Jagged Little Pill [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

by Jagged Little Pill [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

Overview

Upon first glance, Alanis Morissette's blockbuster 1995 album Jagged Little Pill doesn't seem like the ideal source material for a Broadway musical. It's too personal, too idiosyncratic, too tied to its time. Librettist Diablo Cody addresses these problems by setting the play in the late 2010s and spreading its songs among a dysfunctional family so it can cover any number of provocative social issues. Listening to the original cast recording of Jagged Little Pill, the additional voices are immediately apparent but it's difficult to discern the story based on the song sequencing itself, and pronoun switches don't help matters, either. If the narrative is murky, the songs are clear and generally familiar. A few tracks from latter-day Morissette albums are included -- notably, the hits "Thank U" and "Uninvited" are here -- and there are a couple of new numbers, but it's the Jagged Little Pill songs that stand out, sounding cleaner than the 1995 album but also more grandiose. The bolder arrangements suit the cast, who are trained and powerful vocalists in a way Morissette wasn't in 1995. All this makes the Jagged Little Pill cast recording comforting but slightly disorienting: the elements are all familiar but they've been polished so the quirks aren't as evident. They're still there, though, lying in Morissette's words and melodies, helping to keep this neo-jukebox musical just a little bit lively. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	12/06/2019
Label:	Atlantic
UPC:	0075678651359

Tracks

1. Overture
2. See Right Through You
3. All I Really Want
4. Hand in My Pocket
5. Smiling
6. Ironic
7. So Unsexy
8. Perfect
9. Lancers Party (So Pure)
10. That I Would Be Good
11. Wake Up
12. Forgiven
13. Entr'Acte (Hand's Clean)
14. Not the Doctor
15. Head Over Feet
16. Unprodigal Daughter
17. Predator
18. You Oughta Know
19. Uninvited
20. Mary Jane
21. No
22. Thank U
23. You Learn

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ezra Menas   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Vocals
Arturo Cipriano   Primary Artist
Kei Tsuruharatani   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Kelsey Orem   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Ken Wulf Clark   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Logan Hart   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Laurel Harris   Primary Artist,Vocals
Elizabeth Stanley   Primary Artist,Vocals
Lauren Patten   Primary Artist,Vocals
Zach Hess   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Annelise Baker   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Celia Rose Gooding   Primary Artist,Vocals
Yana Perrault   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Yeman Brown   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Sean Allan Krill   Primary Artist,Vocals
Antonio Cipriano   Primary Artist,Vocals
Max Kumangal   Primary Artist
Heather Lang   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Kathryn Gallagher   Primary Artist,Vocals
Derek Klena   Primary Artist,Vocals
Max Kumangai   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Nora Schell   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Jane Bruce   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Ebony Williams   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Original Broadway Cast   Primary Artist
John Cardoza   Primary Artist,Vocals,Ensemble
Vashon Johnson   Bass (Acoustic),Bass (Electric)
Tia Allen   Viola
Damien Bassman   Drums,Percussion
Bryan Perri   Conductor,Harmonica,Keyboards,Music Direction,Musical Director
Kristine Kruta   Cello
Alex Nolan   Guitar
Eric Davis   Guitar
Matt Doebler   Music Direction
Michael Aarons   Guitar

Technical Credits

Joshua Brazil   Assistant Engineer
Ricardo Hernandez   Scenic Design
Craig Rosen   A&R,Producer
Stephen Kopels   Casting
Alison Murphy   A&R
Derik Lee   Engineer,Recording
Randy Cohen   Keyboard Programming
Matt Murphy   Photography
John Rooney   Assistant Engineer
Sam Starobin   Keyboard Programming
Arvind Ethan David   Producer
Justin Townsend   Lighting Design
Lucy Mackinnon   Video Art
Neal Avron   Mixing,Producer
Alanis Morissette   Composer,Lyricist,Liner Notes
Diablo Cody   Book
Jill Dell Abate   Production Manager
Emily Grishman   Music Copyist
Eva Price   Producer
Jill Dell'Abate   Production Manager
Diane Paulus   Direction
Ebonie Smith   Engineer,Recording
Scott Skrzynski   Editing,Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer,Editorial Assistant
Emily Rebholz   Costume Design
Matt Doebler   Assistant Music Director
Tamar Climan   Producer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui   Direction,Choreographer
Chris Gehringer   Mastering
Shannon Ford   Drum Programming
Tom Kitt   Arranger,Producer,Supervisor,Orchestration,Music Supervisor,Orchestral Arrangements
Jeremy Kaplan   Legal Counsel
Justin Berger   Assistant Engineer
Michael Parker   A&R,Producer
Guy Sigsworth   Composer
Michael Aarons   Music Coordinator
Glen Ballard   Composer
Michael Farrell   Composer
Vivek J. Tiwary   Producer
Pete Ganbarg   A&R,Producer