Jagged Little Pill

Probe-Übersetzung
für Concord Theatricals

2020

Jagged Little Pill

Musical
von Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard & Diablo Cody
(2018)

Probe-Übersetzung
für Concord Theatricals
2020

Probe-Übersetzung des Musicals von Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard und Diablo Cody für Concord Theatricals Berlin.

Es entstanden deutsche Fassungen von mehreren Songs, von denen einige bei der "schreib:maschine" in der Neuköllner Oper in Berlin im September 2020 zum ersten Mal präsentiert wurden.

Das Stück basiert auf Morissettes Erfolgs-Album "Jagged Little Pill", das in diesem Jahr 25-jähriges Jubiläum feiert.

"Jagged Little Pill" erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Healy. Eine nach außen hin perfekte Familie, bei der doch einige Konflikte unter der Oberfläche brodeln. Die Beziehung zwischen den Eltern ist nicht mehr das, was sie einmal war und sowohl Sohn Nick als auch die Adoptivtochter Frankie kämpfen mit ihren ganz eigenen Problemen.

"Jagged Little Pill" Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Matthew Murphy

Über das
Stück

Musik
Alanis Morissette
Glen Ballard

Liedtexte
Alanis Morissette

Buch
Diablo Cody

Regie
Diane Paulus

Broadway-Premiere
05. Dezember 2019
Broadhurst Theatre
New York

Alanis Morissettes Album "Jagged Little Pill" (1995) ist bis heute unvergessen – und es kommt nun zu neuer Blüte: Im Mai 2018 wird das gleichnamige Musical am American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts Premiere feiern.

Damit wird ein Projekt Wirklichkeit, von dem die Sängerin bereits 2013 sprach. Und das Warten hat sich anscheinend gelohnt, denn die Macher der Musical-Produktion versprechen einiges: Regie führt Tony-Gewinnerin Diane Paulus, das Buch wurde geschrieben von Diablo Cody ("Juno"), Orchestrierung und Arrangements kommen von Tony- und Pulitzer-Preisträger Tom Kitt, der schon erfolgreich an Green Days "American Idiot"-Adaption mitarbeitete.

In einer Pressemitteilung schreibt Alanis Morissette dazu: "Das Team, das sich für dieses 'Jagged Little Pill'-Musical zusammengefunden hat, ist die Erfüllung meines Musical-Theater-Traumes. Die Chemie zwischen uns allen knistert und ich fühle mich geehrt, noch einmal die Songs abzutauchen, umgeben von so viel Talent. Diablo und Diane bringen diese zutiefst persönlichen Songs, die Teil des Innersten meiner Seele sind, bereits auf ein komplett neues Level der Hoffnung, Freiheit und Vielschichtigkeit."

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Warner Music Germany

"Jagged Little Pill" Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Matthew Murphy

Songs

Musikalische Nummern
1. Akt

Overture
Ensemble

Right Through You
Ensemble

All I Really Want
Frankie, Mary Jane, Steve, Nick & Ensemble

Hand In My Pocket
Jo, Frankie & Ensemble

Smiling
Mary Jane & Ensemble

Ironic
Frankie, Phoenix

So Unsexy
Steve, Mary Jane & Ensemble

Perfect
Nick

Lancer's Party (So Pure)
Ensemble

That I Would Be Good
Phoenix, Frankie, Jo

Wake Up
Frankie, Nick & Ensemble

Forgiven
Mary Jane & Ensemble

2. Akt

Entr'acte / Hands Clean
Ensemble

Not The Doctor
Mary Jane, Steve

Head Over Feet
Steve, Mary Jane, Phoenix, Frankie

Your House
Jo

Unprodigal Daughter
Frankie & Ensemble

Predator
Bella & Ensemble

You Oughta Know
Jo & Ensemble

Uninvited
Mary Jane & Ensemble

Mary Jane
Steve & Ensemble

No
Bella & Ensemble

Thank U
Ensemble

You Learn
Ensemble

"Jagged Little Pill" Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Matthew Murphy

Presse-stimmen

Jesse Green,
The New York Times
05. Dezember 2019

"The problem with most jukebox musicals isn’t the juke, it’s the box. The tunes are fine, but they rarely match the container that someone is trying to jam them into. How could they? Commercial pop and musical theater have different kinds of tales to tell and different tools for telling them.

So it’s easy to imagine all the ways 'Jagged Little Pill' could have gone wrong. Based on material from Alanis Morissette’s 1995 megahit album and several of its follow-ups, it could have wound up in a bio-musical straitjacket or with a story either too light for the songs’ furious intelligence or too broad for Broadway. [...]

The great news for 'Jagged Little Pill,' and for us, is that [...] the overhauled version that opened on Thursday at the Broadhurst Theater is fully in focus: clear in its priorities, rich in character, sincere without syrup, rousing and real. It easily clears the low bar of jukebox success to stand alongside the dark original musicals that have been sustaining the best hopes of Broadway in recent years.

And despite its pre-existing songs — beautifully arranged for the stage by Tom Kitt — it certainly is original. [...]

'Jagged Little Pill' never feels like a coy concert or a greatest hits medley [...] Rather, it feels like a summation: of our world’s worst ills but also the way song can summon resistance to them. That may make 'Jagged Little Pill' the first jukebox musical to truly make sense of its genre. Joyful and redemptive as it is at times, the show’s strength comes from the dead seriousness of its one presiding voice, filtered through characters who are more alike than their shame lets them know."

"Jagged Little Pill" Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Matthew Murphy

Presse-stimmen

Marilyn Stasio,
Variety
05. Dezember 2019

"It would be an insult to call this stage adaptation a jukebox musical, because unlike most specimens of that theatrical genre, the story seems to emerge organically from the music.

Both structurally and thematically, comparisons to the 2008 musical 'Next to Normal' by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt are probably inevitable. (In each show, an all-American family is profoundly challenged by a mother suffering from a debilitating condition.) But Morissette’s youthful perspective and the rocking-good score make 'Jagged Little Pill' feel very much of the moment — this moment. [...]

What makes this musical so seriously smart is the way that some of the most beloved songs from Morissette’s iconic album come right out of the dramatic content, rather than being slapped on top of a wobbly book scene.

'Ironic,' for one clever example, becomes a poem that Frankie is unsuccessfully trying to read out loud in class, hooted down by classmates who point out that the examples she uses in her poem are not, in fact, ironic. [...]

'So Unsexy,' another good example of creative transformation, is here sung (beautifully) 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. [...]

As far as I’m concerned, this is a show you want to shout about."

"Jagged Little Pill" Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Matthew Murphy