stage), Morissette's angry, street-poetic dispatches from a fiercely singular artist mostly withstand the out-of-context placement in this troubled-family saga. And what troubles. Packed to bursting with hot-button issues as bluntly conveyed as the many hand-painted protest signs toted by its idealistic young characters, Jagged Little Pill front-loads its fictional family with enough problems, secrets and cliches to fuel three years of Lifetime movies.
The musical, which opened tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre, is, like the album, surpassingly excellent, if also slightly flawed. What makes it so good? It's the ideal exemplar of a certain sort of jukebox musical, one that hangs an artist's catalogue onto a fictional story, often to laughable result.(See: Everyone from the lovelorn Spring Breakers of Escape to Margaritaville to the wandering cowboy of Ring of Fire.) Here, in the hands of Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, Jagged Little Pill fashions a story with characters that are actually compelling: A modern, seemingly all-American, upper-middle-class family, in which all the members have their own problems. A cynical theatergoer, weary of this kind of jukeboxer, might well find himself surprised to be emotionally engaged in the story.
2018 | Boston |
World Premiere Production at American Repertory Theater Boston |
2021 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2022 | US Tour |
North American Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2020 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Elizabeth Stanley |
2020 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Lauren Patten |
2020 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Tom Kitt |
2020 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Lauren Patten |
2020 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Jagged Little Pill |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Elizabeth Stanley |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Diablo Cody |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Choreographer | Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Diane Paulus |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Kathryn Gallagher |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Lauren Patten |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Jagged Little Pill |
2020 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Tom Kitt |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Diablo Cody |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Emily Rebholz |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Diane Paulus |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Justin Townsend |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jagged Little Pill |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Tom Kitt |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Derek Klena |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Sean Allan Krill |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Lauren Patten |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Kathryn Gallagher |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Celia Rose Gooding |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Elizabeth Stanley |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Riccardo Hernandez |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Jonathan Deans |
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