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This colloquium will present works in progress exploring the development of the 2019 Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, including the collaboration between Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette and theater practitioners as, together, they used the songs from Morissette’s iconic 1995 album Jagged Little Pill to craft an original jukebox musical. At play in the musical are the intertwined affects of nostalgia and hope, felt acutely by those in Canada and beyond who came of age in the 1990s listening to Morissette’s music. As a musical adaptation, Jagged Little Pill appeals to the nostalgic fandom of the source material’s original audience while filtering that source material through a contemporary lens, and in so doing, invites the audience to cast a critical view on their memories of the past.