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. 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. When I saw “Jagged Little Pill” last year at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., I worried that it was falling into the “too broad” category.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2019 02:37 UTC