You oughta know, that Alanis Morissette‘s critically acclaimed album, Jagged Little Pill is being turned into a Broadway musical.
According to Billboard, the singer-songwriter’s iconic 1995 album will be the basis of a new production debuting at Cambridge’s American Repertory in May 2018.
Directed by Diane Paulus, the show will include orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt and a book by Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno who also co-created the series United States of Tara and One Mississippi. It will be Cody’s Broadway debut.
Created by Cody in close creative consultation with Morissette, the show’s storyline revolves around a modern and multi-generational family and their complex dynamics, touching on issues of gender identity and race. Songs from Morissette’s groundbreaking album like “Ironic” and “Hand in My Pocket” will be performed in the musical, which will also feature melodies from the singer’s extensive body of work.
Released in 1995, Jagged Little Pill was co-written with Glen Ballard and has sold more than 33 million copies worldwide to date. The album won five Grammy Awards out of nine nominations, including Album of the Year, making Morissette the youngest artist in history to receive the honor at the time.