She is also exploring her burgeoning queerness with her best friend with benefits, Jo (Lauren Patten) and then later betrays Jo to explore relations with the new boy in school Phoenix ( Antonio Cipriano). Their daughter, Frankie, who is adopted and the only black member of the family, feels alienated by the way her “colorblind” mother has diminished Frankie’s black identity. She secretly harbors an addiction to prescription pain pills, and her marriage to Steve is distant and sexless, and he turns to porn. Mary Jane Healy is a mom obsessed with keeping it all together despite the fact that her life is spinning out of control. The story follows the Healy family, Mary Jane ( Elizabeth Stanley), Steve ( Sean Allan Krill) and their teenage children Nick (Derek Klena) and Frankie ( Celia Rose Gooding), who at first glance appear to be your typical “white picket fence” all-American family, but as we know there are always several dirty little secrets living within the closets and the Healy family is no exception. There is so much packed into “Jagged Little Pills” roughly 2 hours and 35 minutes run time and while watching the show it felt as if no time had gone by at all, as the pacing was just phenomenal. The show focuses on many current issues such as the opioid crisis, the #MeToo movement, rape culture, white privilege, racism, LGBT rights, gender fluidity and more. Writer Diablo Cody found a way to take these songs that spoke so much to us back in the mid-nineties and give them an entirely new voice that is completely relevant to the social and political landscape that we are dealing with today. After seeing “ Jagged Little Pill”, we now have a completely new and different view and understanding of many stand-out tracks featured on both the album and the show including, “You Learn”, “Ironic” and the always anthemic “You Oughta Know” and from now on will definitely be listening to them in an entirely new way. “ Jagged Little Pill” is loosely based upon the songs that made up Morrisette’s iconic 1995 album release by the same name and taking this music to Broadway has created a breath of fresh life for these songs that were a big part of our angsty teenage youth. This is no doubt thanks to the incredibly creative team behind the production with director Diane Paulus, scriptwriter Diablo Cody and the artist behind the amazing soundtrack that makes up this show, Alanis Morrissette. It is almost difficult to put into words just how impressive “ Jagged Little Pill” is on the stage, as the show has just recently made it’s Broadway debut.

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