Jagged Little Pill - Trafalgar Studios

I actually laughed out loud when I saw it on Broadway last year. The performances and songs were great but the story and characters featuring 413 different woke themes just ridiculous.

Oh really?! Despite loving Alanis's music, this would be a big black mark against it, for me.

I saw it last year. It’s all very woke and modern and features many themes of rape, adoption, race, teenage anxiety, climate change, marital issues, drug abuse, mental health and sexuality 😜 - the creators were obviously high when they said “let’s write a show and include EVERY possible social and personal issue in the world” (apart from covid!)

THAT said, the talent in the Broadway cast was exceptional, one of the songs features the entire cast performing everything backwards and some of the songs (despite being a tad “American” as a show in style and rocky for my liking) were very special.

I think the Trafalgar Theatre is a safe bet given Trafalgar Entertainment are one of the producers of Jagged Little Pill.

I love the music, JLP was a game changer for me when it came out mid 90s, one of the best albums of all time.

But there have been terrible stories about the Broadway production, the erasure of one of the main characters as gender non conforming from original workshops to Broadway and an initial denial that this ever happened.

This is the worst show I’ve ever seen. Absolute rot.

Please try and remember that Adam Kenwright is now a TB member. If we're all a bit more positive, maybe he'll give us an exclusive?

I remember seeing her at Shepherds Bush Empire just as JLP came out and she was phenomenal & ferocious but follow ups have been less engaging. It seems that people spend their formative years getting screwed over enough to write one fantastic album about it, then the rest of their lives only provide them with enough trauma to write 2 decent songs per album going forward. (Tori Amos…I look to you 😬).

Not really... Generation X (I count myself among it) was more the 80s. We didn't have all that navel-gazing and woe-is-me stuff yet, for us it was more about sassy liberated fun - when it comes to female artists of the era, I'd say Madonna was the defining voice, plus Cyndi Lauper, Bananarama, Kim Wilde and here in Germany Nena. Basically everyone with mad hair

Jagged Little Pill came out 1995, when us X'ers were in their 20s already. At that age I appreciated the somewhat smarter rock music, especially as it was such a contrast to the then popular bubblegum pop of the Spice Girls and Britney, but I wouldn't call Alanis a voice of our generation.

What is true, though, is the sentiment that those who were young in those days (including us) really don't care much for such an overblown pile of woke issues. As I said in an earlier statement, give me a show with ONE subject coherently and seriously presented and I'm here for it, but not for a box-ticking exercise.

I can’t disagree strongly enough. Her second album, “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” will always be my favorite album. As much as I appreciate and will always love her first album (and I listen to Alanis a LOT), it’s not one I regularly go back to. But I find “Flavors of Entanglement”, “Feast On Scraps”, “Under Rug Swept” to be better, as well.

LOL, no, bit of a misunderstanding there! As a (young) teen in the first half of the 80s, I loved the silly pop of that period, such as early Madonna. So you may be right that I'm at the older end of Gen X

When the 90s came (and Alanis), I was older, more mature and THEN appreciated her kind of smarter rock, while I didn't like the silly pop of that period such as the Spice Girls and Britney.

That said... in referencing Nena's 99 Red Balloons you are doing her a disservice, it was an anti-war song from a period where Germany was basically at the front of the cold war with US missiles stationed in West Germany and Soviet missiles in East Germany and the song was about that and how quickly a war could escalate. Though I agree that most of the rest of her songs were crap and these days she's only known as an idiotic antivaxxer anyway.