Goldstar Member Tips

• Kitkat on Where to Park
  Convenient lots adjacent to the theater.
• Kitkat on What to Wear
  Anything goes!
• Kitkat on Where to Eat
  Food options are bleak (concession food) and the bar is limited.

Goldstar Member Reviews

Kitkat

The event was fantastic. Alanis was great and the venue, the Orpheum, is a beautiful old theater. No bad seats.

Written on Nov 21 2008

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Curt

Could hear her voice only about 30% of the time. Her band is great, though.

Written on Nov 14 2008

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Tatiana Gorbenko

Great venue, great artist!

Written on Nov 14 2008

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Nanners

Great venue, great concert, very great experience!

Written on Oct 12 2009

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More Information About Alanis Morissette

Website

http://www.alanismorissette.com/

Description

A dozen years after the breakthrough debut of Jagged Little Pill, an album which earned four Grammys, sold 30 million records and spawned a dedicated worldwide fan base, Alanis Morissette remains not only an enduringly popular artist, but one whose success stems from a fierce commitment to authenticity and, to an equal extent, vulnerability. Both of these traits enable her to climb to new ground on her new Maverick/Reprise album, Flavors of Entanglement.

Her current collaborator is British electronica producer Guy Sigsworth (Bjork, Imogen Heap), who co-wrote the music with Morissette and produced the album. Nearly two dozen songs were born from writing sessions in London and Los Angeles and eleven were selected for the final cut of Flavors of Entanglement. While hewing to a familiar process – creating songs as snapshots of her life – Morissette found cathartic support during a big transition in her life. "I often write in retrospect, but this time all was written in real time," she says. "These songs served as an outlet and marking of this massively growthful time."
Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and Germany, Alanis Morissette played piano, wrote songs and discovered a love of words and dance at an early age.  At ten she joined the cast of "You Can't Do That On Television," a popular children's television program.  She used some of the money she made on that show to start a record company with a friend and fund an independent single called "Fate Stay With Me." When her time on the show was over, Morissette signed a publishing contract and eventually a record deal with MCA Canada, releasing the album Alanis in 1991, for which she won Canada's Juno Award for Most Promising Female Artist.  Her follow-up album, Now Is The Time, was released the following year. It was 1994, when Morissette came to the U.S. and began working with producer Glen Ballard, that she found her own voice as a singer-songwriter. "I was 19 when I first felt that writing was a channeled experience. That has a lot to do with where I was at then, having met Glen, moving from Canada and moving away from any preconceived notions of how songs ‘should' be written.  It was the beginning of a new way to approach songwriting altogether," she explains. The result of their collaboration was Jagged Little Pill (Maverick Records), an emotionally raw collection of songs that introduced Alanis Morissette to the world and sold more than 30 million units worldwide.  With heavy-rotation singles like "You Oughta Know," "Head Over Feat," "Hand in My Pocket" and "Ironic," it became the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest-selling debut album worldwide.  Nominated for six Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and Song of the Year ("You Oughta Know"), Jagged Little Pill won four trophies for Album of the Year, Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance ("You Oughta Know").  In 1997, a fifth Grammy for Best Long-form Music Video was bestowed upon Morissette for Jagged Little Pill Live. Her next album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with record-setting first-week sales of nearly 470,000 copies.  Morissette hauled in two more Grammys for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the string-laden rock ballad "Uninvited," which hit #1 on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart.  The Grammy-nominated single "Thank U" also reached #1 on the Adult Top 40 chart and #2 on Top 40 Mainstream.  The MTV acoustic forum "Unplugged" yielded Alanis Unplugged in 1999. Throughout the first half of the new decade, Alanis Morissette continued evidencing that she was an artist with something to say, and she would say it in her own distinct way.  In 2002 Under Rug Swept debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, its single "Hands Clean" reaching #3 on the Adult Top 40 chart.  Two years later came So-Called Chaos, whose single "Everything" became an Adult Top 40 mainstay and "Eight Easy Steps" became a club hit as a dance mix.  Morissette celebrated the ten-year anniversary of her breakthrough album with 2005's Jagged Little Pill Acoustic.  In November of that year, The Collection amassed a best-of anthology with 17 tracks that delivered favorites from previous albums as well as a well-received cover of Seal's "Crazy" (an interesting foreshadowing, as it was originally co-written and produced by her future Flavors of Entanglement collaborator Guy Sigsworth).