Lauren Patten's Tony Win For 'Jagged Little Pill' Slammed Amid Backstage Controversy
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The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical is facing an investigation following claims the production workplace was harmful to transgender and nonbinary people.
Lauren Patten thanked her “trans and nonbinary friends and colleagues” Sunday while accepting the Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical for her performance in “Jagged Little Pill.”
Many Broadway fans, however, felt Patten would have done better to reject the honor outright.
“Jagged Little Pill,” which opened on Broadway in December 2019, uses songs from Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name to relay a 21st-century parable about mental health, sexuality, racism and addiction. Patten stars as Jo, a tormented teen whose chilling version of “You Oughta Know” is the musical’s most buzzed-about moment.
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