Headed to Broadway? You oughta know Jagged Little Pill packs a more powerful punch than Tony winner Moulin Rouge

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After a very strange, and very delayed, Tony Awards, how much stock can be put in the winners?

The Tony Awards can be useful in guiding a visitor trying to pick out a musical to see on Broadway – a position more Canadians are finding themselves back in again this month now that border restrictions have been lifted.Skepticism is perhaps especially warranted in the case of the very strange 2020 Tony Awards, which finally took place in the fall of 2021.

They take him to a fictionalized Moulin Rouge on the brink of bankruptcy – where Christian falls in love with the consumptive courtesan-cum-can-can dancer Satine . The original mega-mixes have been savvily updated for the stage here with hits from the last 20 years by a team of expert orchestrators. Lady Gaga, Outkast, Postal Service, Adele, Beyonce – if you don’t like one of the songs or its style, wait five seconds and another will arrive.

And an honourable mention goes to Ricky Rojas, who plays an aficionado of the tango named Santiago who shows what real passion looks like, unwittingly exposing its absence in the central coupling., playing at the Broadhurst and directed by Diane Paulus, is no doubt a much less slick enterprise. The premise has certainly been done to death: Meet the Healys, a suburban family of four who aren’t as perfect as their Christmas letter suggests.

Jagged Little Pill's plotline about the white Healy family’s bisexual Black daughter Frankie, and a love triangle she finds herself in with the gender-questioning Jo and new boy in town Phoenix, takes up a lot of space. But the show only seems to skim the surface of the subjects it raises.But it only seems to skims the surface of the subjects it raises, especially interracial adoption. That is something Morissette’s music does not speak to in any genuine way.

Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui movingly uses doubling to depict the out-of-body feelings of post-traumatic stress disorder, allowing both Bella and Mary Jane at times to observe themselves from the outside.

 

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