Review: Jagged Little Pill leaps from moody album to banging musical at the Orpheum startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“Jagged Little Pill,” which opened Tuesday at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre, takes an unexpected approach in transforming Morissette's songs into Broadway fodder.
The musical falters until its second act, when it goes deeper, sharpens focus, gathers force, and generally elevates the stakes. What had been fragmentary, disconnected snapshots coalesce into a fuller portrait of a family in crisis.
"Jagged Little Pill," the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alanis Morissette s 1995 chart-topping album now running at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, does jukebox tuners proud.