Alanis Morissette revealed that she plans to turn Jagged Little Pill into a jukebox musical for Broadway in an interview after Canada's 2015 Juno Awards this past Sunday, March 15.
According to Billboard, the 1995 Jagged Little Pill album sold more than 33 million copies worldwide. Now 20 years later, Morissette will take this noteworthy album and work with Tom Kitt, the composer responsible for Green Day's award-winning Broadway show American Idiot, to Broadway.
"That feels like 25 years ago," Morissette laughed to Billboard regarding the making of Jagged Little Pill. "What was happening at the time was I was transitioning from having worked with Leslie Howe [on her dance-pop], so people I was surrounded with there, their focus was more on creating an image or a persona and my imperative was 'I won't stop until I write a record that I actually feel expresses who I am as a human being.'"
Express herself she did -- fans remember her popular 1990s hits from Jagged Little Pill like "You Oughta Know," "Hand in My Pocket" and "Ironic." Morissette worked with producer and songwriter Glen Ballard more than 20 years ago to create the memorable album.
"I remember before I met Glen and traveling and collaborating with lots of incredible people, I was just willing to find a spot where someone whom I was sitting across from would say, 'Who are you?' as opposed to having their agenda imposed on me. So Glen was that, in spades," Morissette told Billboard.
The Canadian singer and songwriter was recently inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards for Jagged Little Pill. While speaking at the awards, Morissette reflected on her career and expressed her appreciation for her Canadadian background.
The Daily Mail reported Morissette saying:
"I am deeply appreciative of this country. A lot of people around the planet ask me what is about you Canadians that make you so expressed and so compelling. And I say, 'There's definitely something in the water other than fluoride.'"
Morissette is also working on a self-help book using personal stories to "illustrate different wisdoms and insights," the singer told Billboard. As far as her Broadway-version album, it is early in the process.
"We're just in the beginning phases of it, so I can barely share anything about it because we haven't created it yet," she told Billboard. "But the story is going to be fictionalized and then at some point down the next 10 years I can envision myself creating a one-person show where I can really get into the subtleties and the stories, but for this particular musical it will be a fictionalized story and we'll add songs and change lyrics."
