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.
Because, of course, it's Morissette's music that saves the day. After the floodgates open with 'You Oughta Know,' the star of the show, MJ (a stunning Elizabeth Stanley), takes over, writhing on her sofa in the grips of an opioid overdose, singing the Grammy-winning 'Uninvited,' with a doppelgänger dancer-demon mimicking her agony. 'Hand in My Pocket' brings a grin. 'Head Over Feet' is adorable. 'Ironic' gets big laughs because it's set amid a high-school creative-writing workshop and invokes all the criticisms that have been launched at the song's quirky lyrics: It's not ironic, y'all! And the sublime movement by Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (who also choreographed sequences in Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 'Apeshit' video) recalls the spastic, emotive motion you'd recognize from a Sia music video.
Along the way, we go through protests, marriage counseling, back-alley opioid scores, bitchy Connecticut coffee klatches, an overdose, and an extremely bad breakup. That's when Jo discovers Frankie in bed with another classmate, Phoenix (Antonio Cipriano) - 'He was wearing dog tags with no shirt like a douche,' Jo yells - and vents with 'You Oughta Know.' Patten starts the first halting words in almost a whisper: 'I want you to know / That I'm happy for you.' But as the song builds in volume and intensity, it's clear she's not simply singing; she's trying to pull the love out of her body. It's an emotional exorcism - and a performance that leaves her, and the audience, exhausted and exhilarated after its rock-concert-level conclusion.
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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