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.
The great news for 'Jagged Little Pill,' and for us, is that its creative team, led by the director Diane Paulus, did more than just fiddle with a show that, though blurry, was already entertaining. The overhauled version that opened on Thursday at the Broadhurst Theater is fully in focus: clear in its priorities, rich in character, sincere without syrup, rousing and real. It easily clears the low bar of jukebox success to stand alongside the dark original musicals that have been sustaining the best hopes of Broadway in recent years.
Paulus, who has one of the strongest directorial hands working today, does her usual fine work of presenting vivid pictures, the one misstep being an out of place gag involving a character's exit through the audience. Tom Kitt's orchestrations expand Morissette's indie sound into something more theatre-textured. No doubt Jagged Little Pill will excite fans whose prime interest is to hear a beloved song catalogue performed by terrific Broadway singers. If Alanis Morissette ever decides to write an original musical score for the stage, the news will excite this theatregoer as well.
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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