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Jagged Little Pill, 2019

Shows · Jagged Little Pill · Broadhurst Theatre, 2019

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Original BroadwayBroadhurst Theatre 327 performances

The run closed December 17, 2021

Opened
December 5, 2019
Closed
December 17, 2021
Performances
327
Previews
Theatre
Broadhurst Theatre

Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 71st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Jagged Little Pill 1 more that season

2022 Transfer Transfer

Who was in it15 named

Ken Wulf Clark
Laurel Harris
Max Kumangai
Heather Lang
Kei Tsuruharatani
Janine Divita
Veronica Otim
Wren Rivera

7 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters4 roles recorded

Heidi Blickenstaff Mary Jane "MJ" Healy
Chris Hoch Steve Healy
Allison Sheppard Bella Fox
Rishi Golani Phoenix

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Creative team

Director
Diane Paulus
Choreographer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Orchestrations
Tom Kitt

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical Nominated

Around this production

Jagged Little Pill is a jukebox musical with music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, lyrics by Morissette, and book by Diablo Cody, with additional music by Michael Farrell and Guy Sigsworth. The musical is inspired by the 1995 album of the same name by Morissette and deals with pain, healing, and empowerment. It premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2018, directed by Diane Paulus. The show began previews on Broadway in November 2019, but closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reopened on October 21, 2021, and closed on December 17, 2021. For the 74th Tony Awards, Jagged Little Pill won two awards on 15 nominations, the most nominations of a…

'You told me you’d hold me until you died, ’til you died, but you’re still alive.' There’s such sadness in saying “You oughta know” to someone who no longer has any interest in knowing; he or she has moved on and certainly without a hint of a forwarding address.

Speaker not recorded. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 250
  • Sometimes these characters were secondary roles like the two couples in The Wild Party (2000) or the manager of the Four Seasons in Jersey Boys (2006). On Broadway, one was likely to find LGBTQ+​ characters as comic relief and sidekicks to heterosexual leads. This was true in new musicals like The Producers (2001) and… Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 164
  • The 2010s saw bisexuality take center stage in Jagged Little Pill (2019) Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 166

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No recording is held for Jagged Little Pill at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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