A romantic attraction begins between the two. A new student, Phoenix, defends Frankie and encourages her to finish ("Ironic").
The students in the class criticize her since things she claims to be ironic in her piece are not actually ironic, just bad things that happened to someone. On the last day of Frankie's English class before winter break, she reads a short story she wrote aloud in a writer's workshop for her class to critique. MJ moves through her day backwards, starting with getting her painkillers in the alley, doing her daily activities, and ending with her running out of the pills at the beginning of the day ("Smiling"). MJ tries to get drugs from the pharmacy, but she is out of refills. At school, Frankie and Jo discuss how their mothers don't understand or accept them: Frankie's because of her disapproval of her self expression and Jo's mom not accepting them being gay or their gender expression ("Hand in My Pocket"). MJ pressures Nick to be perfect to keep up the family's image ("All I Really Want"). What she doesn't write is that Steve is addicted to pornography, Frankie is making out with her best friend, Jo, as the letter is being written, and MJ is addicted to the painkillers from the car accident ("Right Through You"). MJ writes that she got into a car crash, but is healing with the help of natural remedies. She writes about her husband Steve's job promotion, her daughter Frankie's art, and her son Nick's early admission to Harvard University. Mary Jane (MJ) Healy is a mother writing the yearly family Christmas letter. Morissette also wrote two new songs for the musical, " Smiling" and "Predator", with the former being included as the second single from her ninth studio album Such Pretty Forks in the Road. In addition to music from the show's namesake album, Jagged Little Pill also features other songs from Morissette's catalog, including " Thank U", " That I Would Be Good", and " So Pure" from 1998's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, " So Unsexy" and " Hands Clean" from 2002's Under Rug Swept, "Unprodigal Daughter" from 2002's Feast on Scraps, "No" from the Japanese edition of 2012's Havoc and Bright Lights and " Uninvited" from the soundtrack of the 1998 film City of Angels. Music and lyrics are by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, with musical direction by Bryan Perri, sound design by Jonathan Deans and orchestration by Tom Kitt. The show has a book by Diablo Cody, with direction by Diane Paulus, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, set design by Riccardo Hernandez, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Justin Townsend, and video design by Finn Ross. The first public performance of songs from the show took place in March 2018, at the American Repertory Theater Gala. A reading took place in 2017, with Idina Menzel taking the part of Mary Jane. In May 2017, it was announced that the musical would receive its world premiere in May 2018, 23 years after the album was released. A first workshop was expected to take place in 2014 however, in 2015 Morissette revealed that the show was still in the early stages and had yet to be written. In November 2013, it was revealed that a musical version of the album Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette was being adapted for the stage with composer Tom Kitt attached to arrange the orchestrations. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. For the 74th Tony Awards, Jagged Little Pill won two awards on 15 nominations, the most nominations of any show of the 2019–2020 season. The show began previews on Broadway in November 2019, and opened on December 5, 2019, and closed on Decemdue to the COVID-19 pandemic. It premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2018, directed by Diane Paulus. The musical is inspired by the 1995 album of the same name by Morissette and deals with pain, healing, and empowerment. Jagged Little Pill is a jukebox musical with music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, lyrics by Morissette, and book by Diablo Cody, with additional music by Michael Farrell and Guy Sigsworth. May 5, 2018 ( ): American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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