Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Will Broadway’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Do Justice to the 1990s Classic?
Observer: “I want you to know that I’m happy for you” is something Alanis Morissette is probably hearing a lot this week. After a sold-out run last year at the nonprofit American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., a musical based on the singer’s Jagged Little Pill will debut on Broadway this fall.
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I am so upset that I missed Jagged Little Pill at the A.R.T. this summer! A good friend of mine saw it and immediately recommended it. I tried to get tickets for that night and it was completely sold out! I was leaving for Europe in two days and I had no other chance to see it. It was tragic. I hope now that the show is going to Broadway I can get a chance to see it there. After I missed Waitress at the A.R.T. I swore I was never gonna let a Broadway bound show slip through my fingers but alas. Anyways, the show seems like prime Broadway material, it’s got angst, good music, a great team and a nuclear family. Obviously it seemed the autour was curious about the show, but I’m surprised they didn’t ask people about the Boston run. They were acting as if the show was going to be a completely new surprise. And sure, It will have some differences, but the question in the title seems like it could have been answered with some interviewing of audience members. Overall I am wicked excited for this show to go to Broadway.
This article made me very excited about this musical. It sounds like a very gritty and honest way to delve into the topics that Alanis Morisette tackled in her songs. While there is always a concern about doing justice to an iconic person or album or whatever it is, I think that is not enough reason not to do it, especially when it has this much potential. I also think that, even if the musical is brilliant, there will always be some unhappy people who think that she was not portrayed well. There is never a situation where everyone was happy with a product but, as far as I could tell from the article, this musical seems to tap into a very real and human experience which, as the article says, seems to be an easy transition to the stage, where the human experience is the main topic, always. I hope that I will eventually be able to see this musical, because I can’t see a way where it wouldn’t turn out well.
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