Nearly 25 years after “Jagged Little Pill” hit the shelves of record stores, Alanis Morissette’s innovative 1995 album has arrived on Broadway under the muscular direction of Diane Paulus, who laun…
interprets Morissette’s musical idiom as a universal domestic drama — with strong emphasis on the kids and their friends — recounted in heart-wrenching song.
When the focus shifts to the Healy family, the feelings get more personal. “All I really want is some peace, man,” sings Nick Healy the superstar son who is headed for Harvard. Later in the show, Klena will have a nice moment with “Perfect,” sharing Nick’s fears of not being able to live up to the expectations of his family and his teachers.
“Hand in My Pocket” goes to Frankie’s girlfriend, Jo , who has one of the funniest, most acerbic lines in Cody’s unusually articulate book: “Dear Jesus, please don’t let my only child be gay,” she says, mocking her religious mother. “Especially not one of those obvious gays who wear performance fleece and utility sandals.” Later in the show, after Frankie’s romantic rejection of the broken-hearted Jo, Patten brings the cheering audience to its feet with her howling version of “You Oughta Know.
“So Unsexy,” another good example of creative transformation, is here sung by Sean Allan Krill as Steve Healy, mourning the loss of passion in his marriage to Mary Jane, the wife he still adores. “How these little abandonments / Seem to sting so easily / Your hand pulling away / And I’m devastated” seem more tragic, somehow, coming from a long-married man longing for the lost love of his life.
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