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Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pull: The Musical

Based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music, this Tony and Grammy Award-winning new musical about a perfectly imperfect American family is brimming with joy, strength, love, courage and life.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Cautions: Drugs, Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Large Stage, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Two Tony Awards including Best Book (2020)
    Winner! Two Drama Desk Awards (2020)
    Winner! Eight Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Broadway Musical (2020)
    Winner! Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (2021)
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical is an exhilarating new musical inspired by the themes and raw emotions laid bare in Alanis Morissette's seminal album of the same name. The Healys appear to be a picture-perfect suburban family – but looks can be deceiving. When the cracks beneath the surface begin to show, they must choose between maintaining the status quo or facing harsh truths about themselves, their community and the world around them.

Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys’ lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane’s drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.
REVIEWS:

"Jagged Little Pill burns with passion. I want to see it again and again."

 Rolling Stone

"Electrifying... visceral and stunning. Jagged Little Pill takes a stand against complacency."

 Hollywood Reporter

"A big-hearted musical that breaks the mold."

 The New York Times

"Urgent, wildly entertaining, and wickedly funny in all the right places."

 The Boston Globe

"Jagged Little Pill isn’t just of the moment. It’s of the millisecond."

 Newsday

"Surpassingly excellent... in the hands of Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, Jagged Little Pill fashions a story with characters that are actually compelling."

 New York Stage Review

"Speaks directly to the messy reality of American life."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"Jagged Little Pill is no blast-from-the-past jukebox musical but an urgent, rock-driven slice of modern life that tackles nearly every issue of the day: sexual identity, opioid addiction, racial tension, rape... What makes Jagged Little Pill work so well is its multigenerational storyline, a self-aware sense of humor and Morissette's surprisingly sturdy songs."

 Newsday

Premiere Production: Jagged Little Pill premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 5, 2019. Directed by Diane Paulus, the production featured Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, Derek Klena, Sean Allan Krill, Lauren Patten and Elizabeth Stanley.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Role(s) for Non-Binary Actor(s)

  • BELLA
    FRANKIE HEALY
    NICK HEALY
    STEVE HEALY
    JO
    MARY JANE HEALY

  • DENISE
    DRUG DEALER
    PHOENIX
    JILL
    TEACHER
    ANDREW
    DOCTOR
    COURTNEY
    PHARMACIST
    THERAPIST
    BARISTA

  • CHORUS

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