Resident WBNQ musical theater geek Susan reporting with big news! One of my favorite albums of all time has become a Broadway bound musical.
From the NEW YORK TIMES:
Producers said on Monday that the musical, which uses the song catalog of Alanis Morissette to confront such contemporary issues as rape culture and addiction, will open next fall. They did not specify a theater or a date.
“Jagged Little Pill” has had one previous production, a sold-out 10-week run last year at the nonprofit American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
Reviewing the show for The New York Times, the critic Jesse Green said it “takes on the good work we are always asking new musicals to do: the work of singing about real things,” but added, “if only it didn’t sing about all of them all at once.” In the Boston Globe, Christopher Muther expressed similar misgivings about the catalog of social issues crammed into the plot, but called it “wildly entertaining” and “wickedly funny in just the right places.”
The musical features songs written by Ms. Morissette and Glen Ballard, many of them from the 1995 album that gives the show its title.
The website doesn’t give you all that you would wish for, but there is a nice preview video that you can watch.
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Some reviews are calling this show “The Next RENT”. Now that is setting the bar very high!
Read more about the show in this lovely NYTIMES article By Joshua Barone.
Susan Saunders 1/28/19
