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"Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next To Normal. It's the best musical of the season by a mile (take that Billy Elliot), an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely. Composer Tom Kitt and writer-lyricist Brian Yorkey have broken the shackles of tired Broadway tradition, pushing it in new directions. OK, sometimes push comes to shove. But the effect is never less than mesmerizing."
-Rolling Stone "Next to Normal does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts." -New York Times Our ProductionNext to Normal is important for many reasons, the main one, we feel, is that it brings a somewhat taboo issue into a critical and objective light. It allows the audience to go on the emotional journey of mental illness and its treatment with the Goodman family without preaching a message; allowing the audience to draw their own conclusions. It's in this ambiguity that the beauty is found.
It brings awareness to an all-too-common issue and gives you the emotional and practical information required to find your own answers. (It doesn't hurt that it has a kick ass soundtrack either!) |