The Great Flannel Way: "Jagged Little Pill" On Broadway

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

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Published on Monday, 11 November 2013 16:36

Written by Renzo Adler

Nostalgia is a strange thing. It comes and goes in waves, but it is ever present. Through much of the late 90’s and early 00’s, there was a glut of 80’s nostalgia in the form of cartoon revivals, covers of popular songs, and so on. But 90’s nostalgia has stayed somewhat low key. Until now. Alanis Morissette, that Gen-X songsmith of perfectly unkempt locks, is now treading ground on the Great White Way.

Alanis’ 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill, will become Broadway musical, in the vein of Green Day’s American Idiot (which blazed the trail for this endeavor). Let’s let the press release take it away (emphasis mine):

“Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette will take her 1995 hit album, Jagged Little Pill, to the Broadway stage debuting a workshop production of the piece in 2014. The musical, also called “Jagged Little Pill,” will include the full song list from the album as well as tracks from the rest of her body of work and some new, original songs that she will compose specially for the stage production. Two-time Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (“Next To Normal”, Green Day’s “American Idiot”) has signed on to provide orchestrations and arrangements.

“...Jagged Little Pill” will be produced by veteran Broadway producer Vivek J. Tiwary, who saw success with a similar venture, Green Day’s “American Idiot,” and British-Malaysian producer Arvind Ethan David.”

Now if you excuse me, I have to go pitch a musical about 4 Non Blondes.