Lauren Patten won the best actress in a featured role in a Musical in the 74th Tony Awards for her role in the play “Jagged Little Pill” on Sunday. 

The show plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a fictional story of a family spiralling out of control. Patten plays teenage lesbian Jo in the show and gets to belt out the song “You Oughta Know.”

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After opening in New York, “Jagged Little Pill” producers have apologized to fans for changing Jo from gender-nonconforming to cisgender female after the show moved from Boston to Broadway.

Growing up in Downers Grove, Illinois, Patten was drawn to the performing arts early on, and by age 4, had begun appearing in commercials and community theatre productions. Patten, who has been on Broadway before in “Fun Home,” has a recurring role on the CBS crime drama “Blue Bloods.”

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For the Tony Award, she beat out Kathryn Gallagher and Celia Rose Gooding from “Jagged Little Pill,” Robyn Hurder from “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” and Myra Lucretia Taylor of “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical.”

Meanwhile, 

Danny Burstein won the Tony for the best actor in a featured role in a Musical for his role in the play “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” on Sunday. 

Burstein won his first Tony Award after seven nominations. In the play, the actor played the role of an ingratiating nightclub host Harold Zidler.

The other nominations in the category were:

Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Pill

Celia Rose Gooding, Jagged Little Pill

Robyn Hurder, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tina — The Tina Turner Musical 

With inputs from the Associated Press