Next to normal

Review: Next to Normal at Donmar Warehouse “an absolute triumph that deserves, and needs, a longer run”

"Hill and DeMerell captured beautifully the delicate and painful dance of a couple perfectly wrong for one another, whose youthful good intentions have calcified into painful resentment." http://reelroyreviews.com/2013/06/30/the-cost-of-feeling-two-muses-theatre-production-of-next-to-normal/

Bipolar disorder and the emotional toll mental illness takes on a family are not standard fare for Broadway musicals, let alone Broadway hits. But that is the subject of "Next to Normal" which has managed to draw both commercial and critical success. On Monday it earned another honor: It was named winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making it just the eighth musical in history to receive that award.

Next to Normal at Arena D.C.’s Arena Stage has been doing its fair share of boasting lately. In less than two months, goes the hype, not one but two Arena shows will be running simultaneously on Broadway. As if that weren’t enough, Arena is calling itself the first regional theater to claim this honor twice, […]

NEXT TO NORMAL, the rock musical, at New Line Theatre, professional, alternative, adult musical theatre.

“Next to Normal is a brave, breathtaking musical...It is something much more than a feel-good musical. It is a feel-everything musical.”—The New York Times The Goodmans seem like a perfect family. The only problem is that sometimes mother Diana seems, well...a little too happy. Her husband Dan worries all the time. Her daughter Natalie seems awfully intent on getting that scholarship to Yale and leaving home. And her son Gabe, well...that’s another story entirely. Since its Broadway debut in…

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Adam Chanler-Berat as Henry in Next To Normal. He may be lazy, a loner, a bit of a stoner, its true. But he could be perfect for ME.